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  • G'day UK: Google Oz wants top techies back home

    There's nothing wrong with senior Australian engineers, they just lack "world class experience", according to Google Australia's head of engineering, Alan Noble. Now he's heading to the UK to poach senior engineers from Australia's ex-pat community.

  • Open source geeks asked to 'stand up and be counted'

    Australians working with open source software are urged to participate in an online census launched this week to discover the capabilities of the local industry.

  • Google sneaks into Australia unannounced

    Having taken control of the google.com.au domain name earlier this year, the company has conducted a quiet launch of its renowned Googleplex search capabilities into the Australian market.

  • Typhoid, typhoons and murder: tales of a roving IT consultant

    While most of us are confined to our cubicles, Australian IT consultant Maria Laracy has actually managed to break out of the box - and use her skills as a ticket to see the world.

  • Is the expat experience still an option?

    Eighteen months ago the dot-com boom was luring IT-savvy Australians all over the globe and providing them with attractive salaries and living arrangements, but overseas demand for Australian IT talent has since waned substantially.

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  • Is the expat experience still an option?

    Eighteen months ago the dot-com boom was luring IT-savvy Australians all over the globe and providing them with attractive salaries and living arrangements, but overseas demand for Australian IT talent has since waned substantially.

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  • Penguin-powered iPod? Sort of

    An Australian ex-pat engineer manages to get Apple's portable MP3 player to run basic parts of the uClinux version of the Linux operating system. But it's only a rough start, he says.

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