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• Labor: Broadband central to Australia 2.0

  Labor leader Kevin Rudd has reinforced the importance of a high-speed national broadband network, describing it as the missing cog in the nation's future economic wheel.

• Banks eye micropayment acquisitions?

  Large banks are looking to scale their traditional payment infrastructures to handle micropayments technologies, which means they are likely to end up competing with -- or acquiring -- companies like PayPal.

• Are tech CEOs letting the industry down?

  After two-and-a-half years of malaise, why can't the people running technology companies come up with more creative responses to the downturn?

• SAP hops off .com bandwagon

  SAP has become the latest technology company to try to distance itself from the stigma of the dot-com bust by shedding the .com and e- from its product names and marketing efforts.

• 2002: the top ten in IT hype

  A big part of technology marketing is based upon pure hyperbole because the industry is selling science, and science happens to be -- for many people -- a nebulous topic.

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• Telstra between a rock and the ACCC?

  The proposed regulatory reforms ahead of the roll-out of the National Broadband Network rely on a finely balanced carrot and stick approach. But will Telstra cooperate with the government's ultimatum?

• Cranking up corporate clock speeds

  Concepts such as utility computing, Web services and business process management shouldn't be considered in isolation but rather as components of the real-time enterprise (RTE).

• Use performance appraisals to clarify expectations

  Performance appraisals shouldn't be closed-door meetings in which you lay out your employees' faults. Conducted properly, appraisals can actually help build better relationships.

• 2002: the top ten in IT hype

  A big part of technology marketing is based upon pure hyperbole because the industry is selling science, and science happens to be -- for many people -- a nebulous topic.

• Working in IT: Where has all the fun gone?

  A couple of years ago, the clock struck midnight on the IT industry and computer geeks, who had been hailed as heroes, turned back into being, well, just geeks again.

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