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Australia's communications regulator will carry out its testing overwhelmingly in the populous eastern states, particularly New South Wales, as it judges whether Telstra's new national 3G mobile network provides equal coverage to the previous CDMA one.
The nation's third-largest Internet service provider today started offering its long-awaited Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to the public, billing it as a free second phone line.
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Australia's top information technology decision-makers have a limited understanding of open source and very low awareness of open source products other than Linux, according to a leading analyst.
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Your data is important to you, but do you know if others are trying to get at it? ZDNet Australia investigates.
With lowering LCD prices, and the gap between notebook processors and desktop ones getting ever slimmer, conventional wisdom says that the humble desktop PC is headed for the same place as 5 1/4in floppies and people who actually liked Myst.
No recount needed here: Microsoft Office has a mandate. Whether the voters spoke with their pocketbooks or Microsoft crushed competition with predatory practices is immaterial; the fact is, more small businesses run on Office than any other suite. The second and most recent beta version of Office 10, the hopefully temporary name for the next edition of the suite, came out last month. The suite is far from ready for release -- it's too flaky and way too slow for work-a-day chores and chews up system resources faster than Jim Carrey changes personalities -- but from what I've seen so far, Office 10 shows some small business smarts in four areas.
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