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  • E-way "human error" costs beep tag users AU$100

    A changeover error transferring beep tag customer accounts to E-way systems has caused some people, who thought they had closed their toll accounts, to be falsely charged AU$100.

  • WA utility takes remote control of customers' aircon

    Western Australian energy company Western Power has reduced peak power energy use by 27 percent, or 3.5kW per home, by remotely switching off the compressors in trial customers' air conditioning units for a few minutes.

  • Satellite killed the radio comms in $21m WA network

    Medical information will soon be shooting across Western Australia's regional expanses, with the development of a new AU$21.3 million medical communications network which will cover 2.55 million square kilometres and reach 454,000 people.

  • WA's Perth to be the Aussie Silicon Valley?

    Western Australia is to sport Australia's own Silicon Valley, according to state Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan, who yesterday revealed the country's biggest technology park will be based in Perth.

  • WA calls for broadband vendors

    The Western Australian state government today invited private sector groups to register their interest in building its planned AU$1 billion statewide broadband network (SBN).

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  • How do CIOs keep up with technology?

    Keeping up with changing technologies means CIOs have to go through a mountain of information, and then decide which of it — if any — is useful to their company. ZDNet.com.au delves into how they do it.

  • The CIO time bomb

    Obian President John Logan says that CIOs still don't know what's expected from them under the new Sarbanes-Oxley rules.

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  • Frequent fliers: The biometric guinea pigs

    Before he starts work every day, Oscar Carranza places his hand in a biometric scanner that traces the contours of his palm and compares them to digital records in the airport's central database.

  • IBM embraces wireless for Australian PC launch

    IBM has embraced wireless LAN technology at the Australian launch of its new PC range.

  • Bleak forecast for PC vendors

    Australian computer vendors can expect poor sales for the second quarter of 2001, according to forecasts outlined in a report on the PC market's performance, released by IT industry analysts International Data Corporation (IDC).

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