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  • Surveys contradict on Aust IT infrastructure

    An American survey has ranked Australia's IT infrastructure as amongst the best in the world, in stark contrast to a recent OECD study that labelled Australian broadband, a key component of IT infrastructure, as one of the slowest and most expensive systems in the world.

  • IT salaries stable: Survey

    Remuneration packages for technology professionals have remained steady over the last 12 months despite a shortfall in certain specialised IT areas, a new study has shown.

  • Staff threaten network security from home

    Companies are being exposed to risks by home workers' bad behaviour online, such as hijacking the neighbour's Wi-Fi and opening unsafe e-mails.

  • Aust IT&T companies poised for hiring surge: survey

    Information technology and telecommunications employers in Australia are leading a last-quarter 2003 charge to beef up staffing levels, according to a new survey from recruitment consultants TMP/Hudson.

  • Survey says e-commerce servers still vulnerable

    A new server survey from Netcraft finds that administrators are taking their time patching e-commerce servers, potentially leaving them open to newly discovered attacks.

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    Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.

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    It's been a fascinating few weeks for female tech enthusiasts -- plasma love and nearly nude calendars are but two of the highlights.

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  • Survey: CIOs not sold on Cisco storage

    Networking giant Cisco Systems' new ventures in the storage market have piqued the interest of IT buyers, but the company may have to "earn its stripes," according to a new survey.

  • Survey says e-commerce servers still vulnerable

    A new server survey from Netcraft finds that administrators are taking their time patching e-commerce servers, potentially leaving them open to newly discovered attacks.

  • Security's pathetic while management's apathetic: Ernst & Young

    A "failure to invest [in] and failure to enforce" information technology safety measures will lead to an increase in organisational security breaches around the world, according to advisory and research body Ernst & Young.

  • Survey: Tech execs retrenching

    IT, telecommunications and media companies are bracing for further industry fallout and doing intense soul-searching more than two years into the tech bust, according to a study.

  • Survey: Employees ready to walk

    A raft of dissatisfied employees may mean an increase in job-hopping next year, according to a study released from recruiting Web site CareerBuilder.com.

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    Why do it vendors insist on creating catchy phrases to sum up their products? Is it to further confuse us, or are they really trying to help?

  • Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective

    As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.

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