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Optus D3 satellite set for August launch
Stuart Corner
Optus has announced that it D3 satellite, the ninth in a 24 year history of Australian domestic satellites, will be launched by Arianespace during August.
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High DR test failure rate, downtime costs soar: report
Peter Dinham
Higher than normal disaster recovery testing failure rates and soaring downtime costs have hit businesses as they work to meet more stringent IT service level requirements and to mitigate risks to their businesses.
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How Yahoo! helped create Google Maps
Stuart Corner
Lars Rasmussen, software engineering manager at Google and one of the original creators of Google Maps, and more recently Google Wave, has given a blow-by-blow account of how a small Sydney software start-up came to provide the technology underpinning Google Maps.
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New chief for CSC Oz health services
Peter Dinham
IT services group, CSC has appointed a 15-year industry veteran to lead its healthcare business in Australia as it pushes its services as part of the federal government’s e-health agenda.
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CSG wins multi-million dollar government contract
Peter Dinham
IT services group, CSG is to deliver an online portal and support services to students in Victorian state schools under a $64.6 million, four year contract with the Victorian Government.
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See lavender sunset compliments of Russian volcano
William Atkins
The Russian volcano Sarychev Peak erupted on June 12, 2009, and now you can see a plume of ash and sulfur dioxide mixing with the normal sunset to produce a lavender, or purplish, sunset throughout the northern United States and Europe.
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