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    The federal government will spend AU$12.4 million over the next two years to tackle intellectual property crime.

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  • Customs unveils IT outsourcing plans

    The Australian Customs Service (EDS) has issued long-awaited tenders for outsourcing of a range of information technology functions as an AU$550 million deal with Electronic Data Systems (EDS) draws to a close.

  • Aust agencies lagging on OSS: Red Hat

    Linux vendor Red Hat has welcomed the release of the government's open-source software guide, but said Australia was up to three years behind countries aggressively adopting OSS.

  • Alston slams ACS unemployment report

    The federal government has savaged an Australian Computer Society survey which alleges employment in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector stands at 11.9 percent as "blatant grandstanding".

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    If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.

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  • Don't like offshoring? Get over it, says AIIA

    Overseas outsourcing is here to stay, so there is no point trying to prevent it, the Australian Information Industry Association's executive director, Rob Durie, said today.

  • Budget 2007: IT misses out on windfall

    The biggest loser in this week's budget was broadband -- not one cent was allocated to improve infrastructure works. However, security was the winner with funding confirmed to fight intellectual property crime and cyber-terrorist attacks.

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

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    Government departments have shed their initial reluctance to use open source technologies, but the problem persists -- how do you determine appropriate usage?

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    The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.

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