Custom to finally deliver SmartGate

Custom to finally deliver SmartGate After seven years testing border control biometrics, Australian Customs Service says every Australian international airport will be equipped with SmartGate by June 2009.

  • Oracle writes new shopping list

    Stock crash or no, software giant Oracle late last week said it was sticking to its game plan and that meant more acquisitions.

    13 October 2008 07:51 AM

  • Silverlight 2.0 due today

    Microsoft has scheduled a conference call today in the US to announce, among other things, that it has completed version 2.0 of Silverlight, its rival to Adobe's Flash.

    13 October 2008 07:33 AM

  • Microsoft plans big patch Tuesday

    Microsoft has announced 11 security bulletins for next Tuesday when the monthly patch cycle hits, with four considered critical.

    10 October 2008 05:00 PM

  • HP/EDS preps for Aussie restructure

    Hewlett-Packard and EDS are expected to shortly detail which executives will lead their now combined Australian operation following HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant over the past several months.

    10 October 2008 03:13 PM

The bigger the bundled "suite" of Anti-virus ... the bigger the chance that it will be ineffective.

From: Don't buy stand-alone antivirus: Trend Micro

Read it here, then discuss it in Talkback.

  • HP unticks an Emerson box

    Hewlett-Packard has notified the nation's financial regulator that EDS Australia managing director Neil Emerson and several of his colleagues are no longer — on paper — technically leading the IT outsourcer's local operations.

    10 October 2008 03:01 PM

  • Linux 'teething problems' affect netbook returns

    The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Linux vendor Canonical.

    10 October 2008 07:40 AM

  • HP/EDS meeting with troubled UK workforce

    HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.

    10 October 2008 07:26 AM

  • Optus problems run to porting

    Optus has run into problems again with its mobile phone network after a software upgrade over the weekend broke the carrier's ability to port some numbers to or from the network.

    09 October 2008 06:49 PM

  • Unisys clings to BankWest by a thread

    Unisys West, the Unisys-controlled IT outsourcing joint venture with BankWest, hangs on to its old customer by a thread as the two work towards a final date for complete separation.

    10 October 2008 12:03 PM

  • Symantec inherits MessageLabs' Aussie big fish

    Symantec's acquisition of MessageLabs will give it some very large Australian customers, including QBE, Westpac Bank and Virgin Blue.

    09 October 2008 03:54 PM

  • Banking IT ignores credit crisis

    Australia's major banks will continue to pursue huge technology projects that will fuel local IT spending for the next few years despite the global financial crisis, according to a leading local analyst.

    09 October 2008 03:39 PM

  • ServiceFirst a disaster avoidance strategy

    The quiet launch of the NSW State Government's ServiceFirst agency was an attempt to avoid the woes of similar 'big bang' shared services programs in Western Australia and Queensland, according to one analyst.

    09 October 2008 12:35 PM

  • Now Symantec swallows MessageLabs

    Security giant Symantec overnight said it would acquire email security services provider MessageLabs.

    09 October 2008 07:31 AM

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