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  • WA budget: Synergy to create IT dept

    Western Australia's largest energy retailer Synergy stated in yesterday's Western Australian State Budget that it plans to establish its own IT environment.

  • Optus cuts off WA-S'pore Net peering deal

    Singapore Telecommunications and its Australian subsidiary, Optus, have terminated an Internet peering arrangement with the Western Australian Internet Association's WAIX exchange, citing "a global network consolidation plan".

  • Telstra moves to placate Australia's west

    With regional Australia continuing to protest federal government plans to privatise the remainder of Telstra, the telecommunications heavyweight has boosted efforts to appease residents in the remote west.

  • WA confirms Roche as shared services chief

    The Western Australia Department of Treasury and Finance's mammoth shared services initiative received formal leadership late last year, it was revealed today, with acting executive director Brian Roche being permanently appointed to the position.

  • WA ISPs lash Internet filtering proposal

    Western Australia's peak Internet service providers' body has slammed proposals by the Opposition Liberal Party to legally force ISPs to filter the Internet for adult content as "populist but ridiculous".

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  • Metadata drives WA legal eagles

    IT director Bob Berg tells ZDNet Australia how Western Australia's Department of Attorney-General and Corrective Services overcame complex document management for 40 separate Web sites.

  • IT contracting: making a comeback?

    The demand for IT contractors in Australia is growing, according to one recruiter who credits the resurgence to businesses freezing permanent staff numbers.

  • How IT is saving Pilbara's Aboriginal languages

    Creating and cataloguing recordings of indigenous languages is a challenging enough technology task, but the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre had some additional barriers to overcome: creaky IT systems, a depleting base of native speakers and the ever-present threat of cyclones.

  • Blades of gold -- a virtual migration

    Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines is in the process of moving its IT infrastructure from a fleet of traditional servers to virtual servers running on blade hardware.

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

Reviews (2)

  • Telstra boosts Next G reach

    Telstra has unveiled an upgrade to its Next G mobile high-speed data network that it claims has delivered download speeds of up to 2.3Mbps at a range of 200km.

  • Finding "The fastest P4 system in Australia"

    With the Australian launch of the Intel Pentium 4, we decided it would be a good idea to run a competition to find the fastest system in Australia based on the Intel Pentium 4 processor and retailing under AU$7,000.

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