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  • Qld life savers turn to tech to stop drownings

    Queensland surf life savers recently swapped orange-and-yellow skull caps for propeller-head caps, participating in a high-tech bid to curb a surge last year in tourist drowning incidents on Gold Coast beaches.

  • Text message to the rescue

    A quick-thinking British tourist, adrift on a floundering ship in heavy seas off Indonesia was rescued after sending an SOS mobile phone text message to her boyfriend in England.

  • Hail to a new IT society

    A new industry body aimed at students and workers looks set to make waves in Australia.

  • Beep if you love me

    Forget Internet dating, your next conference could be the pick up venue of choice. Just watch out for all those greedy executives walking around.

  • The trouble with training

    Training budgets were looking like a thing of the past, but the industry is starting to bounce back. ZDNet Australia highlights issues to consider when training your staff members.

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  • Hail to a new IT society

    A new industry body aimed at students and workers looks set to make waves in Australia.

  • The trouble with training

    Training budgets were looking like a thing of the past, but the industry is starting to bounce back. ZDNet Australia highlights issues to consider when training your staff members.

  • The open source guide to the galaxy

    Could your business be paying for a proprietary program when an open source alternative exists? Take a look at our guide as we count down the most popular open source products.

  • Photos: Robots on parade

    A robot that plays the Violin? ZDNet Australia visited NICTA's Neville Roach Laboratory to see what all the fuss was about. We also discover what other amazing things today's robots can do.

  • CIOs: ROI software to the rescue

    With every potential information technology purchase now under intense scrutiny, a few software vendors are working to help CIOs look before they leap into big expenses.

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  • The best endpoint security suite is...

    Wondering which endpoint security suite keeps your clients the most protected? Enex TestLab racks them all up and puts them through their paces.

  • Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

    Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 provides adequate protection, but the program itself could use some work in telling the user what's going on.

  • DVD to the rescue?

    Commentary: This radical proposal could save the music business and give consumers what they want.

  • McAfee SpamKiller 2005

    Despite McAfee's acquisition of SpamAssassin and other technologies, SpamKiller 6.0 is a muddle of an antispam app.

  • Acronis True Image 8.0

    Acronis True Image 8.0 is a first-class imaging program that makes it easy to copy the contents of a hard drive.

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