NZ Opposition Labour MP Clare Curran says she has it on good authority that Communications Minister Steven Joyce met Telecom NZ CEO Paul Reynolds last week and discussed the possibility of the incumbent structurally separating its business.
Last Wednesday, Premier Bligh addressed Queenland's ICT industry at an Australian Computer Society and Australian Information Industry Association luncheon.
Communications and Digital Economy Minister Stephen Conroy will tonight release the government's roadmap for Australia's participation in the digital economy. But what does the nation's industry think of the effort?
The New Zealand Government's $15 million plan to encourage industry investment in a new Trans-Tasman fibre cable has fallen flat after industry showed little interest in taking up the initiative.
AAPT chief executive Paul Broad won't say whether he wants the top job at Telstra following the departure of Sol Trujillo, but he's got firm opinions about how he would change some of the company's operations.
Senator Stephen Conroy last week launched the Future Directions for the Digital Economy whitepaper, but the Patch Monday team believes it is more of a state-of-the-industry paper than a sign of what's to come.
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Joe the Shearer can wait. Telstra is clearly going to roll out its NBN in capital cities first, where the most customers live and, despite Telstra's assertions, many residents already have access to decent broadband.
In times of financial crisis, it's inevitable that companies reassess their financial plans.
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Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
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What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
Today's netbooks are mostly Intel Atom-powered, but that could change with the advent of VIA's Nano processor, which outperforms Intel's CPU in several areas.
Asus packs the same basic components found in other Netbooks into a stylish, slim chassis for a modest premium in price, with some unfortunate keyboard-layout compromises.
A versatile mid-range projector priced competitively for both the home and business user, the InFocus IN34 has a wide range of connectivity options, is quiet, has reasonable image quality and is portable as well.
Apple's Core 2 Duo 17-inch MacBook Pro is especially thin and light for a desktop replacement, making it an attractive choice for multimedia users on the go.
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