Though the dreadful possibility of layoffs looms over many companies, there are other ways to achieve a cheaper and more productive workforce: enabling them to work from home.
Ten years ago they were the young turks of Australia's business community; radical free-thinkers on the path to fame and riches. Shortly after, all those dreams came crashing down. But where are Australia's first dotcom moguls today, and what are they up to?
Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
Internet companies are still regularly going out of business, but the overall collapse appears to be bottoming out.
A patch for a security flaw that affects Microsoft's Web server software running on Windows 2000 has caused system freezes for some customers, the company said Thursday.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed that commercial adoption of various computer technologies has stalled. The ABS' revelation was contained in its latest assessment of Business Use of Information Technology (BUIT), released yesterday.
Software giant claims businesses will rush to upgrade to Vista, but analysts paint a different picture.
Microsoft issues another herd of vulnerability reports, including a "critical" security hole in numerous Office applications that could let a hacker take control of a PC.
The publisher of two pro-jihad Web sites has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism-related activities, US investigators said on Friday.
A mobile telecommunications revolution in Africa is bringing new economic opportunities to the world's most impoverished continent, while providing lessons that can help carriers around the world push into other low-value markets. Brad Howarth reports.
Eric Benhamou, former chief executive of both 3Com and Palm, has just joined the board of Finjan and taken a minority stake in the web security company through his venture capital fund, Benhamou Global Ventures.
The Northern Territory government has released details of its four-year, $35 million per annum desktop sourcing tender.
Victorian demand for ICT professionals marginally improved during the first half of 2003, "but it is still a buyer's market".
Viruses continue to swarm corporations, with roughly 1.2 million incidents occurring in a 20-month period, according to a new study.
Growing numbers of CIOs are re-evaluating their IT budgets and spending plans for coming months, according to one market analyst.
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