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• It's tough in the mobile trenches

  Singapore Telecommunications last week shed light on the difficult industry dynamics that lay ahead of VHA, the mobile phone business being formed from the merger of Vodafone Australia and Hutchison Telecommunications.

• Sol Trujillo: The interview

  In his role as Telstra's chief executive, Sol Trujillo is the most talked about and controversial telecommunications executive in Australia. ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News.com sat down with Trujillo during a recent trip to the US to quiz him about wireless and handsets.

• RFID round-up: Still in the trough

  Despite its clear benefits in stock tracking and the success of early, isolated pilot tests in tracking high-value assets, RFID technology is still spinning its wheels as ongoing high costs and unclear return on investment continue to keep once-enthusiastic customers away in droves.

• Photos: Sydney Googleplex Under Construction

  ZDNet.com.au takes you on a tour of Google's new Sydney Googleplex, which is currently under construction. Australian Googlers will work in an environmentally friendly building, next to glamorous Sydney Harbour, with views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Tower, and the Star City Casino.

• Mobile comms: can you predict the future?

  Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.

• Photos: Datacentre heat, Google's secret solution

  When supercomputers get together, things get hot fast. Our photo gallery reveals how modern datacentres are cooled, and gives an insight into Google's secret solution to the problem.

• City of Melbourne gets singular on the desktop

  When you're in charge of buying 2,000 desktops should you go for an assortment of vendors, or stick to just one? City of Melbourne's desktop services manager, Ashe Potter, says using a single supplier is cheaper, easier and less hassle to manage.

• 10 critical physical security measures

  When it comes to IT security, physical security is the foundation for our overall strategy. We take a look at 10 of the most essential security measures you should implement now, if you haven't already done so.

• Photos: Dell launches Vostro range for small business

  Dell has introduced its new Vostro range, aimed at small businesses that require minimal IT support. Here's the full line-up available in Australia at launch.

• Don't get burned by RAID Zero

  To a computer nerd like myself, RAID refers not to a bug spray but to various ways of hooking together multiple hard disks.

• Managed services: Kinder, gentler outsourcing

  It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.

• Negroponte's laptop plan moves closer to reality

  Nicholas Negroponte is a man on a mission. As Chairman of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), he has big plans ahead of him: to help eliminate poverty through education, via US$100 laptops distributed to the world's poorest children.

• How PC placement affects system health

  Jeff Dray from ZDNet Australia sister site TechRepublic describes some of the stranger setups he's encountered in the field and offers recommendations for placing a PC so that it has a long, healthy life.

• How corporate Australia battles information overload

  We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

• MIT's open communications campaigner

  Andrew Lippman thinks communities will be key to the future of communications tech.

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