Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner yesterday said he didnt know how long it would take to reignite IT spending in Canberra following the Gershon review.
Troubled network hardware maker Nortel Networks today said it had made the role of its Australia and New Zealand chief Mark Stevens redundant and he would not be replaced.
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Nortel has reassured Australian customers that it's business as usual for its local operation, despite filing for bankruptcy protection in North America and entering administration in the United Kingdom.
Hewlett-Packard and EDS are expected to shortly detail which executives will lead their now combined Australian operation following HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant over the past several months.
In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
May fever has hit New Zealand's mobile carriers. Telecom New Zealand and Vodafone both have big initiatives under way ... and is that three? NZ Communications (formerly Econet) kicks off a third competitive network to give the big guns nightmares.
Plans by the Australian Tax Office to track the purchase and sale of investment properties might make a few money-minded Australians nervous, but they represent a potential bonanza for storage vendors and business intelligence firms.
Bill Zikou is coming back after five years in the Balkans to head up Ericsson Australia ... but is he up to the task?
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Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?
Australia's IT services market has come through its relatively mild financial crisis relatively unscathed, and certainly in much better shape than it could have ever anticipated.
Microsoft Wave. That's like naming your new car the Ford Prius. Why go head-to-head with Google armed only with a glossy catalogue?
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What will the impact of NSW Premier Nathan Rees' ambitious agency consolidation plans be on the state's public sector ICT workers and infrastructure?
MSI's VR603 is a perfectly fine budget laptop marred by the use of the Sentelic touchpad.
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With webOS, Palm goes past matching its competitors and offers something more. The Pre might not be a home run, but it is an indication of good things to come.
If you've seen last year's ThinkPad X300, there are very few surprises in store here, as the X301 is simply a Centrino 2 update.
Nervous Dell owners around the world are scrutinising their battery packs and wondering if their laptop is one step away from bursting into a high-tech inferno. Other laptop owners also have to wonder if their systems might also be affected by faulty lithium-ion batteries. Here's what you need to know.
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