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  • Vic CIO's office: We're still here

    Victoria's state Office of the Chief Information Officer has maintained it will continue to fulfil its original role despite structural changes after the state election late last year.

  • Linux lab mending fences with techies

    The Open Source Development Labs, an organisation devoted to improving Linux, has launched a technical advisory board to try to foster better relations with programmers, who at times have been peeved with the industry-funded group.

  • Linux lab lays off programmers

    The Open Source Development Labs, the organisation that employs Linux leader Linus Torvalds, has laid off nearly a sixth of its staff as part of a shift to new priorities.

  • NICTA develops tool belt for telco network woes

    NICTA is developing two new products to expand the telco industry's high-speed network monitoring capabilities.

  • Aussie monitoring increases broadband bandwidth

    A NICTA spin-off company, Monitoring Division, has developed a new fibre optic monitoring system that could help bring Australia broadband users closer to the rest of the world.

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  • 'The Sims' goes bonkers

    Mental lapses and warped childhoods add to the fun, explains creator Will Wright.

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

  • BI offers big returns for NSW's StateFleet

    Government fleet management body StateFleet relies on business intelligence tools to increase its forecasting accuracy in an effort to save millions of dollars annually.

  • The rights and wrongs of WiMax

    When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?

  • Australian registry going global?

    An Australian domain name registry is looking to leverage its technical experience Down Under in a bid to become the registry for global top-level domain .org.

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