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  • Teachers told: Cash in or lose chance at laptops

    Minister for Education Julia Gillard has written to secondary school principals across Australia inviting them to participate in the Labor government's so-called "digital education revolution".

  • Gartner Symposium 2007: Complete coverage

    News and video from Gartner's Symposium event, which is being held in Sydney this week.

  • Defence Force enlists SHIRLOC for detective work

    The Department of Defence has announced that its R&D division, the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, has developed a PDA device that could soon be used to give personnel in the field better local information.

  • Tasmanian Govt appoints hardware panel

    The Tasmanian Government has announced a list of technology hardware resellers and approved manufacturers to supply hardware to government agencies over the next five years.

  • Huawei denies 'ludicrous' espionage claims

    Chinese networking vendor Huawei has slammed as "ludicrous and inaccurate" claims that it had links to the Chinese military and government that could cause security problems for the National Broadband Network.

Blogs (6)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    A testimonial bites back

    Never have I seen a stranger vendor "testimonial" given than that by the NSW Department of Primary Industry's Warwick Lill of Sun Microsystems at Gartner's datacentre summit last week.

  • Read the blog post - Alex Serpo

    Will the NSW Govt put Linux in schools?

    The NSW Government's release this week of an expressions of interest tender to give low-cost laptops to every senior public school student in NSW is a big step, but will these systems be Windows or Linux?

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Going green for IT

    According to research firm Gartner, by 2010 75 percent of organisations will use "full life cycle energy" and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    The Aussie dollar and ICT

    With the Australian Dollar breaking the 92 US cents barrier recently, and predictions it could reach parity with the US Dollar by Christmas, there's good news and bad news for the ICT industry.

Features and Case Studies (229)

  • City of Melbourne gets singular on the desktop

    When you're in charge of buying 2,000 desktops should you go for an assortment of vendors, or stick to just one? City of Melbourne's desktop services manager, Ashe Potter, says using a single supplier is cheaper, easier and less hassle to manage.

  • Ten things holding back tech

    Ever get the feeling that we aren't quite yet where we want to be? Here are 10 factors that may be holding back the world's technological development.

  • Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

    After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.

  • Looking for business PCs under $2K?

    We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance.

  • Intrusion detection systems reviewed

    Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.

Reviews (106)

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