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.
It's all texting, e-mailing and accessing the Internet this Valentines' Day, with vendors claiming a huge surge in traffic on the biggest day of the year for romantics. However, Australia Post reckons going virtual with your message of love is "taking the easy way out" and your best bet is the old-fashioned card or letter.
The Monash Medical Centre's neurology ward in Melbourne is trialling the use of wireless and healthcare mobility applications for patient care.
A medium of communication is rapidly gaining popularity in the upper echelons of corporate America.
Thanks to e-mail, we all have thousands of "contacts," but in some ways, this newfound popularity makes it harder to keep up with our true friends.
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When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.
Intel's announcements at its 2007 Developer Forum in San Francisco centred around the availability of its Penryn processors later this year and future plans for its Nehalem microarchitecture, but CEO Paul Otellini also used the opening keynote to show off some cool prototypes and other fancy equipment.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation have made data retention a hot topic. But about the flip side of the coin -- what happens when your data has finally served its purpose?
We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.
When Windows XP SP2 is installed on a Tablet PC, this is essentially an OS upgrade to TPC Edition 2005. But beware -- it might cause some problems.
Jim Marggraff, CEO of Livescribe, shows off the 2GB, Java-capable Pulse Smartpen at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The pen records audio as the user takes handwritten notes, then synchs up the sound with the writing. Audio can then be played back when someone taps the pen on paper....
The HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless makes a convincing inkjet argument for offices with a high volume of prints. With a function touchscreen, multiple networking options and an astoundingly fast print speed, it makes perfect sense to give this workhorse an Editors' Choice award.
The Officejet J6480 is Hewlett-Packard's newest all-in-one printer with a host of features designed to appeal to small-to-midsize businesses that want a low-cost, feature-rich device capable of handling projects across the board. The price and features set make the J6480 one of our favourite do-it-all devices.
Are you looking for a new IP phone for your office? Aastra's 53i is an attractive and very usable phone without the shocking price tag.
We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.
The ThinkPad X41 Tablet promises to bring the dependability and security we love about ThinkPads to a tablet PC.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
Vice President of Product Marketing Sundar Pichai gives a virtual tour of Google's new operating system, Chrom… Watch it now
Malcolm Turnbull's ghost twitterer
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Surf the Net like it's 1991 with Gopher
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