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It is proposed that services under the alliance will include:

• Hosted business applications: Through Telstra’s T Suite portal, businesses would be able to access Microsoft business software hosted by Microsoft in the cloud and delivered as a subscription service.
• Mobile services and devices: An all-in-one mobile email, calendar, contacts, web browser, business software and phone solution including security features, automatic software upgrades, support and data plan.
• Unified communications: Integrating Telstra’s hosted IP telephony service (TIPT) with Microsoft Office applications.

“Last week’s massive falls in the Australian share-market have frightened Australians. Now 49% are expecting bad times for the Australian economy over the next year — the highest number since the recession of 1991-92.

“Only 26% of Australians say that now is a “good time to buy” major household items — the lowest mark since 1991-92. This is especially worrying for Australian retailers given the importance of the Christmas shopping season to their profitability and continued viability.

If there's one positive to emerge from the global economic
crisis it's that prices of TV sets, digital cameras and other
technology products should stay low, despite the significant drop
in the value of the currency, retailers and economists say.

The Australian dollar dropped to a 5½-year low of 63 US
cents last week, significantly increasing the price of imported
goods. This morning it was trading at 66 US cents, down nearly 5
per cent on yesterday's close of 70 US cents.

NSW secondary school students could be issued with $56 million worth of Linux-based laptops as part of Kevin Rudd's digital education revolution.

The state wants government secondary school students to tote around computers built specifically for the education market.

Jim McAlpine, NSW Secondary Principals' Council president, said sellers could look at offering non-proprietary software for the laptops, such as Edubuntu, the education version of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu.

"The laptops can run on an open source operating system with a suite of open source applications like those packaged under Edubuntu.

"This would include Open Office for productivity software, Gimp for picture editing and the Firefox internet browser.

GOOGLE is poised to cut deeper into Australia's enterprise email market as a result of winning the NSW Education Department contract.

Project management specialist SMS Technology won a deal in July said to be worth $10 million to manage the department's deployment of 1.5 million Gmail accounts.

The project is due to be completed by December.

SMS chief executive Tom Stianos said four organisations with email contracts valued at $60 million had expressed interest in using email systems similar to the department's Gmail system.

The organisations included at least two government agencies and a financial institution, he said.

Xero founder Rod Drury is unfazed by Australian
accounting software company MYOB's move into the SaaS space, saying his rival
is still at least 12 months away from releasing a meaningful online option for
customers.










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Drury made the comments as Xero launches
its push into Australia
- a potential market of well over 2 million small businesses.

Pioneer Computers Australia has unveiled its DreamVision NetTop PC MD 1.

Powered by Intel Atom 1.6G processors N270, the PC stands upright and comes with two USB ports, a MIC, headphone and card reader.

It supports WLAN , Windows 2000, Windows XP and is also Windows Vista Basic ready.

Packaged in a gift box, the PC is available from PIONEER Computers Australia on a build to order basis. Retail prices start at $399 including GST.

Macquarie Hosting says it has invested more than a million dollars over the past year in virtualization hardware and core Internet and security services to support this initiative.

The company has already begun testing the service with many of its current customers including News Limited, Westpac and Showbiz.com.au.  

The overall speed of internet connections has also risen in the last year.

The number of connections with download speeds of 1.5 megabits per second or more increased from 36 per cent in 2007 to 43 per cent in June.

"As at June 2008, Australia had a total of 7.2 million active internet subscribers," the ABS said.

"Just under 80 per cent of these subscribers had broadband connections."

BROADBAND-CONNECTED Yorke Peninsula will generate an extra $25.5 million in economic benefits for SA over the next five years.

A State Government report has concluded that $2.75 million's worth of federal and state support since 2005 to help roll out wireless broadband to 97 per cent of the peninsula had returned three to four times that amount in financial, social and other benefits.

Report author Systems Knowledge Concepts managing director Simon Molloy said the peninsula's 11,000 residents had been fast adopters of the service – 40 per cent of households and 60 per cent of businesses were now connected, spending metropolitan-equivalent prices of about $39.95 a month for the 1.5Mb-a-second service.

What do Australians do online?
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