The Commonwealth Auditor-General has responded to accusations by Opposition communications spokesperson Bruce Billson that the tender process for the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network has so far been unfair and anti-competitive.
Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open source software, according to the president and chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst. Other commentators prefer to credit national pride in non-US countries.
GNOME will receive long-term support in the next version of Ubuntu, but KDE will not.
Music players and laptops took pride of place this year, and the smaller the better -- check out our top 10 most read reviews for this year.
Over 700 players from 74 different countries are in Seattle for the finals of the World Cyber Games, one of the largest video game tournaments in the world.
update: Aussie Home Loans has lost its second chief information officer in nine months, but Christopher Hatzidis says he's left the mortgage specialist on good terms.
Christopher Hatzidis has jumped ship from mortgage insurer Genworth to take up the chief information officer reins at mortgage specialist Aussie Home Loans.
When UK-based online trading site Betfair was granted a licence to operate in Australia this January, it built a new data centre and flew the entire set-up from the UK to Tasmania on two chartered aeroplanes. In the first three weeks of going live, the company has achieved 100 percent uptime.
Although more Australian firms are shifting simple business processes to cheaper overseas destinations such as India, firms are being cautious -- and justifiably so, according to analysts.
The latest delay for Windows Vista highlights a mounting challenge for Microsoft -- finding a way to update its most important product on any kind of reasonable schedule.
The explosively popular BlackBerry has recently had a new incarnation: the BlackBerry Bold. Will it be an iPhone killer? Check out our photo gallery and decide for yourself.
The CIO of San Francisco International Airport talks to ZDNet about protecting the airport's network and providing new services such as passenger WiFi.
Programmers make big bucks, however there are many other reasons why people might want to become a developer. Here are a few things to consider when deciding to become a software developer.
Any manufacturer knows that a product recall can be an absolute nightmare of paperwork and logistics. At NSW agricultural cooperative Batlow Apples, however, an increasingly capable implementation of Microsoft's Navision ERP has provided the confidence that such a recall could be managed relatively easily.
MySQL chief Marten Mickos discusses software patents, Oracle, making money with open source and why his company is the Ikea of the database world.
Find out which company bagged the grand prize. Meanwhile, Techex and Westnet tied for the first runner-up position while storage vendor EMC Australia bagged the third runner-up spot.
Have we been lulled into a false sense of security by some anti-virus firms?
The Australian Computer Society has announced the findings of its latest ICT employment survey but its president's confusing and contradictory statements about the job market warrants closer scrutiny, writes Fran Foo.
The two important forces in Java tools need to find a way to co-operate.
The CTO of one of Britain's largest banks talks about how he made it to the top, and how Barclays is facing the challenges of technical innovation and corporate governance legislation.
Designed to be compact, the Evolution is suitable for a short inner-city commute or travel to meetings only.
Ignoring the low-resolution, standard aspect display, the U5F is a fast ultra-portable with great battery life.
Even in big cities it can be a heck of a lot easier to find a Big Mac than it can be to find a wireless hotspot.
New enhancements make Norton GoBack a must-have utility, even if you're already using Windows XP's System Restore.
This is a beautifully simple looking phone cleverly disguising a rich feature set.
The software giant's latest version of its flagship encyclopaedia seamlessly combines a wealth of knowledge with impressive multimedia, including Discovery Channel documentaries.
Don't waste your money on a bad monitor. We tell you which specs to pay attention to and which to ignore when shopping for a new display.
Commentary: Sony's Nobutoshi Kihara helped invent the transistor radio, the VCR, and the digital camera. Asked what will be big next, he replied, "Memory." What does that mean?
Why overclock a processor? We examine why you'd want to overclock a CPU and how to do it for the Intel Celeron and P4 processors.
Sure, it keeps turning out shiny new iBooks. But the big news from Apple lately has been apps like Keynote and iLife. Is Apple turning into a software company?
According to one security vendor, Mac users are at a crossroad this year: will or won't they prove to be as gullible as their PC cousins when it comes to security?
There are times when the tone of Australia's broadband discussions makes me want to laugh, and others when it just makes me want to cry. The past week has been one of the latter, after two very different broadband-related stories made their way across my desk.
A recent thread of conversation across a couple of 2.0 blogs has been the subject of whether Web 2.0 is suited not only for implementation inside a corporate firewall, but by companies with a view to improving their relations with their customers.
Mere days after resolving that although I would ideally like a smaller screen size, a 15.4" MacBook Pro was The Laptop For Me, Apple releases the 13" MacBook.
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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Lies, damned lies and telco stupidity
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