Coonan announces $1.9 billion network
National ICT minister Helen Coonan today launched the $1.9 billion Australia Connected infrastructure initiative to roll-out ADSL 2+ and WiMAX to 99 percent of Australia by 2009.
Stories by Darren Pauli
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Telstra set to axe 13 call centres and 12,000 jobs by 2010
Tasmanian Coalition members and senators today lobbied Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo to keep its Launceston call centre open, amid plans to shut down 13 centres and axe 12,000 jobs by 2010.
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Software developers opt for off-the-shelf
Australian consultant, trainer and enterprise software solutions developer Object Consulting has ceased creating in-house applications in exchange for an off-the-shelf professional services package.
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Hundreds of local CA jobs survive chopping block
Up to 600 Australian jobs have been saved from the chopping block in the immediate term as CA completes a massive retructure that inolved axing 1700 staff across the globe.
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CRM still secret sauce for contact centres
The lack of a consolidated desktop and CRM application is the most glaring hole in the contact centre industry, according to observers.
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Gartner says virtualization too expensive
Businesses will need to open their wallets if they want to be technology leaders as virtualization is expensive, Gartner analyst, Thomas Bittman said yesterday.
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Queensland government defends Microsoft standardization
Despite criticism for maintaining Microsoft's Windows XP, the Queensland government is planning to extend its standardization efforts to databases and servers.
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Storage Networking World powers off
Event management firm Terrapinn is facing revenue loss from the cancellation of the lucrative Storage Networking World (SNW) exhibition, scheduled to run on August 28 this year as part of a three-year contract.
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IT managers unfazed by XP cut-off
Despite Microsoft's plan to phase out OEM shipments of Windows XP in a bid to push customers to Vista, Australian IT managers said they are sticking with the older operating system even if the software giant pulls support.
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Australian IT security professionals set to embark on huge spending spree
The Australian security software market is set to rise a staggering 53 percent by 2010, as vendors continue to binge on acquisitions to provide more bundled offerings, and users beef-up security infrastructure to combat new threats.
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Death knell chimes for WEP
Australian IT security managers today vowed they would never rely on the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol especially after the release of new research this week showing it can be cracked in as little as three seconds.
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Want to know where the action is? Try the data centre
An onslaught of tech activity has pushed the data centre to the forefront of all the IT action.
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Playstations take up server spill
A new virtual hosting solution has been launched that draws on spare processing power from multiple devices and platforms to reduce the cost of provisioning additional servers.
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Rootkits outfox old-school malware protection
Security experts now believe that trojan, spam and malware protection software cannot adequately prevent system compromise by increasingly sophisticated rootkits.
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Getting metrics right in the test factory
Compuware Corporation launched its quality assurance solution Test Factory last week to improve the efficiency of software testing.
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