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  • Aust healthcare IT in critical condition

    The healthcare industry faces a major crisis and could place patients at risk if it doesn't significantly enhance its use of information technology, an Australian expert has warned.

  • Microsoft: 'Linux is more of a threat than before'

    The best way to get a great deal with Microsoft may be to say you're seriously considering Linux - which is why Microsoft spent Thursday dispelling the 'myth' of open source.

  • Microsoft to talk open computing in government

    The software giant will sit down this April with policy makers, IT officials and open source vendors at the second Open Computing in Government Conference in Canberra to talk about how open computing can aid in the provision of services by government.

  • Macs get crypto key to government budgets

    Macs are a step closer to being accepted in government agencies, which usually require a full-disk encryption tool to protect sensitive data, after Check Point announced Pointsec for Apple's Leopard and Tiger operating systems.

  • Ballmer: Microsoft needs better sales pitch

    Microsoft needs to do a better job of convincing customers that the latest versions of its products are worth having, CEO Steve Ballmer said in a companywide e-mail on Tuesday.

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  • Linux brings hope to Spain's poor

    The rural Spanish region of Extremadura has seized on the potential of open-source software to improve the lot of its citizens and kick start the local economy.

  • Migration news: Windows to Linux, and vice versa

    Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?

  • Photos: CeBIT Australia 2007

    CeBIT Australia is on again for 2007 with hundreds of IT products and services on display in addition to the conference, keynotes and forums. Join us as we take a photo tour of the exhibition halls.

  • Intel's medical ambitions

    In the future, your hospital room will be online, and so will your gastric system.

  • Australia: SAP vs Oracle

    SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.

Reviews (4)

  • InterSystems launches CACH 2007

    InterSystems launches CACH 2007, the latest update to their post-relational database product.

  • Intel gets inside life sciences

    Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.

  • Wireless crackdown

    The spread of convenient wireless LANs has delighted hackers, who find many WLANs vulnerable. Managing and securing a wireless network is therefore vital, but rarely done well. ZDNet Australia compares the offerings from AirDefense and AirMagnet.

  • Encryption packages: Beyond the code

    Trying to keep corporate secrets away from prying eyes? We evaluate five encryption software packages

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