The South African government said on Tuesday that it is to adopt Open Document Format as its preferred standard for software interoperability.
The federal government is ramping up the information technology component of a project to tighten criminal and security checks on people working at ports and airports.
The federal government has moved to fulfil a pre-election commitment to train purchasing officers to better assess risk when making ICT procurement decisions.
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.
Queensland never does anything by halves.
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.
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.
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.
Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.
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.
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