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  • Technology one of the good sports for ASC

    The CIO of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), the federal government's sports administration and advisory agency, lifts the lid on the technology powering our elite athletes.

  • Microsoft acknowledges security talks with Defence Signals Dept

    Microsoft has acknowledged preliminary talks over its newly-launched global Government Security Program (GSP) with the agency charged with assessing the security of software products for Australian federal government usage.

  • Everything is big in Queensland

    Queensland never does anything by halves.

  • NSA plays 'war games' to teach network security

    The National Security Agency may be known for its stealthy eavesdropping techniques, but it's going public with advice for how to train a new generation to defend against computer threats.

  • NSW government signs open standards desktop deal

    Sun Microsystems has scored a publicity coup ahead of the much-heralded arrival of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in Australia, with a NSW government minister announcing today Sun would replace Microsoft in providing an e-mail and calendar system across 1,500 users in the state Roads and Traffic Authority.

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Features and Case Studies (108)

  • Thin clients a permanent fixture at Maroochy Shire

    New technology gains legitimacy when it solves real business problems, but becomes indispensable when it offers to take that business in completely new directions. Such has been the case at Maroochy Shire Council, where a quite conventional thin-client rollout is now facilitating new ways of working for employees in the office and on the road.

  • Customs: Murray Harrison, CIO

    Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.

  • Department of Defence: Greg Farr, CIO (part one)

    Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.

  • 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.

  • How AUSTRAC avoided a BlackBerry jam

    A government e-mail systems lockdown has kept popular BlackBerry handhelds off-limits at many Australian government departments, but a simple fix has changed that.

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Reviews (47)

  • Corel WordPerfect Office 11

    Current WordPerfect customers should certainly upgrade to Office 11.0. But SOHO users won't need some of the functionality.

  • Sharper than your average server: 3 Blades tested

    Vendors are hyping blade servers as the latest and greatest, but do you really need them? We put blade servers from three vendors through their paces and find out what the big deal is.

  • What was that again? 3 backup packages tested

    It's official: backup software packages have the longest product names in the business. We evaluate three leading packages to find out which suits the medium-sized business.

  • Hands up! This is a RAID!

    Five products for when your servers need a little extra storage space.

  • Google Docs

    Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.

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