Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced round two of the National Secondary School Computer Fund today, saying it would deliver 141,600 new computers to 1,394 schools around the country.
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting over the weekend proved lucrative for IT, with the National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) receiving $218 million to continue its operations and state governments receiving an extra $807 million towards the federal government's computers in schools vision.
Dear Mr Rudd, it's wonderful that you've joined Twitter. Of course Mr Turnbull was here a month before you, but Twitter has been around more than two years. You're both complete n00bs. May I offer some tips?
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for the NSW state government to toe the line on the federal plan to provide computers to all schools nationwide.
Australia's creaky technology unions have finally awoken from their long slumber and have started to throw their weight around.
Finally, after months of the Clintons posting Sopranos-style satires and Obama Girl grabbing the headlines during the American presidential race, Australian politicians have switched on to the power of the Internet.
In the year leading up to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's $43 billion National Broadband Network decision, a group of chief executives was quietly working away at winning over important members of federal cabinet to the merits of a digital economy.
The Australian Taxation's Change Program (which is best suited perhaps for simple formulaic tax collections, not complex audit, analysis and interpretation work) may collapse under its own dead weight.
Dear Mr Rudd, it's wonderful that you've joined Twitter. Of course Mr Turnbull was here a month before you, but Twitter has been around more than two years. You're both complete n00bs. May I offer some tips?
When developing your company's virus protection strategy, don't forget that Linux and Unix systems need to be protected as well.
The changing economic climate is taking its toll on Australian IT contractors, as they struggle to pull in the dollars they were 18 months ago.
Today's netbooks are mostly Intel Atom-powered, but that could change with the advent of VIA's Nano processor, which outperforms Intel's CPU in several areas.
AMD's Phenom II processor is designed to boost the company's presence in the desktop market. But how does it fare against Intel's latest Core i7 (Nehalem) chip?
AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to exploit the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet's tests show that they have made up important ground on Intel's Xeons.
Intel's new Nehalem architecture features an integrated memory controller and runs two threads per CPU core. Our extensive benchmark tests reveal how well the new quad-core processors perform in practice.
Payphone manufacturer and operator TriTel today unveiled a new payphone that offers Internet access, e-mail, Web browsing and SMS messaging.
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