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    Telstra claims it has been inundated with hundreds of entries for its research and development talent quest to be judged in November by the telco's chief technology officer.

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    Sydney Water has decided to migrate its email platform from Novell's GroupWise to Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and is looking for a contractor to help implement the change.

  • Gartner worker wants best job in world

    A Brisbane contractor working for technology analyst firm Gartner has emerged as one of the finalists for Tourism Queensland's Best Job in the World contest.

  • Google feels the Force with Salesforce deal

    Today Salesforce.com announced a "global strategic alliance" (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs.

  • Teachers get $12m to learn how to use computers

    With hardware commitments for schools in place, Minister for Education Julia Gillard has now announced funding to train teachers up on how to use their new kit.

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    All I want for Xmas is Telstra pricing

    Five consecutive days without broadband has led me to what seemed at the time to be an act of desperation: contemplating signing up for Telstra's 100Mbps cable modem service.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Can not-so-smart meters help the NBN?

    It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Tasmanian NBN: Small step or a giant leap?

    Like the engineers that sat down on day one with an empty blackboard and a mission to get man to the moon and back, building the NBN from the ground up is a daunting and complex opportunity that will present more than its share of challenges.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The resection we had to have

    Pigs are flying in flocks as Telstra has a change of heart on separation. Given the vitriol of the past few years, Rudd and Conroy deserve credit for bypassing the copper loop and, in so doing, bringing Australia's most big-mouthed telco in line at last.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN: Now we are Tolkien

    Like the one ring of Sauron, the power of Telstra's copper loop twists the minds of its ever-scheming board, which hid in its Collins Street boardroom until it was wrenched from its grasp by the forces of deregulation and the undead armies of ACCC head Graeme Samuel.

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  • Fujitsu Design Collection 2008

    Fujitsu shows off some sleek concept designs that never hit the market, and the brand new P series at the de de ce showroom in Sydney.

  • Securing Microsoft 2: hackers invited to Redmond

    In part two of 'Securing Microsoft', we learn how the company slowly became more intimate with the security community. Microsoft's slow shift to focus more on security came to a head with Vista, with more money spent in securing Vista than anybody has ever been invested into securing any piece of software before.

  • Sun rises on xVM stategy

    Sun Microsystems' xVM virtualisation efforts are getting louder and louder.

  • 10 mobile trends: Should you care?

    silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?

  • Victoria's single sign-on a study in integration

    A AU$6 million integration project will soon give Victorian businesses easier access to the government departments they need. David Braue weighs in on one of Australia's largest single sign-on deployments.

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    AOC's latest 19-inch monitor from its Jenio range has brilliant colours and great ergonomics, but we would have liked to have seen a faster refresh rate than 60Hz at its native resolution.

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    This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.

  • Samsung G600

    Designed as a phone first, the slimline G600 is an excellent camera phone if you don't mind going without a slew of features available in its competition.

  • Samsung E590

    Samsung's teeny tiny E590 packs a whole lot of features into a fuss-free candy bar model.

  • Norton PartitionMagic 8

    If you need to partition your live hard drive, Norton PartitionMagic 8 is still the application to beat.

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