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    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.

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    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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  • 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.

  • IT jobs on the rise: survey

    There is a growing demand for IT executives, according to an Australian jobs index.

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