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How MIT won me over

On a visit to MIT, ZDNet UK columnist Jane Wakefield discovers not a bunch of machine-obsessed geeks but a group of people dedicated to making technology human.

June 26, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

Telstra unveils AU$1.5 billion IP core

The nation's largest telco today claimed success for delivering a key part of its internal technology transformation -- a new AU$1.5 billion Internet Protocol-based (IP) network core dubbed "Next IP".

April 25, 2007 by Renai LeMay

Telstra achieves a single bill

The consolidation of back-end billing systems at the nation's largest telco Telstra is starting to show results, with the telco notifying customers it could now issue them a single bill covering all of their broadband and telephony services.Telstra has since November 2005 been involved in an AU$1 billion transformation of its IT capability under its chief operating officer Greg Winn, including a 75 percent reduction of its business and operational support systems from the previous high of 1,200.

April 1, 2007 by Renai LeMay

Election-day technology watches the polls

I'm in Reno, Nevada, preparing to do some poll watching for the Obama campaign. We went to a training last night where they explained what seems like a convoluted reporting system, but organizers promise it actually works well.

November 4, 2008 by Richard Koman

Handsets get the jump on Telstra's fixed-line SMS

Telstra will be under pressure to ensure it launches its fixed-line SMS service due early next year, as handset suppliers give their equipment a generous head-start to greet the service.It is understood that Telstra's fixed-line division is introducing the new messaging service in an attempt to protect its revenue streams as its rivals in mobile space step-up efforts to lure customers away from conventional land line services.

November 9, 2004 by Andrew Colley

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association.Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office setup - a desk out in a corner of the garage where there's a printer, a phone, some speakers (for my background tunes) and even a small TV with CNN on in the background.

October 7, 2008 by Sam Diaz

How to cover your IT assets

A narrow product focus has isolated IT asset management from business goals and other company assets for too long. Find out how the industry is redefining the asset management value proposition.

November 17, 2004 by David Braue

RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whip

The headlines across the blogosphere make it sound like the Recording Industry Association of America has thrown in the towel and decided to stop going after music pirates on the Internet. That's not exactly the case.

December 19, 2008 by Sam Diaz

Obama: "It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption"

The 21st Century Tech President said Saturday morning that the U.S.

December 6, 2008 by Sam Diaz

See the heart beat in real time from outside

The Acuson SC2000 ultrasound lets a doctor watch your heart beat, in real-time, from outside your chest.

August 29, 2008 by Dana Blankenhorn