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• US$30 billion US homeland security market opens up -- a little

  Despite announcing yesterday that the US$30 billion US homeland security sector is open to Australian technology suppliers, the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) has admitted that suppliers face regulatory restrictions and stiff competition with companies from up to 60 other countries on the US government tender list.

• Defining the deficit

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

• Australia: get over the tall poppy syndrome

  Developing new technologies is high on the list of achievements for a number of other countries. How does Australia rate in comparison?

• Sun settles export violation charges

  Sun Microsystems has agreed to pay US$291,000 in fines to settle U.S. Commerce Department charges that the server maker violated rules in exporting equipment to China and Egypt.

• Sun Grid to launch in US this week

  Sun Microsystems plans to open its much-delayed public Sun Grid this week or next, letting people use PayPal to buy processing cycles, company president Jonathan Schwartz said.

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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

  As CSIRO stands firm on its refusal to freely license key patents relating to WLANs, I'm reminded of the joke: what do you get when you grab a man by the testicles? The answer: his full attention.

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  When did coding become a dirty word?

  Nobody ever said that writing integration code was fun, but maybe it's time that vendors recognised that it's still an important task in most IT departments.

Features and Case Studies (74)

• Defining the deficit

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

• A billion PC users on the way

  By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work.

• Six CRM packages tested

  CRM packages are everywhere these days. Which one is right for your organisation?

• Hands off my assets: 6 asset management packages tested

  Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?

• Succeeding in integration: Part three

  In this third instalment of our ongoing series, we take a look at four integration projects, the problems they faced, and how the organisations involved overcame them.

Reviews (60)

• Six CRM packages tested

  CRM packages are everywhere these days. Which one is right for your organisation?

• Hands off my assets: 6 asset management packages tested

  Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?

• Four network maintenance tools tested

  We look at three hardware tools and one software tool for network maintenance.

• Archiving: what's in store?

  Tape, disk, or optical? We set a budget of AU$20,000 and asked three vendors to come up with a storage solution.

• Stop spam at the server: 5 packages tested

  Spam drives users crazy, makes life difficult for mail administrators, and drives up costs. We evaluate five packages that aim to ease the burden on your mail servers.

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