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    Industry observer Tony Healy takes IT minister Daryl Williams to task for making "unfounded claims" on Australia's position as an outsourcing leader.

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    The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Daryl Williams, claims Australia stands to benefit as well as suffer from the trend towards offshore outsourcing.

  • Our next IT leader

    Following the resignation of Daryl Williams as IT minister, the local industry is once again leaderless. We have a few suggestions.

  • UK open-sourcers beg to differ on OOXML result

    The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format.

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    Oracle and BEA Systems have traded salvos over the series of events that led to Oracle's bid for the company.

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  • Why Daryl Williams is wrong

    Industry observer Tony Healy takes IT minister Daryl Williams to task for making "unfounded claims" on Australia's position as an outsourcing leader.

  • Part II: Lundy vs. Williams

    This is the second part of our Q&A series between IT Minister Daryl Williams and his political foe, Kate Lundy. To read Part I, please click here.

  • Face off: Lundy vs. Williams

    Communications minister Daryl Williams and his political foe Kate Lundy debate on a wide range of issues, including three most pressing problems facing Australia's ICT industry.

  • Seeing double in software licensing

    New dual-core processors will make conventional software licensing models obsolete. What's next? Additional reading: Intel colonises with chipsets

  • Java beyond the server

    Java has a somewhat deserved reputation for being a server-side-only affair. But now, the language is becoming an increasingly popular choice for embedded development as well.

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    Apple Computer's plan to start charging for its Mac.com e-mail service has Mac owners scrambling for alternatives.

  • Security experts to plug hacker ‘gap in WAP’

    Computer security firm Cylink says it will close an accepted security loophole inherent in WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology -- as soon as September.

  • Pay to play: the barrier to online interactive gaming

    Interactive online computer gaming is widely touted at the next big thing for games consoles. ZDNet Australia peers into the future of online, interactive fun.

  • Palm busy buying software maker Be

    Palm announced on Thursday that it is acquiring the technology assets and intellectual property of software maker Be for US$11 million in stock, in a move aimed at strengthening its operating system to compete against Microsoft.

  • MSN Messenger upgrade blocks Trillian

    Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.

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