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• EDS employees maintain conditions

  Employees of HP Enterprise Services, formerly known as EDS, have mainly now moved onto new HP contracts with equivalent conditions, according to the integrator's most active union, the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia.

• ANZ boosts offshore jobs, IT spend

  Australia and New Zealand Banking Group chief executive Mike Smith said today he'd look to harbour more of its operations offshore in the future as he also discussed details of the bank's beefed up technology spend.

• NBN critic Concept Economics goes bust

  Concept Economics, the consultancy that recently estimated the costs of the National Broadband Network outweighed the benefits by up to $20 billion, has gone into administration.

• Telstra suffers nationwide web outage

  Telstra's internet services suffered a nationwide outage this morning for around one hour, according to its spokesperson.

• Qantas IT jobs head to IBM

  Around 200 of Qantas's IT staff will reportedly be offered jobs at IBM as the airline outsources yet more of its technology function.

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  2009 funding drought rolls on

  For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.

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  Australia snares Silicon Valley wireless start-up

  Silicon Valley-based wireless technology start-up Quantenna Communications is planning to open a 30 to 50-person research facility in Australia following an injection of venture capital by the Australian-US fund Southern Cross Venture Partners.

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  The elbow that drained Adelaide

  Has Australia entered a new era of mature engagement when setting requirements for outsourcing deals? Should Australian banks create regional IT hubs rather than offshore? And what could have happened to drain Adelaide's Torrens River weir? All these questions and more are answered in Patch Monday.

• Cop it sweet

  Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.

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  Google's ocean datacentre plans a tad fishy?

  Google has always enjoyed being secretive about its largely custom-built data centres, so I imagine there are a few furrowed brows following the widespread reports about its application for a patent to build offshore datacentres, which could draw their power from the ocean waves.

Features and Case Studies (128)

• Will ANZ Bank ever appoint a new CIO?

  Is Australia and New Zealand Banking Group suffering from a lack of strategic IT leadership as its year-long search for a new chief information officer drags on?

• Changing of the guard: Westpac

  Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

• Australia's dotcom pioneers: Where are they now?

  Ten years ago they were the young turks of Australia's business community; radical free-thinkers on the path to fame and riches. Shortly after, all those dreams came crashing down. But where are Australia's first dotcom moguls today, and what are they up to?

• Changing of the guard: ANZ Bank

  Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's technology operation in the third of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

• Bringing Telstra into the NBN fold

  Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan had it right when he said that the new National Broadband Network would be a commercial failure unless there was only one network that included Telstra's fixed-line assets.

Reviews (2)

• Kodak EasyShare LS633

  Kodak's LS633 boasts a highly impressive OLED display along with a host of other features that should endear it to most consumers. What's more, it's available in Australia before anywhere else on the planet. Check out our Australian review.

• 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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