Centrelink staff have again come under fire for 367 breaches of privacy regulations governing the Commonwealth public sector.
Lycos may accidentally have launched a denial-of-service attack against its own anti-spam campaign Web site, "Make Love Not Spam".
Companies are actioning plans to better monetise their dealings with you moving forward.
Sensis' newly launched premium directory service sensis-1234 has been causing headaches for Optus.
This is part two in a four-part series of articles that is roughly a response to "The Magic Cauldron," the seminal work on open source economics written by Eric Raymond. This article discusses points relating to the comparative merits of open-source and proprietary software. You can find part one, How the software economy is driven by proprietary work, here.
Your users don't need an encyclopedic knowledge of how their computers work or how your network is configured -- but they may need a little technical enlightenment here and there. This list includes some of the basics that will help them (and you) work more effectively.
Do women lack interest in IT, or is inadequate support and enduring stereotypes keeping them away?
Sometimes you just must have the latest technology, and swallow the associated risks of being the first to use it. We talk to Australian companies that couldn't wait.
Linux vendors Debian, Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrakesoft have attacked a recent Forrester report that compared Microsoft's security with that of Linux.
Although some level of diversity in hardware suppliers is typically unavoidable and beneficial, it does introduce costs that must be understood during the vendor selection process so organisations should strive to keep the number of active vendors low.
Commentary:Historically, Intel drops a technological grenade of sorts at the doorway as it exits its current processor area, to confuse and misdirect the competition. Bill O'Brien thinks this could be the case with Intel's latest Pentium 4 release.
New wireless networking gear lets users log on to their service provider from 19 kilometres away. But the service may mean bad news for 3G, and it is here today.
Norton's SystemWorks 2003 is the Swiss Army knife of utility packages. If you already have SystemWorks, don't bother with this extremely minor upgrade. But if you don't own SystemWorks, buy this version for its high-grade hard drive utilities and the PC protection it provides.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas, such as their PayWave … Watch it now
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