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  • Qld's Stanwell plans new datacentres

    Queensland state-owned energy supplier Stanwell Corporation this week revealed plans to build two new Tier 3 datacentres; plans that should be upgraded, according to one analyst.

  • Qld Govt shrinks Transformation tender

    The Queensland Government has gone to market for a smaller than expected raft of technology and services to lay the foundation for a centrally managed government-wide data platform, which it hopes will be ready by 2010.

  • Aussies buy two Sun Blackboxes

    Sun Microsystems has sold two of its Project Blackbox "datacentre in a shipping container" products in Australia over the last year, the company revealed last week.

  • Alcatel-Lucent bags $10m AAPT deal

    Alcatel-Lucent has bagged a $10 million deal with AAPT to provide routing hardware and services at the network edge, the next step in AAPT's network overhaul.

  • RBA criticises payments innovation

    Australia's central bank has criticised the nation's four largest commercial banks for shirking on investments in payment systems technology, resulting in a lack of innovation and neglect of systems like EFTPOS.

  • When do we declare Google a monopoly?

    I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google.

  • IBM's goes modular for 'green' datacentre design

    IBM claims its latest modular datacentre design can help cut energy bills by 50 per cent.

  • Apple answers call for iPhone applications

    Apple wowed the cell phone industry a year ago with the first version of the iPhone. And now its new software development kit and soon-to-be-launched application store featuring third-party applications could change the game yet again.

  • Microsoft releases more XAML details

    Microsoft on Tuesday made more technical information available for XAML, a language for designing the user interface of Web and Windows applications.

  • Microsoft and Eclipse cosy up on Java

    Microsoft will begin collaborating with the Eclipse Foundation to improve native Windows application development on Java.

  • Rio Tinto invests AU$10.5m for WA Uni's mining tech

    Rio Tinto is upping its investment in mining technology by entering into an AU$10.5 million partnership with Curtin University of Technology in Perth.

  • Microsoft goes limp as OOXML vote nears

    Microsoft's top executives have promised not to sue open source developers who create non-commercial software based on Microsoft's protocols, but skeptics say it's a ploy to soften its image before the upcoming OOXML vote.

  • Quarter of all Aussie software is illegal

    Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.

  • RFID supply chain hobbled by closed loop mentality

    Despite companies such as Wal-Mart introducing cross-company supply chain RFID, most enterprises are keeping the track-and-trace tech within the family, according to one RFID vendor.

  • Intel, IBM stalwart despite US recession fears

    Despite fear of a US recession, reports from IBM and Intel for 2008 show the technology industry isn't ready to mimic the banking industry's financial woes just yet.

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