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    An intensifying assault on the security of Australians' identification and financial information should push government and industry to embrace biometric technologies, a leading expert in the area said today.

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    A new survey has found that IT companies expect to hire less staff in the coming quarter while they await the impact of the federal government's spending reviews and monitor the current crisis in the US financial services sector.

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    CIOs of top Australian organisations spilled the beans to ZDNet.com.au on what they think of the 3G iPhone, and whether they will let the device, launched early this morning, into their enterprise.

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    In an industry known for its hype, it's understandably difficult for many managers to make sense of new trends. But in the case of IT Infrastructure Library, a growing body of success stories confirms this is one trend that you should definitely be on top of.

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  • Q&A: BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp

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    It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

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    It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.

  • E-biz: Going mobile

    Online businesses are scrambling to get their Web sites on every pager, PDA and mobile phone. But they're learning that today's mobile technologies go only so far.

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