Why waste time learning to program corporate solutions when you could be learning how to create the next award-winning game? ZDNet Australia follows a group of students as they live out their dreams of a career in games.
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) is hoping to develop a course specialising in Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing laws -- the controversial legislation that requires businesses to gather data on their customers.
Not enough migrant workers are being hired to work in public service IT, which is contributing to a government-wide ICT skills shortage, according to a report by the Australian Government Information Management Office.
The first fully accredited Open Source Security Testing Methodology (OSSTM) program -- a five-day hands-on course run by penetration testing specialists Pure Hacking -- will kick off this September.
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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.
If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.
Does the improved credit card security offered by chip and PIN-embedded credit cards mean a future of greater personal liability?
It's an inevitable consequence of sitting in a lot of enterprise presentations: sooner or later, the phrase "data leakage" is going to come up -- and when it does, you can't help but think of nappies.
Writing about yet another Australian organisation adopting e-learning, I have to ask the question: Have the benefits of e-learning made it a no-brainer for most organisations?
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Classroom-based training or online courses? Which is the most effective approach? ZDNet Australia put both training methods to the test.
Training budgets were looking like a thing of the past, but the industry is starting to bounce back. ZDNet Australia highlights issues to consider when training your staff members.
Providing a blended solution in order to provide e-learning to its managers was one of the criteria for St George Bank when it was planning a recent implementation.
Businesses want a broader range of skills from their IT staff including better communication, but does less often mean more?
ThinApp, previously known as Thinstall, offers a more streamlined and portable approach to new software roll-outs and development. Software developers and administrators of large numbers of workstations and or mobile workers are bound to benefit greatly from this software.
This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.
Despite some performance shortcomings of the Sanyo PLV-Z2000 projector, it's nonetheless a competent and feature-rich 1080p entry.
It is not only the staff at RMIT Labs who have been busy, virus writers worked hard too.
Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.
Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.
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