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• E-Health: Australia's $5bn black hole

  Australia's health sector has made only "marginal" progress towards being able to exchange information electronically, despite governments investing more than $5 billion in the field over the last 10 years, according to a report released late last week.

• Hadron Collider gets hacked

  Hackers have reportedly broken into a computer system at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, targeting a system that was "one step away" from a control computer, but otherwise appear to have done no major damage.

• Aussie link-up eyes off supermassive black holes

  A first-time collaboration between Australian, Chinese and Japanese scientists has allowed new high-resolution images of black holes to be produced by linking together radio telescopes.

• DSTO's budget trimmed to fill defence 'black holes'

  The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) budget was cut back five percent by the Treasurer Budget day; that money has been earmarked for filling defence funding "black holes".

• VMware spotlights virtual security black hole

  VMware's new security feature, VMsafe, is a major improvement to security in a virtual environment because it allows visibility of incoming data, say analysts.

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  CDMA? Enough of the bad language

  The day of reckoning finally arrived for CDMA -- and was then postponed, leaving everyone with any strong feeling on the subject a nice window of three months to once again enjoy the semantic back-and-forth the closure provokes.

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• No thanks Google, we've got Ubuntu

  Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.

• 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.

• Is that a desktop in your pocket?

  Virtual servers have changed the way businesses are run. Now, virtualisation vendors have set their sights on your PC.

• Apple breaks silence on security

  Bud Tribble, a key engineer behind Mac OS X, explains that the security flap around Apple is more hysteria than reality.

• The risk of IT

  Some high-profile IT disasters have made boards of directors highly sensitive to risky IT rollouts. We look at how IT affects the bottom line, and how CIOs can progress with IT projects while avoiding disastrous implementations.

Reviews (9)

• BigPond Next G Wireless Broadband Mobile Card

  Fancy a 1.3Mbps broadband pipeline direct to your notebook, without a cable in sight? The new BigPond wireless data card makes good on Telstra's lofty promises for its Next G network.

• Unwired Wireless Card

  While the speed and pricing plans make it appealing for those who aren't deskbound, Unwired's Wireless Card is cruelled by the lack of true mobility and the Sydney-only coverage, which itself is undeniably patchy.

• Find it fast: six apps that search your hard drive

  Need to find a specific e-mail message or file on your hard drive? You're not alone. Fortunately, six new localised-search apps let you search your hard drive. Read on to find out more.

• Avert your eyes! 4 Net filters reviewed

  Always a contentious topic, we look server-based Internet content filters and some of the reasons why your organisation might want one, or not.

• How to improve your Outlook

  For many of us, Microsoft Outlook is as much as part of the workplace as cubicle walls and funny grey carpet. But perfect it's not. Here are some fixes for its most frustrating flaws.

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