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by James Riley
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Internet service provider Primus Telecom has increased its backhaul capacity to Tasmania through the just-commissioned Basslink fibre cable and is cranking up its business and residential presence on the Apple Isle as a result.
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by James Riley
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Industry analysts have welcomed the NBN Company board appointments as a good mix of communications, finance and general business expertise, although shadow minister Nick Minchin says it lacks specific telecommunications experience.
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by Beverley Head
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The battlelines for online banking have been redrawn with the launch of an online bank account by UBank which it claims lets most Australian adults set up an online account in five minutes and access an interest rate of 5.11%.
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by Stephen Withers
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Shadow Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy Nick Minchin has blasted as "incompetence and mismanagement" the appointment of McKinsey-KPMG as lead advisor to the National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.
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by Stephen Withers
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D-Link has announced a new range of surveillance video recorders aimed at the home, SOHO and SME markets.
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by David Heath
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Two days ago, Texas emergency alert notification provider TechRadium filed suit in the US District Court alleging that Twitter infringes on three patents.
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by James Riley
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The Rudd Government has announced five new directors to the NBN Company board of directors, including Doug Campbell, the former Telstra Country Wide chief who was recently appointed to chair the Tasmania NBN Company.
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by Stephen Withers
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The Australian government has appointed a consortium formed by McKinsey and KPMG to act as lead advisor to the National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.
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by Beverley Head
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A range of key performance indicators which will track the performance of SAP’s enterprise support services will be completed within the next couple of months, and from then on SAP price hikes will be indexed to the KPIs.
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by Sam Varghese
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PC maker Lenovo has reported somewhat encouraging sales figures for the first quarter in an environment where any increase in sales would be gratefully received.
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by Stephen Withers
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bluewoki turns an iPhone or iPod touch into a Bluetooth walkie-talkie. Is this one of the least useful 'serious' products in the App Store?
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by Sam Varghese
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Members of the OpenSUSE community are rallying behind a suggestion to make KDE the default desktop environment for the distribution.
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by James Riley
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The ICT sector job market has hit bottom and is enjoying the bounce, with surprisingly strong growth in employment advertisements during July of more than 8 per cent, according to the Olivier Job Index.
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by Stephen Withers
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A new beta of Google's Chrome browser brings technical, usability and cosmetic changes.
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by Stephen Withers
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Google's still on the acquisition track. This time it's looking to pick up video compression developer On2.
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by Davey Winder
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While an Archbishop bemoans social networking for being partly responsible for teenage suicides, Intel prefers to remain positive and thinks Facebook might just find a cure for cancer.
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by Stephen Withers
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Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.5.8 update for Leopard, along with a new Security Update for Tiger.
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by Jake Widman
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Initial reports of the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal made it sound like Microsoft got by far the better of the deal, but new document filings show that Yahoo is getting more than was first announced.
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