CeBIT: Complete coverage
By Fran Foo, ZDNet Australia
May 08, 2007
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/CeBIT-Complete-coverage/0,130061733,339275255,00.htm
round up Many firsts were achieved at the recent IT trade show, CeBIT Australia 2007, in Sydney.
How mobile phone condoms (pic) fit into business technology is beyond us but they sure turned many heads.
The event forced us to become broadcast journalists of sorts -- news reporters manning the mike to provide video updates due to severe restrictions on video content by CeBIT organiser Hannover Fairs.
While there were no limitations for shots on the show floor, keynote and panel sessions were a no go. To be fair, Hannover Fairs didn't bar us from shooting these sessions; the organisation merely wanted us to limit our videos to 60 seconds (maximum), embed a CeBIT Australia watermark in all our videos, and some other conditions only Hollywood agents and lawyers would be familiar with.
But thanks to the genius of our video editor Matthew Oxley, our journalists conducted a video wrap after each session they attended so readers could have an insight into the keynotes (apart from their written stories).
Below is a compilation of videos, images and stories by the ZDNet Australia team including Steven Deare, Luke Anderson, Munir Kotadia, Brian Haverty, Scott Mckenzie, Stephen Turner and Farha Raziuddin.
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 Duration 5.05CeBIT Australia 2007 has ended on a high, with all exhibitors and visitors polled by ZDNet Australia saying they plan to return next year.
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National ICT Australia's Professor Gernot Heiser had some blunt words for the OpenOffice community -- the product isn't ready to compete with the big boys.
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 Duration 3:44The Dead on Demand Digital Shredder bags the inaugural ZDNet Australia Emerging Technology Innovation Award at CeBIT.
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 Duration from 1:27Baker says Firefox is about promoting an open Internet where no company or individual holds a monopoly on innovation. Choose from four videos.
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 Duration approx 3:30A selection of short video interviews with executives from Salesforce.com, Intranet Dashboard, McAfee and IBM, which were conducted at the CeBIT exhibition in Sydney last week.
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 Duration 6:31Electronic government took centre stage with Ann Steward, chief information officer for the Australian government addressing a full house.
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Hundreds of products and services were on display in addition to the conference, keynotes and forums. Join us for a photo tour.
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Open source vendors need to become "more business-like" in their dealings with government to succeed, said a government official.
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Google is having to search the United States for IT workers to staff the search engine's growing operations in Australia.
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The federal government has more work to do in ensuring the continuity of its e-government strategy, according to Ann Steward, Australian government CIO.
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 Duration 2:14Federal Communications minister Senator Helen Coonan opens CeBIT Australia 2007.
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Blogs could be the next frontier for governments to discuss plans and policies with citizens, according to Special Minister of State Gary Nairn.
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 Duration 3:16Google's recent foray into business applications has attracted more than 1,000 small businesses in Australia.
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 Duration 3:02New Zealand government CIO has cautioned Australian counterparts about rushing to embrace Web 2.0 technologies.
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