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  • Ex-Qld Health CIO heads south

    High-flying Australian IT executive Paul Summergreene has surfaced in Canberra, commencing work consulting to the health sector after losing his spot as Queensland Health chief information officer in July.

  • CD with 3,000 taxpayer details goes missing

    A compact disc containing taxation details of 3,122 Australian taxpayers has gone missing whilst en route to the Australian Taxation Office from its printers.

  • Breach in Terria's hull sealed

    The telco exodus which has plagued the Terria broadband consortium over the last week is now over, according to remaining members, who yesterday pledged their support as being "rock solid".

  • Economic crisis 'has made NBN unviable'

    The global economic crisis has made the Federal Government's National Broadband Network plan an expensive and risky proposition which end users won't have the money to pay for, one analyst said this week.

  • TransACT quits Terria too

    TransACT has decided to pull out of Terria, the consortium bidding against Telstra for the government's $4.7 billion national broadband network, shortly after the departure of two other members AAPT and Soul.

  • NSW to censor student laptops

    The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) plans to limit internet access on the laptops given to NSW's senior students under the "digital education revolution" to a pre-approved list of websites.

  • Soul-TPG drops out of Terria

    TPG-Soul has pulled out of the Terria consortium today, saying the nation doesn't need a national broadband network.

  • Telstra outlines 21Mbps Next G plans

    Telstra today said it would start upgrading its Next G mobile network to 21Mbps speeds by the end of the year, with Canada-based supplier Sierra Wireless working on the first customer access device.

  • Caspari needs to come clean

    The first task on new EDS Australia and New Zealand vice president David Caspari's plate should be to come clean on exactly what the local consequences of HP's acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant will be.

  • AAPT doesn't affect bid: Terria

    National broadband network consortium Terria said today that AAPT's withdrawal from the group would not affect its ability to hand in a bid on 26 November.

  • Finances won't kill Terria bid: Conroy

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today signalled he was unmoved by statements from the Terria telco consortium that the global economic crisis had forced it to seek alternative funding for its national broadband network bid.

  • Oracle writes new shopping list

    Stock crash or no, software giant Oracle late last week said it was sticking to its game plan and that meant more acquisitions.

  • HP/EDS preps for Aussie restructure

    Hewlett-Packard and EDS are expected to shortly detail which executives will lead their now combined Australian operation following HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant over the past several months.

  • NBN deal still 12 months away: Minchin

    Shadow Communications Minister Senator Nick Minchin today said he thought it unlikely a builder for the Federal Government's $4.7 billion national broadband network would be locked in for another 12 months.

  • Telstra's new network centre: Photos

    Telstra this morning launched a multi-million dollar network operations centre to manage the enterprise networks of 1,100 corporate Telstra customers who have paid for the premium service.

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