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    The Northern Territory's Power and Water Corporation has started the search for a chief information officer (CIO) to help it provide IT in "some of the harshest conditions on the planet".

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    Vodafone's 3G network coverage in Perth has now been restored after an 11-hour outage caused by "routine network maintenance".

  • Full steam ahead for CSG

    Darwin-based IT services group CSG today revealed it had bucked the global financial crisis and rapidly expanded its business in a period that saw some of its rivals suffer headwinds.

  • Telecom NZ engineers strike

    Industrial action by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) in New Zealand has seen over a hundred engineers on Auckland's North Shore walk out of their jobs in a lightning strike.

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    Datacom announced today that it had won a two-year multimillion dollar deal with mining group Xstrata to provide an IT service desk to over 2000 users.

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    As we embark on a new year, the industry hype-machine is slowly warming up to sell us new technologies that will make our jobs easier in 2007. Rest assured though that some problems will remain, like spam.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    The horror of random connections

    If you're one of those people who likes to complain whenever their Wi-Fi connection even temporarily flickers, then being forced to use older connectivity technologies is a useful reminder of how much we have to be intermittently grateful for.

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  • Why Australia's Pirate Party won't get elected

    Many would love to see the Pirate Party and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy face off in the Australian Senate, but the unorthodox political party doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the necessary votes.

  • Why Healthscope picked Technology One

    The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.

  • 3m learner drivers' details lost by UK govt

    The Driving Standards Agency has admitted losing over three million learner drivers' details.

  • Network horror stories expose need for understanding

    As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Here we expose just how wrong it can go and ask leading industry figures to light the way towards effective network management.

  • Sony's brave Sir Howard

    Sony has been in the news a lot in the last year, but mostly for the wrong reasons.

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    Bearable 14-hour international flights? With these Bose noise-cancelling headphones to cut down the engine noise, we may have found a jetlag antidote.

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    The only way to prevent future outbreaks is for us all to work together. Here's why.

  • Apple unveils smaller iPod, new software

    Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs kicked off Macworld Expo on Tuesday in the U.S. by announcing a smaller iPod music player, new multimedia software and an update to Microsoft's Office package.

  • Advantage Plex 5.1

    Advantage Plex is a development tool for Windows, J2EE and iSeries 400 environments.

  • Samsung E700

    Dual displays and a camera with multiple shot capabilities top the feature set of the E700. Read our Australian review.

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