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  • Victoria Police cut crime with data warehousing

    A revamped data warehouse is helping Victoria Police to reduce crime rates and has delivered AU$2 million in productivity benefits, despite a lack of initial budget planning which threatened to derail the project early on.

  • QLD police charge Nigerian scammers

    The Queensland police have charged two people for allegedly conducting a Nigerian scam operation as well as a further four people for using credit cards with skimmed data.

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    Who exactly is new Westpac IT executive Sarv Girn, who has newly been poached from Commonwealth Bank of Australia? Is he just a point man for the IT integration of St George, or is he "McKinnon's magician", the boy genius who will lead the bank to its IT nirvana?

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

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    In this special report, ZDNet Australia presents a three-part exclusive video interview with Westpac Bank chief information security officer, David Backley, in addition to tips and reviews for businesses to thwart security attacks.

  • Legal minefield for Twitter celebrity fakers

    The emergence of online social communities, micro-blogging sites and user-generated content has generated a new wave of legal issues.

  • Why Windows 7 should be free in China

    Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?

  • Is Brown Qld Health's white knight?

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  • Practical nanotechnology

    Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?

  • The PC-to-Mobile connection

    The mobile phone may not yet be your all-in-one communications device, but some very innovative Web sites are making the PC-to-mobile connection a very attractive way to stay in touch.

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