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  • The federal government and Telstra will be well on the way to a broadband deal by Christmas, but final agreement will take another two years.

  • The Chinese telecommunications market is faced with significant challenges and opportunities heading into 2010, according to new research

  • IBM has opened the doors to its new information technology services centre in Ballarat today thanks to a joint investment by the Victorian state government and University of Ballarat.

  • The Asia Pacific market held up the strongest in terms fourth quarter sales for leading personal computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard in fourth quarter 2009, according to the company's annual results released yesterday.

  • The former chief of staff to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh will be paid $100,000 more a year than the prime minister in his new role with the company that will build and operate the national broadband network

  • Telstra has dumped its controversial $2.20 administration fee for people paying their bills over the counter or by mail less than two months after it was introduced

  • Network equipment company Cisco Systems could revoke its $US3.04 billion offer for video conferencing group Tandberg after the Norwegian company's shareholders voted to reject the deal, seeking a higher offer.

  • Internet service provider iiNet has installed its own network infrastructure in eight new regional communities over the next eight months.

  • The United States government has relaxed its grip over internet domain names, ending an 11-year joint project agreement (JPA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

  • Dimension Data has won a three-year renewal of its contract with the South Australian Government worth $36 million.

  • Australian software entrepeneur Ric Richardson plans to appeal a US District Court decision that overturned a $US388 million ruling against Microsoft for patent violation.

  • Six Australian technology companies will showcase their products at this year's Gateway to the US Summit in Silicon Valley on October 6.

  • Press freedom activists have alleged that the Chinese government is restricting access to thousands of websites ahead of the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of the ruling Communist regime.

  • Telstra has said it is negotiating with the federal government over proposals to separate the telco, with the interests of its shareholders taking precedence

  • Document management giant Xerox is the latest hardware company to make a move on the services market, announcing plans to buy Affiliated Computer Services for $US6.4 billion.

  • Five companies have been selected to participate in the Federal Government's interim panel for data centre facilities and services.

  • Twitter received an undisclosed sum in new financing deals struck with Insight Venture Partners, T

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  • No business or business model is recession-proof, but Salesforce.com is making a pretty good case for itself and software as a service (SaaS)..




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  • The litany of errors that threw Queensland Health's payroll into chaos could become a teaching module for how not to carry out a major technology project, but we've been here before..




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  • State and federal government bureaucrats held the last of four public consultation forums in Melbourne today as they continue to work towards the creation of a national recycling scheme for computers and televisions...

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