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  • Government releases Web development guide

    The federal government has released a new online guide designed to help public servants meet their legal and policy obligations when designing Web sites.

  • Labor fires first tech shots in official election fight

    On the first official day of the federal election campaign, Labor has placed IT at the centre of its agenda for growth, issuing a challenge to the Coalition on broadband and procurement.

  • NT government forges ahead on VoIP

    The Northern Territory (NT) government is targeting user support and governance as critical to the success of a looming territory-wide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) rollout.

  • Feds release public service ID management plans

    The federal government has moved to set minimum standards across its agencies for checking employees or contractors are who they claim to be and that their qualifications are genuine.

  • Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs

    Staff at the UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were unable to use their PCs last week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the PC in the sprawling department, which numbers some 100,000 employees.

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  • Degradation of independence

    Technology is a catalyst for business change, but that change doesn't always sit well with departments that have their own sovereignty to look after. David Braue asks whether IT can be centralised and distributed at the same time.

  • Anti-Linux response: The FUD-slinging continues

    Con Zymaris, CEO of Australian IT services company CyberSource, attempts to set the record straight over recent industry comments that his company is muddying the waters when it comes to determining the true cost of corporate open source deployment.

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