Data#3 wins NBN office IT roll-out
Diversified ICT products and services group Data#3 has won a fistful of contracts to design, deploy and manage the National Broadband Network Company’s corporate IT infrastructure. Mike Quigley (Credit: Alcatel-Lucent) Announcing the deals today, Data#3 managing director John Grant said NBN Co had put four contracts out to market about four months ago to support its corporate environment, as distinct from its planned network roll-out
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Data#3 wins NBN office IT roll-out
update The Department of Defence today released its 2009 ICT strategy paper , outlining how it intends to spend $940 million over four years, instead of $720 million over a decade, to deliver $1.9 billion in savings. The $940 million over four years plan announced today differs markedly from another plan released in July this year, in which Defence said it would spend $708 million over 10 years, hoping to deliver the same savings announced today — $1.2 billion over 10 years , followed by $250 million a year thereafter
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Defence overhauls ICT spending
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has commenced a final roll-out of two-factor authentication (2FA) systems that will see 400,000 customers of its NetBank internet banking service upgraded to the secure log-in technology. We paused it for a while as part of our internet banking upgrade and now we have resumed the program Drew Unsworth, CBA’s general manager for Online Banking 2FA systems improve the security of web applications by insisting on the use of a user’s password and a second password generated specially for each session.
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CBA finalising second-factor roll-out
We’re always excited in the weeks leading up to Black Friday , the traditional three-day shopping period right after Thanksgiving. It's become almost a sport seeing how low prices on TVs will go—and what “doorbuster” deals we'll miss out on when we decide that it’s just not worth getting up before dawn to try for one of the limited-quantity offers. Although it’s still early in the deal-hunting season, several Black Friday sites, such as BlackFridayInfo and GottaDeal , have already posted what they claim are Sears’ and Kmart's Black Friday ads
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HDTV deals: Watch for doorbuster specials and “derivative” models
DESKTOP COMPUTER FOR SALE Acer 15” TFT monitor Genuine Windows XP Pro with disc AMD Athlon XP 2500 Processor 1.83GHz, 1GB ram Gigabyte GA-7n400 Pro2 motherboard ATI radeon 9600pro graphics card 128Mb onboard memory, 250GB hard drive,keyboard, mouse Just built a new computer so getting rid of an old one. £120 collection only from Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales Location: Vale of Glamorgan I have read the trading rules and agree to abide by them at all times until the transaction is concluded to the satisfaction of all parties involved : Yes
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For Sale : Desktop and monitor for sale
A taxpayer-funded conference to be held next month on the future of fast broadband will cost $528,000, documents reveal. Hailed last week by the Federal Government as a “major forum” , the Realising Our Broadband Future meet up will bring together Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, US web pioneer and now Google evangelist Vint Cerf, academics and the NBN Co’s chief, Mike Quigley, to discuss what new applications will be possible in a high speed broadband world
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Conroy’s broadband forum to cost $500k
Dell has finally confirmed the availability of their latest Adamo XPS laptop, which is claimed to be the world’s thinnest PC laptop. Measuring at just 9.9mm thin, the Dell Adamo XPS is powered by a 1.4GHz Intel ULV processor with a 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 128GB solid state drive (SSD), a 13.4-inch HD display with a resolution of 1,366 x 728, two USB 2.0 ports, a headphone jack and a mini display port. The Dell Adamo XPS is expected to go on sale before Christmas 2009 for $1,799.
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Dell Adamo XPS Officially Confirmed
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner today said the government had found an additional $430 million in projected savings from its annual IT spend, meaning it had satisfied the Gershon Review’s target of shaving off $1 billion a year. The savings, targeted at so-called “business as usual” spending on information and communication technology (ICT) within federal government agencies, are expected to be realised between 2010-11 and 2012-13, according to a statement by Tanner
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Tanner claims Gershon victory
Leighton Contractors has extended a contract with HP for managed print services after increasing the scope of its original contract earlier this year. “We have decided to renew our Managed Print Services contract with HP because our existing HP printing infrastructure has reduced the cost of our printing, improved staff productivity, and reduced our environmental footprint,” Leighton Contractors chief information officer Diane Fernley-Jones said in a statement. HP has already reduced Leighton Contractors’ printer fleet from a seven-to-one user printer ratio to 10-to-one, and in some cases 15-to-one.
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Leighton Contractors renews HP deal
By choosing to boost its early-termination fees (ETFs) to as much as $350 for its smart phones, like the Blackberry Storm2 and the hot new Motorola Droid , Verizon Wireless has chosen to (literally) penalize some of its best customers. The hike is a slap to Verizon’s “advanced device” owners, which are every carrier’s biggest prize because they tend to buy more services than most customers—voice minutes plus lots of data downloads. Indeed, Verizon itself told us last year that Blackberry-type customers drop twice as much revenue into the till as traditional voice-only cell users.
