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  • Telstra busted rigging user surveys

    Telstra has confessed to rigging a ZDNet Australia survey which questions whether its Internet service provides value for money, just days after its ramped up Net access toll fell under the investigation of the competition watchdog for possible breaches of the Trade Practices Act.

  • Chain e-mail fires up ABC Online poll

    A chain e-mail initiated yesterday sparked an overwhelming response to an ABC online poll about Australian involvement in a possible war against Iraq.

  • UPDATE: No Telstra apology for Net survey rigging

    Caught in the act rigging ZDNet online user surveys last week, Telstra is deliberating over offering a formal apology saying it can’t control the actions of its employees.

  • Interactive voting specialist in doghouse over Big Brother

    It's the worst nightmare of any company involved in the tech and telecommunications industries.

  • Poll: Users still snared by email worms

    The recent hype surrounding viruses such as the menacing SirCam and Code Red worms has still not deterred users from clicking on those curious emails appearing in their inboxes, according to a ZDNet reader poll.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Internet killed the (digital) radio star

    During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    MyPerfect.com.au has potential

    Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    It seemed like a good idea at the time

    Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Choosing a vote: as easy as O-E-C-D?

    Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    What can the UK iPhone show Australia?

    With the iPhone freshly launched in Europe, only now are we starting to get an idea of the true extent of Apple's power over the mobile operators.

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  • Aust enterprises assess Web services

    Web services are being touted as offering a wide range of benefits to organisations. But are Australian CIOs and IT managers in the implementation stage, or still assessing the options?

  • The power of Net words

    Many business Web sites try to impress visitors with the latest in multimedia effects and high powered graphics. As ZDNet Australia found, however, they might be ignoring the most powerful lure - good old-fashioned words.

  • Fine-tuning Web performance

    How do you know if your Web site is working properly, attracting the right audience and giving them what they need? Follow this guide to streamlining and fine-tuning your site's performance.

  • Web services: Messiah or mirage?

    Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? ZDNet Australia explores the state of Web services today.

  • Why CIOs aren't nuts for Chrome

    Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox.

Reviews (15)

  • Zaplet: Cut Down on In-Box Clutter

    Fire Drop's Zaplet Web service can help you reduce in-box clutter and eliminate long e-mail threads by letting you collaborate with others via e-mail using a single Zaplet message.

  • Apple iPod Nano (3rd generation)

    Honey, I shrunk the iPod! The new nano has all the features of its big brother, the Classic, but in a smaller package with fewer gigabytes.

  • Apple iPod Classic

    The name suggests more of the same but with more space and better value. Hard disk lag issues, video out controversy and just okay sound stop it from being a true classic though.

  • BigPond not up to scratch?

    Reading over the results from the Australian Broadband Survey for 2004 confirms what many ZDNet Australia readers have written about over the past year: Telstra drastically needs to improve its BigPond service.

  • Age has not wearied them

    Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

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