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  • Gillard chides Telstra on AWAs

    Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday said it was not in Telstra's interests to squeeze the last drop of "bitter lemon" from the Work Choices legislation in its dealings with employees.

  • Google closes DoubleClick deal - expect job cuts

    European antitrust regulators on Tuesday approved Google's US$3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick, which Google's CEO said will mean job cuts.

  • Q&A: Acting Queensland CIO, Alan Chapman

    Alan Chapman, acting CIO for the Queensland government talks to ZDNet.com.au about what makes his job unique, technologies on the way and the biggest threat to his organisation.

  • Mobile ads: A threat to your privacy?

    Your mobile phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like.

  • US presidential election 2008: Barack Obama talks tech

    Iraq, immigration, taxes, and healthcare probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US presidential campaign. IT has made nary an appearance -- so what do the candidates think on the subject of technology?

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could you believe in Steve?

    For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    From search to aggregation addiction

    Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    The Bangla village way of Web 2.0

    The Web 2.0 meme is percolating through all manner of media and has now reached as far as Bangladesh.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    David Havyatt: AAPT exec, blogger

    Add two more Oz telecomms bloggers to the list: AAPT's regulatory affairs chieftan David Havyatt, and Optus/Cisco/everywhere veteran Laurel Papworth.

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  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • The bonfire of online vanities: Web 2.0 critic speaks

    Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.

  • Collaborators at Google -- and beyond

    Charles Cooper says the tech industry should move beyond its take-it or leave-it approach to trade and human rights.

  • RFID: Can it help your business?

    In 10 years almost everything will be tagged, say the experts. So what are these little chips that are soon to be so pervasive, and how will they take over your business?

  • Uncloaking the US Patriot Act

    More information is dribbling out about the exercise of extraordinary powers granted to federal police since Sept 11. We unmask the Patriot Act.

Reviews (2)

  • Spyware cures may cause more harm

    Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: So-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase.

  • Why MS software is driving me nuts

    COMMENTARY--What is it with Microsoft and incomprehensible error messages? Why can't its programs explain what's wrong in plain English? And that's not my only MS complaint--stand back and let me gripe.

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