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    The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has announced a new board of directors who it says will be leading the ICT business community throughout the next 12 months.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The more things change...

    With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.

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    Conroy faces a showdown at the FTTN corral

    Say what you will about Senator Stephen Conroy, but he is clearly not a man afraid of confrontation. Well, he'd better not be, because by killing off the OPEL WiMax project he has just set himself up for a battle with Telstra of Biblical proportions or a big meal of crow washed down with a $4.7 billion gift to SingTel Optus.

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    ADSL2+ at last but at what cost?

    Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.

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    Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.

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  • How corporate Australia battles information overload

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    MPC Computers has unveiled an all-in-one desktop based on a special project it did for the US government.

  • ACCC tackles mobile telephone service pricing

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) plans to review the pricing of mobile phone services, with a view to updating regulations governing the area.

  • CRTs: The price of progress

    There are about a million tonnes of glass from old CRT monitors sitting in homes and offices - all set to become waste over the next 10 years.

  • AMD unveils new chips, cuts prices

    Advanced Micro Devices has announced two new desktop microprocessors, but consumers won't be able to get them until next month.

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