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by David Swan
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Industry leader Google is set to turn the desktop OS war on its head, with
several sources tipping that the company's new Chrome OS is about to make its debut later
this week.
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by Stuart Corner
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Optus has opened a mobile applications store that gives its mobile customers one-stop shop access to a number of other mobile applications stores.
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by William Atkins
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According to a UCLA study of trends in disability within older adults in the United States (especially in the Baby Boomer generation), a disturbing trend was found: much more physical disabilities than the previous generation.
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by James Riley
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There are just eight sitting days left until Parliament pulls up stumps for 2009 and our politicians head home for the summer break. And the stakes could not be higher on a number of fronts – not least the coming debate on the Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
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by James Riley
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Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has defended the Rudd Government's record on micro-economic reform in the wake of its continued protection of the book publishing industry, pointing to the telecommunications reforms currently before the Parliament as a huge and challenging undertaking.
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by James Riley
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Having filled many of the top tier positions reporting directly to executive chairman Mike Quigley, the NBN Company has embarked on a broad campaign to fill the next layer of technology management specialists.
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by Peter Dinham
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Symantec has appointed a new sales director for its hosted services business in Australia and New Zealand. Former Dell national sales director, Keith Buckley, has joined Symantec with overall responsibility for sales and client management in the ANZ market.
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by Peter Dinham
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Victorian Government owned water authority, Western Water, has deployed a solution from Open Spatial to manage its spatial data for servicing nearly 50,000 of its customers in regional towns west of Melbourne.
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by David Heath
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Sophos' Graham Cluley is amazed at the reception given to the iPhone worm creator. Others have offered a mix of jobs and death threats.
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by James Riley
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Optus chief Paul O'Sullivan has urged Federal Parliament to pass without delay telecommunications reform legislation scheduled to be debated in the Senate over the next two weeks, saying the changes will unleash a new wave of competition in the
sector.
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by Peter Dinham
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A South Australian local government authority is claiming reductions of $20,000 in annual cost reductions with the installation of its new inter-town wireless network from local vendor, MIMP Connecting Solutions.
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by William Atkins
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CSIRO announced on Thursday, November 12, 2009, that its new Renewable Energy Integration Facility has opened. The scientific research agency of Australia stated that the facility is "A step towards zero emission communities."
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by William Atkins
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NASA is hoping for clear sailing on Monday as its space shuttle Atlantis crew prepares to launch for its mission delivering and installing spare parts to the International Space Station. The weather forecast predicts a 90% chance for acceptable launch conditions.
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by David Heath
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Dear Virgin Blue, if you make a mistake with a bulk email, at least get your facts correct when you apologise. Otherwise, all you're doing is compounding the problem.
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