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ACCC clears Optus to scrap HFC network and use NBN instead

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Forrester appoints ANZ industry analyst

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Technology research group. Forrester Research, has appointed Sam Higgins to the position of senior analyst, Australia and New Zealand in a bid to strengthen its research capacity and influence in the Asia Pacific market. Higgins will focus on a wide range of research topics from enterprise architecture, and large-scale distributed systems architecture, to application design and implementation, and service orientation. He will also investigate IT management issues in the areas of strategic planning, service management, project management, and portfolio management. Higgins has more than 12 years of experience developing client-server, mainframe-centric systems, and distributed N-tier applications using traditional, component and model-based approaches, tools, and environments. Prior to joining Forrester, he was the manager for innovation and planning with Queensland Transport's information services branch.