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  • Video: Chasing Ballmer around Sydney

    Where's Ballmer? In this video, ZDNet.com.au journalist Liam Tung chases Steve Ballmer around the streets of Sydney during the Microsoft CEO's recent trip Down Under.

  • Stemming the brain-drain

    Are we really losing our best and brightest to well paid jobs in flashy locations overseas? ZDNet Australia looks into some of the issues surrounding the country's famed IT brain drain, and uncovers some of the quiet achievers bucking the trend.

  • AIMIA award winners announced

    Winners of this year's Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA) awards were announced in Melbourne Friday night.

  • Aussie games graduates snapped up

    They're the class of 2000 -- and probably the only graduates in the world with a diploma in Game Development and Visualisation. It's enough to make company execs drool.

  • Australian dirt-track game to star on PlayStation 2

    SPIN - Sprint Car Racing, which is being developed by Adelaide-based Ratbag Games, was announced as one of the key first year titles for the new console at the American launch of the PlayStation 2 in Los Angeles this morning.

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  • Changing the Change Program's agenda

    What happens when you change the agenda of the ATO's Change Program, or program in some changes to the Agenda? Or which way actually is it? Not to mention whether there will be any change left in the budget after the program's agenda has changed.

  • Telstra: Now we are listening

    Why did Telstra recently shut down its Now We Are Talking website? The problem, according to Telstra chief executive David Thodey, was that "the other guy left it running" and everyone had got sore throats from talking too much.

  • The internet filter is a giant funnel

    With apologies to John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, ZDNet.com.au's Ratbags team has put together its own interpretation of the Federal Government's internet filtering initiative.

  • Google gets Bing'd: Video

    It's a peaceful morning at the Sydney Googleplex. The sun is shining and birds are singing. But wait a second: why are all those people wearing Microsoft Bing T-shirts?

  • Video: Will the internet run out of space?

    In late April, Australian breakfast television broke the dire revelation that the internet was near capacity and would soon be full. So with CeBIT underway, we took the opportunity to ask the punters what they thought of the impending disaster.

Videos (13)

  • Telstra: Now we are listening

    Telstra CEO David Thodey tells us why Telstra is now listening rather than talking.

  • Ellison modelling Oracle on IBM

    At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He says hed like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems.

  • Intel demos Moblin

    At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel product manager Claire Alexander shows a demo of the Linux-based, open-source operating system Moblin.

  • Conroy's internet filter is a giant funnel

    Ratbags speaks to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about the internet filtering project.

  • Google gets Bing'd

    The Ratbags ambush Google employees and offer them a free search with Microsoft's Bing.

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