After question marks had arisen over the combined efforts of the federal government, COAG and state and territory authorities to audit the state of IT in Australia's secondary schools as the first step in Labor's so-called "digital education revolution", the Department of Education has announced today that the audit is complete.
Overseas deployments have begun to drain both the manpower and resources of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and efforts to fight high-tech crime are suffering ahead of the Rudd government's promise to increase the force by 500 officers.
Business executives are spending too much time after work glued to their BlackBerries answering e-mails, according to a recent survey.
Advanced Micro Devices says its badly needed quad-core desktop processors are on the way, and they'll arrive bearing a new name.
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Pigs are flying in flocks as Telstra has a change of heart on separation. Given the vitriol of the past few years, Rudd and Conroy deserve credit for bypassing the copper loop and, in so doing, bringing Australia's most big-mouthed telco in line at last.
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Yesterday, Beatles songs weren't in the iTunes fray, now it looks as though a deal's been made.
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With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
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Almost by stealth, the Linux desktop is here -- and at last it knows how to make itself at home.
ScOrp thinks that if the techies were allowed to make the product choices, the world might be a better place. Until that time, however, the executives are keeping a distorted view about their seemingly shiny, but ultimately smudged, Windows.
Make sure you're behaving in a manner that will keep you in the good graces of your client company by brushing up on these best practices. When competition is fierce, one misstep could cost you your position.
If you are after a tiny laptop, and are certain you won't ever be playing any graphically intensive games on it, you'd be hard pressed to find a better machine than HP's 5310m.
The U80V is without question our favourite 14-inch laptop, and Asus deserves praise for what it has achieved here. If the company can overcome the final stumbling block of having a reliable multi-touch touchpad on PC, we'll be thoroughly impressed indeed.
The Toshiba NB200 is an excellent netbook we just wish someone would evolve the platform already, but with Microsoft and Intel holding the reigns it doesn't seem set to happen soon.
Samsung's attractive "cream" monitor has a lot of upside, once you get the annoying base unit snapped on.
Dopod's C730 has some great and highly enticing technology hiding under its slim hood. A pity then, that it's such a poor smartphone to actually use.
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