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    Over the last 12 months, NSW police reports 600 people have been victimised by fraudsters on eBay. The most common of these cases are laptop computers, musical equipment, and digital cameras.

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    The NSW Department of Fair Trading is turning to analytics software to weed out fraudsters, scammers and dubious traders, the state government announced today.

  • Stop jail mobile jammer delays now: Minister

    NSW Justice Minister John Hatzistergos has demanded the federal government be quicker to embrace phone jamming in jails

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    Although ERG Group has threatened a lawsuit to reclaim its AU$250 million losses on the Tcard project, the Transport Minister's office believes the government is in a solid legal position.

  • Labor claims PM's Net Harbour deals breach Spam Act

    The federal Opposition has asked Australia's spam legislation enforcers to investigate what it claims is a breach of the Spam Act 2004 by the Prime Minister, coalition politicians and a company whose directors include the Prime Minister's son.

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    For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Hidden meanings in NSW's 'People First'

    While some states boast about procurement plans and how much they'll boost industry coffers, the NSW government appears to be heading in the opposite direction.

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    It seemed like a good idea at the time

    Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.

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    The New South Wales government has unveiled a panel of preferred open-source software suppliers but what does it really mean? Well, the answer depends on who's doing the asking.

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    Queensland interim state government CIO Peter Grant and CTO Bob Gurnett tell ZDNet Australia they're making progress on statewide ICT reforms announced last year.

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    Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

  • Vic government targets $109m e-procurement return

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  • Ericsson demos 3G mobile

    The first commercial rollout of third generation mobile technology may be 12 to 18 months away, but Ericsson has given Australia a taste of things to come for mobile phones: a live videoconference from a moving vehicle.

  • ACA considers jamming prisoners' mobile phones

    The federal government has formally asked the Australian Communications Authority to investigate the feasibility of allowing state governments to jam mobile phone signals in jails.

  • UPDATE: Qld government muscles carriers into better coverage

    The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".

  • Helping the public travel smarter

    Smart cards are anticipated to be the next generation in public transport ticketing systems. What are the obstacles faced in implementing them?

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