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  • Surprise group wins $4.7bn NBN deal

    The Federal Government has awarded its $4.7 billion National Broadband Network contract to a secretive consortium backed by the wealthy Packer and Murdoch families.

  • New Telstra CEO: Top 10 most likely

    We scoured the world to find the best and have detailed the top 10 candidates we consider most likely to succeed Sol Trujillo as the chief executive of Telstra.

  • Civica in local acquisitions

    British software provider Civica today claimed to have acquired an 80 per cent market share in IT services for Queensland councils after the acquisition of Practical Computer Services.

  • Britain promises broadband for all

    The British government has revealed plans to create a universal service commitment for broadband that would see every last one of the UK's broadband blackspots filled in.

  • BT to shed 10,000 workers

    British telco BT this week revealed plans to let go of 10,000 workers by the end of March 2009.

  • Gershon slams govt technocrats

    British efficiency expert Sir Peter Gershon has suggested agency budget cuts totalling $540 million, castigating the federal public sector for poor governance mechanisms on technology projects and an ICT spending model which gave individual departments and agencies too much autonomy.

  • Why CIOs aren't nuts for Chrome

    Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox.

  • Hacker talks fooling e-passport systems

    The researcher who claims to have created code that can emulate and clone e-passports has given details of the purported hack.

  • Dutch researcher claims e-passport hack

    A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.

  • CIOs not testing Chrome

    Despite the hype, it seems few IT departments are testing Google's recently launched Web browser Chrome yet.

  • ATO delays Change Program schedule

    The Australian Taxation Office has pushed back the completion date for its $724 million IT Change Program by 18 months in order to comply with new government requirements and allow more bedding down time for major updates.

  • Exchange 2007 delay for UK health

    The UK National Health Service has warned hundreds of thousands of staff that it has been forced to push back an email upgrade to Microsoft's Exchange 2007 to next year.

  • Queen to visit Google London HQ

    Queen Elizabeth II is to visit search giant Google's London headquarters in October, as the monarch accepts an invitation following the success of her YouTube channel.

  • Hadron Collider gets hacked

    Hackers have reportedly broken into a computer system at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, targeting a system that was "one step away" from a control computer, but otherwise appear to have done no major damage.

  • Video: History of British PCs

    The cash-strapped UK National Museum of Computing is home to an exhibition of the evolution of British PCs.

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