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Tech News Bulletin
Friday October 10, 2008
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NBN deal still 12 months away: Minchin
Shadow Communications Minister Senator Nick Minchin today said he thought it unlikely a builder for the Federal Government's $4.7 billion national broadband network would be locked in for another 12 months.
Tags: nbn, minchin, conroy, accc, 4.7, nick, senator, labor
Optus problems run to porting
Optus has run into problems again with its mobile phone network after a software upgrade over the weekend broke the carrier's ability to port some numbers to or from the network.
Tags: optus, mobile, porting, outage, sim, calls, software, upgrade
Symantec inherits MessageLabs' Aussie big fish
Symantec's acquisition of MessageLabs will give it some very large Australian customers, including QBE, Westpac Bank and Virgin Blue.
Tags: messagelabs, symantec, acquisition, messaging security, messagelab
Banking IT ignores credit crisis
Australia's major banks will continue to pursue huge technology projects that will fuel local IT spending for the next few years despite the global financial crisis, according to a leading local analyst.
Tags: banking, bankwest, commonwealth, credit crisis, gartner, national, st george, suncorp
ServiceFirst a disaster avoidance strategy
The quiet launch of the NSW State Government's ServiceFirst agency was an attempt to avoid the woes of similar 'big bang' shared services programs in Western Australia and Queensland, according to one analyst.
Tags: emmanuel rodriguez, it services, nsw, people first, servicefirst, shared services, harris, savings
NSW segregates BusinessLink, ServiceFirst
The New South Wales State Government has no plans to consolidate its existing shared services agency BusinessLink with the new division, ServiceFirst, which the Government quietly set up over the past few months to provide similar services to different agencies.
Tags: nsw, sap, shared services, state government, finance, hr, oss, queensland
Linux 'teething problems' affect netbook returns
The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Linux vendor Canonical.
Tags: canonical, eee pc, linux, netbook, ubuntu, carr, msi, return
HP/EDS meeting with troubled UK workforce
HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.
Tags: cuts, eds, government, hewlett-packard, hp, jobs, uk, union
New Apple laptops to arrive next week
Apple is expected to unveil updates to its laptop line next week with the official confirmation issued overnight that it was planning a press event in the US.
Tags: apple, laptop, macbook, steve jobs, us, invite, official, inboxe
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Telstra could be facing industrial action after one of the unions that represents the telco's workers late last night said attempts to negotiate a new collective agreement had failed.
Tags: cepu, industrial action, strike, telstra, unions, union, agreement, industrial

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