Central business districts of key cities in New South Wales will get free Wi-Fi broadband within the next three years, under a plan announced today by the state's premier Morris Iemma.
Kraft Foods has signed a seven-year, US$1.7 billion global IT services deal with EDS.
In a move that alleviates some privacy concerns, a federal judge granted part of a Justice Department request for Google search data but said users' search queries were off-limits.
The major search companies have expressed varying ideas on how Web searching will evolve over the next few years, with MSN claiming that there will be significant changes in the user interface of search engines and Google contending that changes in the underlying technology will be more important.
Google lashed out at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile request for a list of a week's worth of search terms must not be granted because it would disclose trade secrets and violate the privacy rights of its users.
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Two IT executives relate how their mentors not only provided a reliable guiding hand, but also thwarted potential career mistakes.
IT consulting firms continue to tread water in a challenging organisation environment, and many are reacting by taking a "back to basics" approach to their businesses. Take advice from two consultants who have done just that.
Hewlett-Packard and Compaq's merger plans raise questions about which firm's handheld range will survive in the long term, but both are likely to continue for the present.
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