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  • Hacking outside the box

    How do you protect yourself from the smooth-talking hacker whose only "tools" might be a floppy disk and a smile?

  • Governance, modelling unravel Coles-Myer's application 'hairball'

    With 15 brands and more than 2500 retail outlets across Australia generating AU$36 billion in annual sales, IT at the country's largest retailer was always going to be complicated.

  • ICT sunrise -- start planting

    The economic outlook is extremely hopeful; but are we doing everything we can to make sure it lasts?

  • Licensed to ITIL

    Companies are increasingly adhering to ITIL standards. Just how can ITIL offer real benefits to your business and provide you with better IT service?

  • Hunt on for federal CIO

    The federal government has advertised for a whole-of-government chief information officer (CIO), kick-starting a process delayed by the election, Ministerial shifts and agency restructuring.

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  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Conroy's filtering plan: security worries

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed "improvements" in ISP filtering technologies, but will a broad-scale roll-out make ISPs a thief's favourite target?

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    MySpace: One small step for politicians

    Finally, after months of the Clintons posting Sopranos-style satires and Obama Girl grabbing the headlines during the American presidential race, Australian politicians have switched on to the power of the Internet.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Budgeting for a skills shortage

    There is no technology skills crisis ... yet, according to a senior government technology official.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Time to snack on some tech TV?

    While most of the Australian press is going nuts analysing what proposed changes to media ownership laws might mean for their job futures, I want to look at a narrower question: could this pave the way for our first dedicated technology channel on free-to-air TV?

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  • The cuture vultures: Managing cultural change

    New technologies have changed just about every aspect of workplace culture. But how long can we go on with these changes without close examination of their overall effect?

  • Degradation of independence

    Technology is a catalyst for business change, but that change doesn't always sit well with departments that have their own sovereignty to look after. David Braue asks whether IT can be centralised and distributed at the same time.

  • An eye for an aye

    Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

  • Licensed to ITIL

    Companies are increasingly adhering to ITIL standards. Just how can ITIL offer real benefits to your business and provide you with better IT service?

  • CenITex needs to be governed for success

    Victoria appears set to leap into a new phase of government ICT with the creation of shared technology services agency CenITex, but challenges remain.

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