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  • PHP, Perl and Python pass Homeland Security test

    Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.

  • Government CIOs to mentor smaller agencies

    Australian government CIO Ann Steward and Centrelink CIO John Wadeson are set to mentor their peers at smaller agencies in an extension of a program to help combat the shortage of soft skills in IT.

  • Europe hunts for female techies

    The tech and telecoms industry needs to get more women on board or risk confronting a shortfall of 300,000 IT workers in 2010, according to the European Commission.

  • HP investigator to plead guilty, testify

    The data broker charged with federal crimes for his role in the Hewlett-Packard news-leak probe will testify against other defendants, according to sources close to the case.

  • Skype to address identification concerns

    Skype plans to address the concerns of some IT managers by improving its identity authentication process.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The Swedes are doing it, so why can't we?

    I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.

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  • Mike Quigley: The background check

    Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.

  • Future direction trapped in halt state

    Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.

  • Debating the morality behind software development

    IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.

  • A seasoned manager's advice for preparing yourself for a leadership role

    More important than having the right degrees and certifications is acquiring the softer skills that enable you to move on to leadership positions. Here are the top 10 ways to get you prepared to climb the corporate ladder.

  • How the Woz shaped Apple

    Though Apple's success has made Steve Jobs' name well-known in many a household, few know much about co-founder Steve Wozniak. But, says Seb Janacek, "the Woz" played at least as crucial a role in shaping the PC industry as Jobs.

Reviews (15)

  • Fujitsu LifeBook S6311

    The ideal notebook for road warriors who crave battery run time without skimping on specs, the S6311's weight and size also makes it a good student or home notebook, albeit an expensive one given the lack of grunt for anything other than work and the odd DVD.

  • IE7 gets tabs but does it matter?

    The new version of Internet Explorer will include tabbed browsing but will this be enough to entice Firefox users to convert?

  • Drowning in a sea full of Phish

    Phishing scams work on an embarrasingly low percentage of users -- but apparently that's enough to keep them profitable.

  • My PC wish list for 2003

    Isn't it time we took another Macintoshesque great leap forward in terms of personal computing, is 2003 going to be a year of computational revolution?

  • Intel slices and dices chip prices

    Intel has halved the list prices of some of its Pentium 4 desktop chips in a sweeping price cut.

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