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    The technology industry needs to promote itself as a diverse and creative workplace if it wants to attract more women to its ranks, according to speakers at the FITT (Females in Information Technology and Telecommunications) trends lunch in Sydney this week.

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    Telstra has rediscovered up to 150 lost systems as it continues to revamp its IT and reduce the number of platforms it uses.

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    Emerging technologies can be the stuff of science fiction, or they can have real business benefits. When is the right time to bring them into your organisation? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • Gravity, not technology, for Sydney nuclear safety

    Gravity, not technology, is being proposed as the ultimate safety for the proposed Replacement Research Reactor slated for South Sydney's Lucas Heights.

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    Forrester expects higher budgets and new investment funding for tech departments but what does it really mean?

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    What's in a name?

    Are ICT, IT&T and plain old IT interchangeable? Or is it time for a new name?

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    What's not in a name?

    The dullest observation you can possibly make about information technology is that it should be designed to serve the needs of the business, rather than the technology experts.

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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.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Take off the blinkers

    The introduction of new ICT technologies triggers a learning process that creates significant innovation across the Australian economy.

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    A quick scan of almost any ICT department, ICT conference or vendor environment confirms that women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed.

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  • New technology: bane or benefit?

    Emerging technologies can be the stuff of science fiction, or they can have real business benefits. When is the right time to bring them into your organisation? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • Technology plays key role in UNICEF relief efforts

    In a Face to Face interview with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber, UNICEF Chief Information Officer Andre Spatz explains how field operations "scale up," integrating themselves into the global framework through a satellite system equipped with a firewall, switches, wireless access and an IT back office that can be up and running in less than four hours.

  • Top tech jobs for 2006

    After years in the wilderness, the Australian IT industry is again booming as major industries invest heavily in their IT infrastructure. Find out which skills are most in demand and how much remuneration to expect.

  • CIOs must bridge gap between business and tech

    The CIO must act as the link between IT and the wider strategy of the business, and not get too bogged down in technology alone.

  • Hail to a new IT society

    A new industry body aimed at students and workers looks set to make waves in Australia.

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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?

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    IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.

  • IBM finds new way to make nanotubes

    Researchers at IBM have revealed a new process for fabricating carbon nanotubes that could be incorporated into processors, a breakthrough that could lead to more powerful computers in the coming decades.

  • 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.

  • Notebook overhaul on the horizon

    Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.

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