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  • Minchin resigns over carbon plan

    Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin has resigned from the shadow ministry to protest the opposition's stance on the carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS).

  • Vic report exposes Govt data breaches

    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.

  • Defence to post major ICT tenders

    The Department of Defence today invited the ICT industry to tender for major defence contracts, some of which will run through July, 2011.

  • NSW Ageing CIO retires

    James Hegarty, current CIO for the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care as well as former IT head at the state's Department of Corrections, is retiring after around 30 years in the public service.

  • Big CenITex pay packets continue

    Controversial CenITex executive Thana Velummylum has again entered into a contract with the Victorian shared services agency for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Blogs (86)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Forget the NBN, 100Mbps is already here

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Darren Greenwood

    NZ farmers: Bleating about broadband

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    2009 funding drought rolls on

    For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Can the Telco Reform Act be win-win?

    In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.

  • Read the blog post - Darren Greenwood

    Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?

    One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?

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  • Govt cuts ties with Future Fund

    Federal finance minister Lindsay Tanner says the government will beef up the independence of the Future Fund to remove doubt over its ability to make its own decisions, particularly on Telstra.

  • The war on file sharing hits Australia

    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?

  • How effective is endpoint security?

    Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.

  • CIO profile: Peter Nikoletatos, Curtin University

    It's been just over 12 months since Peter Nikoletatos moved west to take over the role of CIO at Perth's Curtin University of Technology. Since then, he's been working to manage the inevitable complexities of university IT while making sure he has enough time to keep his head in the clouds.

  • Court tweets sustained but paper still lurks

    The seemingly steeped-in-tradition Federal Court surprised a few observers last week when it coolly accepted Twitter's presence in its rooms. But its broader approach to technology is nothing short of ambiguous.

Videos (4)

  • Gates' tearful good-bye

    Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Washington. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts.

  • If Torvalds quit Linux would anyone notice?

    If Linus Torvalds stepped away from his position as coordinator of the Linux kernel, it is unlikely many people would notice, according to the man himself.

  • Microsoft battles to win over 'sceptical' designers

    Microsoft is far better known for its relationship with developers than with designers but as the software giant begins to step on Adobe's toes with its design tools, it has started hiring "user design evangelists" to help spread the word -- both to the design community as well as within its own campus. One of the first designers to be recruited into this new role was Shane Morris, who joined Microsoft at the start of 2007.

  • IT fund helps kids take giant steps

    Merle Singer of Dimension Data and Kerrie Nelson, principle of the Giant Steps school, talk about their involvement with the IT Fund for Kids.

Reviews (935)

  • Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 Beta 1

    If you spend more time fighting fires than adding business value through IT, it's time to look at this comprehensive management solution for medium businesses.

  • How effective is endpoint security?

    Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.

  • D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-615

    At a very affordable price, the D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-615 makes a great entry-level Wireless-N router and would satisfy most situations where a wireless network is needed.

  • Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

    SCVMM 2008 R2 is a very competent product, neatly bringing Microsoft's virtualisation management offering in line with the competition at the same time as offering management of disparate platforms in the one product. The integration with the rest of the Systems Center suite makes the overall management and monitoring experience better than its rivals.

  • Tandberg DPS1200 VTL

    While the lack of supported online expansion and de-dupe is a concern, if you need your tape backups to go faster, Tandberg's DPS1200 VTL may deliver what you need.

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