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• The war on file sharing hits Australia

  Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?

• How dirty is Victoria Police's laundry?

  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.

• CIO profile: Tony Clasquin of Bankwest

  If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".

• Pipe Networks sell-out an absolute travesty

  The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.

• How effective is endpoint security?

  Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.

• Raising the mid-market ICT bar

  There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.

• iiNet's copyright crucible heats up

  The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) hunt for Australia's third largest internet service provider iiNet is set to resume on Monday, with all eyes on its managing director Michael Malone as he takes the stand.

• Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

  Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

• Conroy on Minchin's 'Luddite' delays

  This afternoon Communications Minister Stephen Conroy described his opposite, Senator Nick Minchin, as a Luddite as he took questions from reporters on the Opposition's attempt to block the government's wide-ranging telecommunications industry reform legislation, which includes provisions to force the break-up of Telstra.

• Adobe's licensing needs an overhaul

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

• Oracle OpenWorld 2009: Photo gallery

  There are large conferences, and then there is Oracle OpenWorld. A mega-conference that sees over 40,000 attendees descend on San Francisco.

• Fostering a better Kaz future with Fujitsu

  For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.

• 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.

• Pirates should abandon the federal ship

  The Pirate Party of Australia should forget about trying to win a Senate seat in the Federal Government and instead focus its sights on even lower hanging fruit. I speak, of course, of the state governments.

• Legal minefield for Twitter celebrity fakers

  The emergence of online social communities, micro-blogging sites and user-generated content has generated a new wave of legal issues.

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