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  • Australia Post on $700m systems revamp

    Australia Post's outgoing managing director Graeme John has announced the national postal service's plan to invest $700 million over three years in new IT systems.

  • Customs security chief paints sober picture

    Hackers have started to target specific government personnel, as opposed to simply using broad scattergun approaches, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service warned this week.

  • Job cuts hit CSC Australia

    IT services giant CSC today confirmed it would make a number of its Australian staff redundant as a result of the global financial crisis.

  • Oakton appoints operations chief

    Australian IT services provider Oakton has promoted one of its senior staffers to the post of executive general manager of operations, a role which appears to mirror that of departed COO Steve Parker.

  • CD with 3,000 taxpayer details goes missing

    A compact disc containing taxation details of 3,122 Australian taxpayers has gone missing whilst en route to the Australian Taxation Office from its printers.

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  • The bonfire of online vanities: Web 2.0 critic speaks

    Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.

  • Gosling looks down Sun's open road

    James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop.

  • Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

    Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

  • McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

    Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.

  • Australia: CRM leaders go head to head

    Pivotal's Helen Robinson and salesforce.com's Doug Farber debate on where the local customer relationship management business is headed.

Reviews (9)

  • Fujitsu LifeBook E8420

    Fujitsu's foray into Centrino 2 laptops is solid, but the competition is offering more features at a lower price.

  • Wireless crackdown

    The spread of convenient wireless LANs has delighted hackers, who find many WLANs vulnerable. Managing and securing a wireless network is therefore vital, but rarely done well. ZDNet Australia compares the offerings from AirDefense and AirMagnet.

  • NEC e808N

    The second video-capable mobile phone to become available for Hutchison's 3G network '3' is the NEC e808N, which comes complete with a QWERTY keyboard. Read our Australian review.

  • NEC e606

    The bulky e606 3G capable phone has unique features that will make it a must have for some people. Read our Australian review.

  • New technology sees through objects

    Researchers in Europe have made advances with a new technology that could one day be used to detect explosives or biological weapons in parcels, locate cancers beneath the skin, reveal the state of wounds beneath dressings and see through fog.

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