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Telecom New Zealand faced union protests in Auckland today in relation to its re-shuffle of engineering contractors.
Victoria's Auditor-General has chided the state government's IT administrators for failing to deliver a number of substantial projects on time and in the black, but some still see the state as "light years ahead of New South Wales".
As Microsoft, AOL, News Corp dance to the smell of Yahoo's blood, Google's competitive threat has remained constant and if anything, looks stronger and more stable an option than before.
Defence has been too disorganised to deliver current technology to staff. Defence CIO Greg Farr hopes to turn the department around with stronger leadership.
For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.
Silicon Valley-based wireless technology start-up Quantenna Communications is planning to open a 30 to 50-person research facility in Australia following an injection of venture capital by the Australian-US fund Southern Cross Venture Partners.
Like many, I expected Telstra's dismissal was inevitable, given that it had openly flouted the NBN's guidelines and attempted to bend the process to its own wishes. But who would have expected it so soon?
Rejecting Telstra's proposal, after all, is the only conclusion Conroy can reach: as someone whose entire philosophy is built around transparency and process, he simply cannot keep Telstra as part of the NBN bidding process anymore.
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A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.
The Colossus code-cracking computer has recently been kicked into action for the first time in more than 60 years.
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Google launched Google Gears at it's Developer Day in Sydney on Thursday. Google Gears is an open source platform that could allow Web applications -- such as Gmail and YouTube -- to be used offline. Google Australia's director of engineering Alan Noble spoke to ZDNet Australia about the development.
At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krstic, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.
The future is bright for companies that are able to secure the perimeter, wherever that perimeter may be, according to Bradley Anstis, director of product management at Marshal.
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Spam drives users crazy, makes life difficult for mail administrators, and drives up costs. We evaluate five packages that aim to ease the burden on your mail servers.
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