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• Graphics Wars: which vendors are winning?

  While the tide of technological delivery continues to shift, four graphics software vendors struggle for supremacy. ZDNet Australia profiles the leading combatants.

• Berzins' blunders: Police ignored tender rules

  Victoria Police's IT division under disgraced chief information officer Valda Berzins had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management", a new report has revealed, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.

• Customs security chief paints sober picture

  Hackers have started to target specific government personnel, as opposed to simply using broad scattergun approaches, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service warned this week.

• Privacy rules for a Web 2.0 world

  Former privacy commissioner Malcolm Crompton says governments are not doing enough to attract citizens to use their online services due to an overly risk-averse and closed-minded approach to liability and privacy.

• Half of Australians use e-government services

  Confidence in e-government services is increasing, according to a government survey, which found that 48 percent of Australians have accessed them in the past year.

Blogs (3)

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  Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

  Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.

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  Do we need the legislative blackmail?

  Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.

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  Seven vividly proves WiMax not dead yet

  It wasn't too long ago that critics of WiMax wireless technology were declaring it dead at the starting gate.

Features and Case Studies (33)

• Crown copyright still a challenge

  In the tragic circumstances that unfolded in Victoria on Black Saturday, no one could deny that as the fires raced across public land towards their homes, those residents had a clear right to information.

• CenITex needs to be governed for success

  Victoria appears set to leap into a new phase of government ICT with the creation of shared technology services agency CenITex, but challenges remain.

• How corporate Australia battles information overload

  We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

• ACMA link removal: A free speech analysis

  Electronic Frontiers Australia has complied with a notice by the nation's communications regulator to delete a link from its site. But, the organisation writes, the action raises serious freedom of speech and freedom of political communication issues.

• Taking out the trash

  If mainstream media cannot be trusted to provide an objective, poison-free analysis of the issues of the day, then it is the responsibility of this government specifically, my department to come to the citizenry's rescue.

Reviews (9)

• Graphics Wars: which vendors are winning?

  While the tide of technological delivery continues to shift, four graphics software vendors struggle for supremacy. ZDNet Australia profiles the leading combatants.

• Intel, Red Hat cure open-source hiccup

  Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.

• Is that a computer in your pocket? 6 mobile devices tested

  Choosing a portable computing device is getting trickier -- we take a variety of devices for a spin and weight up the pros and cons.

• Bandwidth buffering solved

  For Australia's remote rural web users, relying on a dial-up modem has meant that video technology is still a long way off.

• Gaining access

  Office equipment is getting easier and easier to use, but just how accessible is it for the wider population?

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