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  • Coalition issues telco reform amendment

    The opposition has unveiled a scathing amendment to draft laws proposing to fundamentally restructure Telstra, in an attempt to delay the changes.

  • Telstra pips Optus on warning system

    The Victorian Government has announced that Telstra has been chosen to build a national phone-based warning system.

  • Brumby calls for patience on Satyam

    Victorian Premier John Brumby said yesterday that it was still too early to call the fate of Mahindra Satyam's planned $75 million facility in Geelong.

  • Mahindra Satyam attempts Aussie recovery

    Newly renamed Mahindra Satyam has reassured its existing local customers and is now on the market for new ones, according to the company's Australian country head. Yet rival Indian group Tata Consultancy Services is also seeking growth.

  • All-in rumble for $80m NT Govt tender

    Virtually every large technology goods and services provider in Australia has thrown their hat in the ring as the Northern Territory Government prepares to overhaul its ICT contracts in an $80 million whole of government purchasing initiative.

Blogs (33)

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    Rethink Visionstream disaster, Telecom

    Telecom needs to quickly jettison the forced Visionstream owner-operator deal for lines techies if it cares about its image.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Datacentre disaster lessons

    As a system administrator, the health and status of your datacentre is at the forefront of your mind. But how often do you think about the needs beyond server status and bandwidth?

  • E-health too unsexy for COAG

    There will always be something more politically sexy than e-health for state governments, meaning the National E-Health Transition Authority's business case for a national electronic medical record might just sit on the shelf gathering dust forever.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Weighing the price of separation

    A reader suggested a key test to structural separation to compare shareholder return for BT with that of Telstra, providing a presumptive analysis of whether separation was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. This was a great idea that I had to try.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Mission-critical now a meaningless phrase

    If you think two-thirds of your IT is mission-critical, you're either running an incredibly lean and efficient operation or you haven't got a clue how many applications you have and which ones you need to manage.

Features and Case Studies (261)

  • Netspace's green box: Caption contest

    Netspace regulatory and carrier affairs manager Matthew Phillips has a lovely big green box. But what's inside? Tell us to win a double DVD box set of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films.

  • Bringing Telstra into the NBN fold

    Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan had it right when he said that the new National Broadband Network would be a commercial failure unless there was only one network that included Telstra's fixed-line assets.

  • Conroy's big red button: Caption contest

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, a lab coat and a big red button. What could be going on here? Tell us and win a Plantronics microphone and headphone set.

  • Win MSDN subscription and REMIX tickets

    We've got a full MSDN subscription and four tickets to Microsoft's REMIX conference in Sydney next week to giveaway. Enter here!

  • Norton Antivirus: When did it get good?

    It seems that thinning down your application for greater performance has finally caught on, and bloat is being stripped away. This year's surprise contender: Norton.

Videos (2)

Reviews (85)

  • Citrix XenServer 5

    Early releases of the Xen hypervisor showed promise but had lots of rough edges. Citrix's XenServer 5, however, is very much a production-class virtualisation solution with features that match, and in some cases exceed, what's available on rival platforms.

  • Netgear 5GHz Wireless-N Networking Kit

    They're big and quite ugly, but there's no doubting that Netgear's WNHDEB111 delivers in the 802.11n speed stakes finally!

  • Iomega StorCenter Pro NAS 450r

    The StorCenter Pro NAS 450r is a generously-specified appliance running Windows Storage Server 2003. While it scores on performance, it's pricey and lacks capacity.

  • Universal Imaging Utility 3.5

    Universal Imaging Utility is an excellent utility that could prove invaluable to larger businesses looking to reduce the time required for image creation and deployment. However, the software has limitations, including lack of support for Windows Server installations.

  • Exchange Server 2007 SP1

    Service Pack 1 (SP1) reinstates a lot of the functionality that Microsoft left out in order to get Exchange Server 2007 out of the door last year.

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