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Queensland interim state government CIO Peter Grant and CTO Bob Gurnett tell ZDNet Australia they're making progress on statewide ICT reforms announced last year.
Ovum's David Kennedy says Australia can have a world-leading telecommunications regime if it wants one.
Eric Benhamou, former chief executive of both 3Com and Palm, has just joined the board of Finjan and taken a minority stake in the web security company through his venture capital fund, Benhamou Global Ventures.
Telstra is determined to create new sources of revenue by investing in new IP infrastructure and building managed offerings around the integration of infrastructure and services. This means turning the company into a new kind of business -- with major implications for the whole economy.
Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?
Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop.
Yes, says iiNet, and the telco giant's price chains are keeping smaller players from venturing down the rural broadband route.
Big Blue seeks higher, more profitable ground in the market for business computing services.
The Australian Computer Society plans to meet government officials to highlight the urgent need for immigration reform but its proposal lacks substantive data and this could only hurt the society.
Nathan Myhrvold is looking for a few smart people to conjure up new ideas and profitable patents. What's wrong with that?
No longer playing catch-up, AMD sees an opportunity to race ahead of bigger rival Intel, says CTO Fred Weber.
Competitors will try to use uncertainty to win customers from HP, analysts predict. It's not yet clear whether they will succeed.
Harvard president's comments reignite debate over women in computer science, with reformers trying to reverse guy-centric patterns.
What does the recent election result mean to those of us in the IT industry, and Australian employees in general?
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