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Verizon’s fee hike: A surprising slap to its best customers
It is nice to see a decent high end release from Acer; it uses the Intel Core i7 CPU so we know that this machine is going to be good. The Acer Aspire 8940 is an 18.4 display model, so there is the possibility that gamers may be interested in hijacking this laptop for themselves. Specs – 1.6 GHz Intel Core i7 720QM processor, 18.4 inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) widescreen display, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 250m 1 GB graphics cards, 4 x Blu-ray / DVD Super-Multi double layer drive, a multi card reader, 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-FI, Acer Crystal Eye web camera, 5 USB 2.0 ports, 1 HDMI port, 1 eSATA port, 8 cell Li-Ion battery, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit.
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High end release for Acer
The New Zealand Government is considering plans to use analog TV frequencies to provide wireless broadband to rural areas, Communications Minister Steven Joyce told the Korea Australia New Zealand (KANZ) Broadband Summit in Auckland yesterday. The annual event, which ends today, attracted the attendance of Australia’s ICT Minister Stephen Conroy, representatives of the Korean government, and around 150 industry figures.
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Kiwi TV spectrum could be wireless broadband
The newly formed Australian Pirate Party came out swinging yesterday with a release criticising the international discussions currently being held in Korea to cement an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. David Crafti (Credit: Pirate Party) These discussions had their roots back in 2006 when the US and Japan floated the idea of a new treaty to help build joint intellectual property rules to fight counterfeiting and piracy. June 2008 saw Australia included along with other countries
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Oz Pirate Party slams ‘secret’ IP talks
Joining the likes of Sears, which jump-started the traditional Black Friday holiday shopping period with pre-sales that started last weekend, this Saturday Walmart kicks off one week of special savings on everything from a $5 turkey to a $500 TV. Starting on Saturday November 7th at 8 a.m., Walmart stores will offer a variety of deals, including its first one-week electronics savings event .
From Friday, Fujitsu’s Kaz and Supply Chain brands would cease to exist, being relabelled as Fujitsu, the company said today. Fujitsu Australia chief Rod Vawdrey (Credit: Fujitsu) “The Supply Chain brand and the Kaz brand are being gracefully retired,” former Kaz head and current Fujitsu executive director of sales and business development Mike Foster said. Fujitsu CEO Rod Vawdrey said that keeping the brands would not have been viable.
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The end of Kaz: Fujitsu kills brand name
The Federal Government today revealed it had organised what it described as a “major forum” on the future of Australia’s digital economy in the wake of the construction of the National Broadband Network. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy (Credit: Suzanne Tindal/ZDNet.com.au) The forum, dubbed “Realising Our Broadband Future” , will be held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney on 10 and 11 December this year and feature Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a speaker.
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Govt reveals Dec broadband forum
Would that all timepieces were like our cell phone and computer clocks, automatically turning themselves forward or back to adjust to daylight-saving time. Alas, it ain't so. Don't forget that at 2AM this Sunday morning, daylight-saving time—that wonderfully sunny season that may be costing us all more money —ends and we all get to start commuting home in the dark
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A friendly reminder: Daylight saving ends this weekend
If you’ve been eagerly anticipating the three-day Black Friday shopping period to get a great deal on a new Blu-ray player , you may not have to wait: Best Buy is now selling a BD-Live model with access to streaming movies from Netflix for just $99.99. The player, NS-BRDVD3, is the same one we wrote about recently when it was priced at $180. Apparently the everyday price is now $150, but the model is currently on sale for $100
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Holiday Headstart: Why wait for Black Friday? Get a $100 Blu-ray player now
Carved your pumpkin yet? If not, here's some inspiration in the form of a time-lapse video , an amalgam of sequential images condensing a longer period of time into a few minutes—in this case, the time it takes to play one verse of Michael Jackson's “Thriller.” You can make one yourself, MacGyver-like, with a digital SLR camera and a graphing calculator. Darren Rouse at Digital Photography School has posted a tutorial explaining how : [Tutorial courtesy of Chris Martino ] 1) Set-up your shot.
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Use your SLR camera to shoot a Halloween time-lapse video
Acer AOD250-1383 10.1-Inch Ruby Red Netbook form Acer Netbook. The Acer AOD250-1383 10.1-Inch Ruby Red Netbook – Up to 8 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Starter) with these high level Specs. Intel Atom Processor N270, Windows 7 Starter, 10.1-Inch WSVGA Acer CrystalBrite LED Display, Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset, Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM Single Channel Memory, 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM), Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader, Acer InviLink 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, Integrated Acer Crystal Eye Webcam, Two Built-in Stereo Speakers, 3 – USB 2.0 Ports, 6-cell Li-ion Battery (5200 mAh), 2.79 lbs
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Acer AOD250-1383 10.1-Inch Ruby Red Netbook