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  • Qantas to deploy faster check-in technology

    Qantas says it is aiming to halve check-in times for customers at CityFlyer ports with new technology to be rolled out across Australia.

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    From Friday, Fujitsu's Kaz and Supply Chain brands would cease to exist, being relabelled as Fujitsu, the company said today.

  • Visa Australia kills signatures by 2013

    Visa Australia said today it was moving to chip and PIN technology for all of its credit cards, with signature transactions to be banned by April 2013.

  • ANZ boosts offshore jobs, IT spend

    Australia and New Zealand Banking Group chief executive Mike Smith said today he'd look to harbour more of its operations offshore in the future as he also discussed details of the bank's beefed up technology spend.

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    Apple has revealed Australian pricing details for the new hardware line-up it announced overnight in the US, with the vendor's new low-end MacBook laptop starting at AU$1299.

Blogs (55)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

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    It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    How good are USB video cards?

    Are cheap external USB video cards good enough to power an extra monitor or five, and what are their pitfalls? Won't handle 3D acceleration? Take up valuable CPU cycles? Leave dirty dishes around your desk and have a bad odour?

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Non-professional Oracle wrestling

    The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Ash Wednesday for Telstra's shareholders

    Shareholders got a rude awakening this week as Stephen Conroy made good on industry calls to break up Telstra. Some argue the government has been duplicitous and should be held to account, but those who sit tight may find the new Telstra offers a far better value proposition with better long-term opportunities.

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    Snow Leopard bites Office 2008

    Feeding Snow Leopard with juicy Office 2008 discs caused a few problems for our New Zealand correspondent.

Features and Case Studies (565)

  • Framed for child porn - by a PC virus

    Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

  • The best VoIP solution is ...

    The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.

  • AFP's high-tech unit let Rome burn

    The "Anonymous" hacker group gave Australia's police forces a month's warning that it was going to attack the Federal Government. Why didn't the Australian Federal Police's electronic crimes unit do anything about it?

  • Tech.Ed 2009: Photo gallery

    The 2009 edition of Microsoft's premier Australian developer conference, Tech.Ed, kicked off this morning at the Gold Coast with over 2000 attendees on hand.

  • Did Australian Police raid a script kiddie?

    The footage Four Corners displayed of a suspected Melbourne fraudster's house and technology during a police raid last week hardly fits the profile of a master fraudster.

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  • What's next for SIM cards?

    At JavaOne in San Francisco, Telenor's Fritjof Bogner Engelhardtsen and Sun's James Gosling look at a new experimental development platform for SIM cards. The Java platform allows programmers to design new mobile services including adding sensors and Wi-Fi radio directly on the card.

  • New 15-inch MacBook Pro revealed

    At WWDC 2009, Apple unveiled the new 15-inch Macbook Pro. The new laptop comes with a better battery, SD Card slot and a new processor.

  • Apple updates MacBook Pro

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the next-generation MacBook Pro with a new aluminum body, a 15-inch display, a multitouch trackpad, and a faster graphics card.

  • Wii remote creates $50 digital whiteboard: IDF

    Intel chairman Craig Barrett introduces innovative projects such as a $50 digital whiteboard created from a Wii remote, and a mobile phone that can read bar codes on a health ID card.

  • CIO View: Don't outsource your security!

    With millions of customers at AGL paying by credit card, Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, explains the importance of security and why outsourcing it is a bad idea. Tizi also talks about why Australia should implement stringent data disclosure laws.

Reviews (1930)

  • Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2

    Lenovo's popular IdeaPad S10-2 netbook has been slimmed down and its price reduced, making it a better netbook as long as you can live without ExpressCard.

  • Samsung S6700T

    If you're looking for an inexpensive phone with a nice, simple interface and a decent number of features, you won't be disappointed with the Samsung S6700T.

  • HP ProBook 4310s

    If you find that the price is right and you are only planning on doing menial tasks, you could do a lot worse than the HP ProBook.

  • Lexmark Prestige Pro805

    The Pro805 frustrates as much as it innovates with a touchscreen interface and an interesting, iPhone-style app store.

  • Dell Vostro 320

    While a few tweaks such as an in-built wireless receiver for keyboard/mouse and a video input so it could double as a monitor for your laptop would be nice, if you're looking for a cheap all-in-one PC, it's hard to ignore the Vostro 320 as an option.

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