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    Queensland Government is looking to push the state's technology exports, with the launch of an ICT export portal yesterday.

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  • Victorian ICT plan boosts skills

    Victoria plans to allocate nearly AU$2 million to an industry skills package for the state's technology students under measures announced today in its five year plan for the information technology and communications (ICT) sector.

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  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Tax Office needs to rethink open source objections

    The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to security fears, with the code not subject to enough "technical scrutiny".

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    As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.

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    Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?

    One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?

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    Remember the Ala-MIMO

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    Australia has a $14 billion trade deficit in ICT products and services, but is it something we need to worry about?

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    Over the last few years we've made a few statements about the requirement for ICT to make it onto the national agenda as a foreign policy issue. Two clear areas stand out as worth exploring.

  • 10 ideas for Australian ICT policy

    There is currently a great deal of gloom and doom about the state of the Australian ICT sector. Here's 10 ideas for moving ahead.

  • Data migration tough but essential for government dept

    The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) is no stranger to electronic record keeping, but in 2002 it realised that some of its most crucial information might soon become inaccessible.

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    StarOffice 8 is an impressive upgrade of Sun's bargain productivity suite, and a good buy for small and large businesses since it costs a fraction of the price of its main competitor, Microsoft Office 2003.

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  • Camera-phones must 'click' in Korea

    The Korean government has ruled that by next year, domestic manufacturers must ensure that mobile phones emit a loud shutter-like click or noise when the camera is activated.

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  • OpenOffice ready for world tour

    The organization behind OpenOffice on Wednesday released a trial version of one of the first major updates to the free open-source office software. A beta release of version 1.1 of OpenOffice is available now from OpenOffice.org.

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