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  • TechOne beats Civica to council job

    Business software vendor TechnologyOne has scored a deal with Wangaratta city council worth more than AU$1.1 million.

  • Civica in local acquisitions

    British software provider Civica today claimed to have acquired an 80 per cent market share in IT services for Queensland councils after the acquisition of Practical Computer Services.

  • Victorian council opts for DataWorks

    Melton Shire Council in Victoria has signed a AU$750,000 deal with Avand for content management software that will drive a three year project to overhaul workflow.

  • EU council endorses patent bill

    The EU Council has approved a controversial proposal on software patents, despite opposition from numerous software developers and some European countries.

  • Amsterdam to evaluate open source

    The city of Amsterdam has become the latest high-profile public sector organisation to evaluate the potential of open-source software.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    No sex please, we're Labor

    The council rubbish truck didn't pick up my bin last week. Instead, the garbage contractor left a big yellow sticker highlighting exactly why my old egg shells, rancid fruit, microwave pizza boxes, an ancient and smelly pair of sneakers, and the odd brick had been left to rot on my property.

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  • Bankstown print refresh boosts green space

    For Bankstown City Council, a 170,000-resident council south-west of Sydney, a desire to regain control of its printing environment -- and to reduce its impact on the environment -- recently led to a complete reconsideration of its printing, scanning and faxing processes.

  • The importance of IP in Australia

    With an increase in patent activity across the globe, we ask if businesses need to be concerned with their intellectual property.

  • Repairs under way for server speed tests

    Current tests haven't kept pace with server technology, but an industry consortium is coming to the rescue.

  • Australia: SAP vs Oracle

    SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.

  • The war on file sharing hits Australia

    Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?

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  • Apple moves to support DVD+RW format

    After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system.

  • Opteron launches amidst benchmark fanfare

    AMD has released its Opteron processor, and several companies have also announced products based on the chip.

  • PCs: Keeping IT green

    While recycling is all fine and good, before we go to the trouble of ripping an item to bits and making it into something else ," there is an intermediate stage: Reuse!

  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

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