Confidential personal information gathered by Victorian government agencies "can be, and has been, easily compromised", according to a report published today by the state's Auditor General.
Capgemini's Australian operations are tracking to ramp up sales by 65 per cent this half on the last one, which has led to the company increasing its Australian-based headcount by 150 since the half year began.
Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has defended the $450,000 National Broadband Network Company annual pay package for Premier Anna Bligh's outgoing chief of staff, saying he is a very talented man.
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) announced today that it had selected a CIO to replace Peter Dalton who left that position last year.
Since Tuesday, Gartner has been holding its annual ITXPO, or Symposium, at Sydney's Darling Harbour.
Have you ever heard a weird kind of hissing, crackling or popping noise when calling someone on an IP telephony line? How rare is the phenomenon these days?
Telstra and TransACT will shortly begin offering 100Mbps broadband to many customers. By moving early, the companies have not only raised the bar for Australia's broadband services, but thrown down a challenge to a government that now faces increased pressure to deliver the NBN as promised.
As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
Do you ever get the urge to be naughty, especially if you are never found out? Do you ever fancy committing a crime and not have to worry about having your name splashed all over the papers?
Considering how expensive and drawn-out tender processes can be to solve problems that might be very immediate, it's little wonder that the Victorian Police IT department tried to work the tender exemptions system.
At the Sydney Media140 conference several weeks ago, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull admitted he doesn't personally post all the tweets from his Twitter account &mdash sometimes his staff do it for him. But is this the right thing to do?
Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?
If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
What happens when you change the agenda of the ATO's Change Program, or program in some changes to the Agenda? Or which way actually is it? Not to mention whether there will be any change left in the budget after the program's agenda has changed.
Few people are better qualified than Tom Kyte to instruct developers on how to form questions asking for help.
What is this HTPC people are talking about? It's pretty straightforward - it's a PC acting as a playback device for your home theatre, hence Home Theatre PC.
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, explains how Microsoft plans to apply Web 2.0 technology, such as self-service and groups of people contributing to applications, to the enterprise. In an interview with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Elops also details Microsoft's plans to release ad-supported programs.
If it's true that Windows 7 and KDE4 are so alike, can people tell one from another? We show people KDE4 and tell them it is Windows 7. How many would end up "upgrading" from Vista?
A new program, "Drive-Assist," has been created to disable a cell phone if it detects driving motion, preventing people from chatting on the phone while driving. CBS's Daniel Sieberg has more.
Behind its expansive display, Apple has packed one of the fastest all-in-ones available, and added a few useful extras to sweeten the deal.
The Pro805 frustrates as much as it innovates with a touchscreen interface and an interesting, iPhone-style app store.
The T50 is a reasonably priced single-function printer that produces good photos and can handle CDs too, but the ongoing consumable costs and text quality let this inkjet down.
Microsoft Security Essentials is recommended for those who want something to set and ignore, but users who want more robust configuration choices or don't want to contribute to the cloud should look elsewhere.
iTunes 9 is a natural, yet relatively minor, evolution of Apple's popular media management software and is a required download for new iPod owners.
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