The New South Wales Police chief information officer says open-source systems deployed by the state's police force are just as reliable as proprietary systems.
The NSW Police Force has invested in a biometric tracking system that is capable of combining information from numerous video cameras to monitor people, vehicles and even packages or briefcases.
The mainframe environment which has been running the NSW Police force's key core applications since the early 1990s is about to meet its maker.
A Sydney man has been arrested for hacking into a database of Australia’s second largest telecommunications carrier, Optus.
Approval of the NSW Police's proposed AU$400 million COPS2 project is being held back by state government scepticism towards IT projects following the Sydney Water billing system fiasco.
I was interested to read that Telstra had the good sense to finally hand over its network designs to the Federal government last week.
Australian CIOs and IT managers are being put on alert after a survey found that computer crime here has been higher than in the US.
Government fleet management body StateFleet relies on business intelligence tools to increase its forecasting accuracy in an effort to save millions of dollars annually.
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