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  • Qld education progresses PC project

    Queensland's Department of Education, Training and the Arts has revealed it is most of the way through one of Australia's largest roll-outs of a standard desktop PC and server operating environments, including a standardised Apple Mac installation.

  • Kaz wins AU$20 million Defence contract

    A AU$20 million Australian Defence contract has been awarded to local IT outsourcer, Kaz Technology Services.

  • NSW Commerce Dept plugs broadband holes

    The New South Wales Department of Commerce has revealed it will use multiple telcos to service the bandwidth needs of its new wide area network.

  • Agriculture dept digs up VoIP

    The federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has flagged plans to migrate to an Internet Protocol-based (IP) telephony system, keeping its options open on a full unified communications move.

  • Industry dept outlines MS CRM plans

    The federal Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (DITR) has detailed plans to implement at least three new customer relationship management (CRM) systems based on Microsoft software.

Blogs (6)

  • Read the blog post - Suzanne Tindal

    Give Tax a break for a Change

    Considering the circumstances the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Change Program has been operating in over the last few years, it really hasn't been going too badly.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    2009 funding drought rolls on

    For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Why I hate the Privacy Commissioner's office

    According to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report, Australian consumers should feel pretty safe but that's because it's full of crap.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN a lose-lose deal for Telstra

    Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    What would Dr Who do?

    There's only one thing better than a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager: a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager that also lets you think about Billie Piper or John Barrowman a lot.

Features and Case Studies (4)

  • ATO's Change Agenda a 'black hole'

    The Australian Taxation's Change Program (which is best suited perhaps for simple formulaic tax collections, not complex audit, analysis and interpretation work) may collapse under its own dead weight.

  • How much CIO pay is too much?

    How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?

  • Down and out in Australia

    Do Australian companies really need a business continuity plan? ZDNet Australia finds out what all the talk is about in disaster recovery and continuity planning.

  • How ethical hacking saved the day

    What should you do if your hacked servers are being used for illegal purposes? Read this case study to find out.

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