A national telephone warning system to alert people to a bushfire emergency will begin operating next week.
Ashley Towns, the Australian behind the ikee iPhone worm that replaced the background picture of insecure jailbroken iPhones, has reportedly been hired by Sydney company mogeneration.
Confidential personal information gathered by Victorian government agencies "can be, and has been, easily compromised", according to a report published today by the state's Auditor General.
Victoria Police's IT division under disgraced chief information officer Valda Berzins had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management", a new report has revealed, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.
Chief information officers from two of Australia's largest banks today warned their peers not to poison outsourcing arrangements by obsessing over costs.
I've been playing around with a beta build of Firefox's 3.6 browser for some time, and while it's been completely stable, its new tab behaviour has annoyed me.
Why would Channel 10 bother with a Web site for its new drama series when there's Wikipedia? Well, here are several reasons.
Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
Is online identity theft as rife as the widespread media reports would suggest? We find out whether the risks are real.
Microsoft's quick-fix Windows security patches seem to be creating problems of their own, so is it wrong for them to be released in the first place?
The handheld maker used to be the king of the hill. So how did it tumble into Microsoft's arms?
Sun's $4.1 billion buyout of StorageTek is a huge bet: It's the last cash deal that size Sun will be able to make.
The spread of convenient wireless LANs has delighted hackers, who find many WLANs vulnerable. Managing and securing a wireless network is therefore vital, but rarely done well. ZDNet Australia compares the offerings from AirDefense and AirMagnet.
Commentary--At first, I thought the iPod Mini was a really good idea. Then a really stupid one. Then I started to appreciate where Apple's going with it.
Want a wireless router that doesn't trade price for performance? This 802.11g silver box from Netgear may be just what you need.
Pricing for Microsoft Office 2003 has appeared online together with a heavy hint at its release date, in what appears to be the latest e-commerce blunder.
Netscape these days survives as a desolate outpost in the vast AOL Time Warner empire, something akin to banishment to Irkutsk. But what if history had a different twist?
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