There's little doubt that the NBN will reduce the number of internet service providers (ISPs) in Australia. Smaller ISPs will disappear as the need for local infrastructure will disappear and larger ISPs dominate. We saw it with the arrival of broadband, now it will happen again

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Will the NBN limit competition?

One of the great New Zealand obsessions is "catching up with Australia". We even have a government 2025 Taskforce aimed at coming up with economic policies to reduce this gap.

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Aussies eat NZ broadband dust

When a young Vittorio De Bortoli left Italy in 1924, escaping World War I to seek a better life in Australia, it is doubtful that he could have foreseen the slow path to prosperity and success that was ahead of him.

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De Bortoli CIO's fruitful reign

Microsoft and HTC announced they have inked a new patent deal that specifically provides the Taiwanese mobile phone maker with the right to use Microsoft's patented technologies in phones running Google's Android operating system.

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Microsoft, HTC sign Android patent deal

Hewlett-Packard will purchase Palm for $1.2 billion, the companies announced on Wednesday.

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HP to buy Palm for US$1.2bn

Alcatel-Lucent, the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Government have teamed up to create a $10 million research centre for green telecommunications.

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Melbourne Uni, Alcatel sign for telco research

The coalition would put 25,000 jobs under threat and see Australian companies lose out to Asian competitors by scrapping the National Broadband Network (NBN), the government has said.

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Ditching NBN would cost 25k jobs: govt

With the Australian Taxation Office's problems making obtaining a tax refund as hard as raiding Fort Knox, one IT manager discovered how he could release all the funds owing.

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ATO uses drastic measures on IT woes

IT services provider Logica has added 26 new jobs in its Canberra division, announcing that this will be the first in a series of expansions to "grow the Canberra office" throughout 2010.

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Logica beefs up in Canberra

Telstra markets its new T-Hub device as "The Future in a Phone" - but as telcos go fancy in an attempt to stem the exodus of revenues from landline services, customers may be asking a more relevant point: does the home phone even have a future?

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Can T-Hub-thumping save the landline?