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News (27)

• Australia's banks get IT transfusion

  National Australia Bank took the knife to its long-time chief information officer Michelle Tredenick this week, but was this a reflection of her perceived incompetence or simply a consequence of the manoeuvring at higher levels that seems endemic in Australia's incestuous banking IT community?

• Microsoft blames users for malware on Vista PCs

  Around 70 percent of Windows Vista on home systems are infected with malware, according to PC Tools, which claims the figure is so high because UAC is very annoying and users are disabling the security feature.

• Microsoft resumes bashing open source

  Will Microsoft lay down its arms, embrace open source and help Thunderbird programmers get their software working with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software, or fight them on the beaches?

• Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" a step closer

  Ubuntu developers are finalising preparations for the release of the next version -- dubbed Feisty Fawn -- of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April.

• Keylogger infections up 50 percent: Websense

  The number of companies reporting spyware infestation has increased by just under 50 percent over the past 12 months, according to a survey released by Internet security specialists Websense.

Features and Case Studies (4)

• Adobe's licensing needs an overhaul

  Why won't Adobe make licensing its software easier for school IT directors?

• Changing of the guard: Westpac

  Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

• Photo gallery: Wacky laptop tricks

  Rich Anderson, an instructor at Dunwoody College, has put together a gallery of wild and crazy ways to use your laptop.

• Double-gate chip stops power leakage

  IBM scientists have made a working RAM chip with two gates for conducting electricity, but problems remain in developing a manufacturing process.

Reviews (8)

• First Take: Panasonic Toughbook CF-51

  You can't hose it off like its predecessors, but Panasonic's Toughbook CF-51 has been built strong enough to take more than its share of punishment.

• Did I just do that?

  Commentary-- Killing a notebook is so spectacularly easy, I'm surprised it hasn't become a spectator sport.

• Nanowire or nanotube? Intel looks ahead

  The nanotechnology era is here, and Intel is looking at all the options. Penny-sized weather sensors, cheap technology for all -- the future looks bright!

• Intel to unveil nanotech plans

  The chipmaker is set to give an idea of what will power its chips in the future as it discusses nanotechnology at its developer conference next week.

• Ban Outlook--now

  Steven Vaughan-Nichols says the easiest way to combat Outlook worms is by getting rid of the program. But for IT managers whose users are addicted to Outlook, here's how you can sidestep those security holes.

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