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• SMS gives new voice to NRMA members

  With so many companies focused on major IT-driven transformation, it's easy to forget that even small changes can have a big benefit. For road motoring group NRMA Motoring & Services, however, a highly focused middleware implementation project has provided a new communications channel for hearing-impaired customers.

• Biometrics: Still searching for a pulse

  A few years ago, the uptake of biometric technology was considered a sure thing. But fast forward to present day and ZDNet Australia can reveal that companies are reluctant to use biometrics due to their negative stigma.

• Are sharks circling HP?

  Competitors will try to use uncertainty to win customers from HP, analysts predict. It's not yet clear whether they will succeed.

• Consumers lead the way for enterprise players

  Tech giants' newfound respect for consumer power is their roundabout way of winning enterprise customers, says CNET News.com's Mike Ricciuti.

• What's next for wireless?

  The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?

• How to attack spammers in your sleep

  Plans are afoot to attack spammers by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind.

• Do business people get IT?

  Everyone always says IT workers need to better understand business - but, asks Martin Brampton, could the real problem be business people who don't understand IT?

• The office of the future?

  Broadband and biometrics help NEC reinvent the workaday world. The average length of meetings has dropped 20 percent and conference room time is down 70 percent.

• Finding the perfect teleworking tools

  Technology is allowing workers to stay in contact no matter where they are. How do you choose the right combination of hardware, software, data transport, and voice transport, then secure the whole lot and make sure your organisation is set up to take advantage?

• A billion PC users on the way

  By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work.

• How to measure e-mail service levels

  To measure the service level of your e-mail application, metrics like uptime and header troubles do not always tell the whole story. So what other metrics should you use?

• Big Blue's Mr. Web services

  IBM's Bob Sutor tells why service-oriented architecture is crucial to Web services development.

• Letting Jini out of the bottle -- again

  Microsoft and Intel see Web services popping up everywhere, but their vision is strangely reminiscent of archrival Sun Microsystems' with an earlier technology called Jini.

• Security: No longer IT's ugly stepsister

  Industry watcher Jon Oltsik explains why networking and security are inexorably moving closer together. Additional reading: Secure your perimeter

• Who's riding your wireless network?

  Wi-Fi security tools and sound fundamental practices can help safeguard your wireless transmissions from a growing band of hi-tech thieves known as war drivers. Additional reading: Wireless computing 101

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