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Western Power says no redundancies
WESTERN Power has almost completed its technology outsourcing strategy.
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The Australian Dotcom Crash Quiz
Test your knowledge about the dotcom boom and its spectacular end. It is now ten years since the bubble burst.
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Roxon releases health identifier rules
FEDERAL Health Minister Nicola Roxon has buckled and released proposed draft regulations for the Healthcare Identifiers service.
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70 substantiated privacy breaches in 2009: Medicare
THERE were 70 substantiated privacy breaches from investigations into around 950 Medicare employees suspected of having had unauthorised access to client records.
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Do not touch Do Not Call register: Smith
THE federal opposition has vowed to vote down government legislation which seeks to extend the Do Not Call Register to businesses.
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NBN hearings extended over retail clause
THE Senate select committee on the NBN has called for extra public hearings on the $43 billion fibre broadband project.
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Google pushes gently over China censor
GOOGLE may soon get the nod to stop censoring in China, but it will not pull out entirely if Beijing rejected its most-desired option.
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Telstra shares 'too cheap to ignore'
TELSTRA shares continue to win friends, having poked their head back above $3 for the first time in a fortnight.
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Australia on net censorship blacklist
A TOP media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship.
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Investors cited in Telstra fightback
SHAREHOLDERS are at the heart of moves to halt the telco's split.
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NEHTA 'ignored' global standards, claims medical software expert
MEDICAL software-makers say the National E-Health Transition Authority has ignored international standards for implementation of the Healthcare Identifier service.
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Westp.ac domain 'sale' raises bank's ire
DAYS after trying to flog the Qant.as domain name to the Flying Kangaroo, online entrepreneur Dominic Holland has struck again with Westpac Bank in his sights.
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NBN 'dead' without Telstra: Minchin
THE opposition says the NBN is "dead in the water" without Telstra's participation.
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Telstra rivals lobby Fielding on vote
TELSTRA'S rivals urged independent Senator Steve Fielding today to change his stance and support a bill to split the telco giant in two.
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iiNet in buyout talks
IINET has confirmed it is involved in early negotiations for the potential acquisition of several ISPs, including Netspace.
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Google China censorship talks near end
GOOGLE expects to soon conclude censorship talks in China, but it also told US Congress that 25 governments had blocked its services.
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Mexican named world's richest man
MEXICAN telecoms magnate Carlos Slim Helu has been named the world's richest man, while Australia's Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest is ranked 208.
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Google software cloud over Microsoft
GOOGLE is broadening its assault on Microsoft's dominance of business software with an online marketplace for third-party products.
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Telstra bounces on revival of hope
TELSTRA shares enjoyed a brief reprieve from their three-month battering yesterday.
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NSW first for health identifiers
NSW public hospital patients will be guinea pigs for the countrywide rollout of healthcare identifiers.
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