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• 7 more agencies seek interim datacentres

  Seven more federal government agencies, including the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, have applied to buy datacentre capacity from the government's new interim datacentre panel.

• Bank of Qld suffers EFTPOS outage

  Last weekend, some customers buying goods from merchants with Bank of Queensland EFTPOS terminals had to have their purchases processed manually after payments failed to work.

• NetBank outage hit CIO's pay

  Commonwealth Bank of Australia's extended internet banking outage earlier this year affected the remuneration of its top technology tsars, including chief information officer Michael Harte, the executive revealed today.

• Vodafone backs away from 2G advice

  Vodafone has said that advice given by one of its employees to IT labour hire firm 3W joint CEO Bruce Mills that that he should switch his BlackBerry fleet to slower 2G services to avoid drop-outs was inaccurate.

• Telstra suffers nationwide web outage

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

Blogs (10)

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  Seven vividly proves WiMax not dead yet

  It wasn't too long ago that critics of WiMax wireless technology were declaring it dead at the starting gate.

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  Can Vodafone close the rural 3G gap?

  Optus, Vodafone and Three have long struggled to match Telstra's reach outside the capital cities. Vodafone's major network upgrade is the best chance yet to dilute Next G's rural monopoly, but questions remain.

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  Datacentre disaster lessons

  As a system administrator, the health and status of your datacentre is at the forefront of your mind. But how often do you think about the needs beyond server status and bandwidth?

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  Telstra 'network vandals' sever the national security argument

  I was interested to read that Telstra had the good sense to finally hand over its network designs to the Federal government last week.

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  Are you ready for a crash landing?

  Backup plans are almost ubiquitous -- and a good thing too. But have you checked the use-by date on yours?

Features and Case Studies (80)

• 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: Commonwealth Bank

  Get an insider's look at Commonwealth Bank of Australia's technology operation with chief information officer Michael Harte in the first of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

• Telco 2008: A year in review

  2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

• ISP-level content filtering won't work

  Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a 'safer' internet experience for Australian families are likely to be met with significant resistance from within the ISP community.

• Managing data at Melbourne IT

  Managing data can be difficult, especially if you have almost 500 terabytes of storage and spend $10,000 a month on backup tapes. This case study looks at how Melbourne IT, one of Australia's biggest web hosting companies, handles storage

Reviews (21)

• Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 Beta 1

  If you spend more time fighting fires than adding business value through IT, it's time to look at this comprehensive management solution for medium businesses.

• Linksys CIT400 Skype Phone

  The Linksys CIT400 allows you to make both land-line and Skype calls, all without a PC.

• Businesses to buy into Google Apps Premier Edition?

  Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.

• Broadband: Which plan is for you?

  The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.

• Testing times with broadband

  Complacency by one Internet provider left them with a poor result in our tests but what if this wasn't a test?

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