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• Fostering a better Kaz future with Fujitsu

  For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.

• Inside the San Fran network lockout

  A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears.

• Border security portal 'may bust wrong passengers'

  The Federal government has announced that its border security portal is now online, triggering the alarm of privacy advocates who believe that poor data quality could lead to cases of mistaken identity.

• Yahoo search flags dangerous Web sites

  Yahoo is using McAfee's SiteAdvisor to warn users of harmful Web sites appearing in its search results but a security researcher warns the technology has a repuation for giving false positives.

• Govt CIOs still misunderstand open source: Novell

  The problem with open source software is a lack of understanding, not a lack of support, according to a Novell executive who hit back at the CIOs from some of Australia's top government agencies.

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• Fostering a better Kaz future with Fujitsu

  For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.

• Understanding Trujillo

  Sol Trujillo has, not for the first time and perhaps not for the last, ignited a furore, this time over his charge that Australians are racist. While his broader comments mischaracterise a country generally welcoming to people of different cultural backgrounds, there is also some validity to them when it comes to the way he was treated during his stint here.

• Putting the filtering cart before the horse

  There is no suggestion even by government that this filter would aid law enforcement, and nobody, including the ISPs themselves, has suggested there is any possibility that the pilot will tell a different story.

• E-mail best practices to share with your users

  E-mail is practically universal, but that doesn't mean that everyone knows how to use it correctly. These usage guidelines, which encompass things like virus, spam, and phishing protection, rules of etiquette, and attachment handling, will help safeguard your organisation and teach your users how to handle their e-mail responsibly.

• Reinventing Sun Microsystems

  Over a long and distinguished career, Andy Bechtolsheim has earned a reputation as a top-notch engineer. Now that reputation will be put to the test. The task: Invent Sun Microsystems' next "hot box".

Reviews (6)

• Are DVD burners the tool of the pirate devil?

  Commentary: Amidst a rush of DVD burners, each one more surprising than the last, ZDNet Australia's reviews editor wonders why they're so popular all of a sudden.

• Aust customers should not fear wireless security: Microsoft

  Microsoft wants customers to "overcome their fear" regarding security and proceed with wireless implementations.

• What's in a name? Not Palladium

  Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing base."

• Bluetooth to break through gum line

  Demand for Bluetooth chips and devices is starting to pick up as the technology finally matures.

• Norton AntiVirus' Rescue Disk misunderstands line commands

  In emergencies, one should be able to use antivirus definitions from the Rescue Disk itself. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. ZDNet offers a workaround.

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