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• iiNet customers face outage

  Customers of Australian ISP, iiNet, faced a five hour service outage last night reportedly caused by an electrical storm.

• Massive roll-out: NSW Education picks Win7

  When more than 200,000 student laptops for the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution go out to NSW schools, they will be running Windows 7 instead of Windows XP as first announced, following a successful trial in three schools.

• Nathan Rees wants NBN HQ too

  The NSW Government has jumped on the National Broadband Network bandwagon, pushing to have the headquarters of the planned government corporation within its borders.

• Sydney power outage kills e-health systems

  Doctors in hospitals within Sydney's west had to temporarily turn back to pen and paper on Saturday when their electronic health record systems went offline, while more lost access to email.

• Alleged Wolverine pirate arrested

  NSW police have arrested a 38-year-old woman for allegedly burning and selling pirated DVDs, including new film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, according to a music industry group.

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  Sick of broken tender sites

  Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.

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• Top tech jobs for 2006

  After years in the wilderness, the Australian IT industry is again booming as major industries invest heavily in their IT infrastructure. Find out which skills are most in demand and how much remuneration to expect.

• Can the government solve its IT woes?

  Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

• AU companies regain interest in humbled, cheaper tech execs

  A sharp rise in private sector demand for IT executives' heralds good news for the beleaguered sector, despite an overall decline in the number of jobs advertised for IT management.

• Australian IT exec job market slumps

  Demand for IT executives in June fell by 26 percent compared to May, cancelling out the gains made in the earlier month, according to E.L. Consult.

• Managed services: Kinder, gentler outsourcing

  It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.

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• UPDATE: Qld government muscles carriers into better coverage

  The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".

• Practical nanotechnology

  Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?

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