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    Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer is in Sydney to meet with key customers and partners, and give corporate executives the Redmond view of "innovation with impact".

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    Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer rates customer inertia ahead of open-source software and search titan Google as Redmond's greatest competition.

  • Google in sight as Ballmer vows .NET push

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET interoperability efforts with IBM and Sun have slowed, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google.

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    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may not have quelled all customer concerns while in Australia, but partners said they were encouraged by his vision of the future.

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    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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    Storage is a presumptive business. After all, if employees can buy a new 8GB iPod for the kids for Christmas, why is it apparently so costly for the company to throw in a measly new hard drive or two?

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    As the iconic BlackBerry goes from strength to strength in subscriber numbers, so do the threats to the device and the business model.

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    In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.

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    The network services business in Australia is hotting up. In this report, Dimension Data's Steve Nola throws down the gauntlet to Vanco's Grant Ellison.

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    Microsoft's chief executive may well think that a $100 PC will solve the problem of software piracy - but it's a question of who is willing to bear the cost.

  • CenITex needs to be governed for success

    Victoria appears set to leap into a new phase of government ICT with the creation of shared technology services agency CenITex, but challenges remain.

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    Gershon's recommendations are consistent with those of other jurisdictions that have undertaken similar reviews, and are aimed at giving the ICT centralisation/decentralisation pendulum a shove back towards the centre. This is, however, easier said than done.

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    After much gossip and speculation, it looks like Apple is indeed working on a portable video player. But creating a device that's as easy to use as a music iPod won't be easy.

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    If you've got so much e-mail you don't know how you'll cope, have we got the software for you!

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    Office equipment is getting easier and easier to use, but just how accessible is it for the wider population?

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