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  • Wotif CEO wins $500k cash bonus

    Wotif chief executive Robbie Cooke's total remuneration rose by an astronomical $412,567 over the past year as he picked up a $500,000 performance cash bonus for his services.

  • NBN chief Quigley's pay: $1.95 million

    Executive chairman and chief executive of NBN Co Limited Mike Quigley will receive $1.95 million a year for his efforts.

  • Telstra exec: Thodey as aggressive as Sol

    Announcing a new mobile fleet management product with Microsoft today, Telstra general manager product management Ross Fielding said that new Telstra CEO David Thodey went after goals just as aggressively as former CEO Sol Trujillo.

  • NBN bill worries infrastructure players

    Representatives of Australian critical infrastructure providers have expressed concern that delivering information to the government under its amended National Broadband Network legislation could be costly and conflict with anti-terrorism rules.

  • gStepOne wins CeBIT/ZDNet innovation award

    ZDNet Australia hosted the third annual Emerging Technology Innovation Awards in conjunction with CeBIT 2009.

Blogs (5)

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Broadband hearing unplugged (day 1)

    Earlier this week (Tuesday 3 March) a number of telecommunications industry heavyweights fronted up to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?

    Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Is running Windows XP on ATMs stupid?

    When creating a secure, locked down IT system for something that is directly responsible for handling cash transactions would you choose the most popular, most targeted operating system?

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    The true cost of analysis

    When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Unscripted shower rattled Trujillo

    Like many reporters engaged in the shady business of covering the Australian telecommunications sector, I spent Friday, 6 October, at Telstra's mammoth eight hour investor briefing in Sydney.

Features and Case Studies (39)

  • HP has no respect for EDS

    Hewlett-Packard's contemptuous termination of the 47-year-old EDS brand in a five-paragraph statement filled with marketing hogwash today is a colossal mistake and one the company will live to regret.

  • Mike Quigley: The background check

    Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.

  • Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

    Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

  • HTC Touch Diamond lands Down Under

    HTC has announced the Australian availability of the Touch Diamond in Sydney today, with the phone set to hit these shores between the end of July and early August.

  • Can CEO-in-waiting give AMD a jumpstart?

    Company president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer is being groomed to succeed Hector Ruiz, but first he must prove that last year's engineering mistakes were an aberration.

Reviews (13)

  • Mozilla burns to prove Firefox worthy

    After eight months of rapid growth, Firefox approaches its 1.0 release with new challenges in converting IE users. Additional reading: IE is evolving, but is it enough?

  • Would $100 iPod compete or cannibalise?

    With rumours rife that Apple Computer will unveil a US$100 music player at Macworld Expo next month, analysts are split on the likelihood--and wisdom--of such a move.

  • Voice over IP + wireless LAN = ?

    It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.

  • We need more mobile providers

    The mobile phone industry, often accused of having too many players for the size of the market, may have found a new -- and more sensible -- way to operate in Australia.

  • IBM microscope sees reactions in action

    A breakthrough for using electron microscopes from IBM is allowing scientists to observe the secret life of atoms.

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