AAPT has decided to use Google Apps for its 1300 staff after deliberations it called more philosophical than technical.
A health informatics professor from Sydney University today said Australia's e-health systems should be strictly open source rather than using proprietary software.
ICANN, the nonprofit body that oversees internet addresses has approved the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet in a decision that could make the web dramatically more inclusive.
Second Commissioner of Taxation David Butler today said that the increased $879 million budget for the Australian Taxation Office's Change Program quoted in an audit report released yesterday was a worst-case scenario.
The NSW Government yesterday went to market with its plan to move its dozens of datacentres from over 30 agencies into two new efficient facilities by 2011, while Victoria said it would soon release a tender for whole-of-government needs.
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".
Some of the 500,000 visitors expected to walk through the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on the Sydney coastline this November can be excused for saying they are seeing things that aren't really there.
Amazon's Kindle comes to the Pacific region but not to New Zealand. Why?
The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into.
Shareholders got a rude awakening this week as Stephen Conroy made good on industry calls to break up Telstra. Some argue the government has been duplicitous and should be held to account, but those who sit tight may find the new Telstra offers a far better value proposition with better long-term opportunities.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) hunt for Australia's third largest internet service provider iiNet is set to resume on Monday, with all eyes on its managing director Michael Malone as he takes the stand.
This afternoon Communications Minister Stephen Conroy described his opposite, Senator Nick Minchin, as a Luddite as he took questions from reporters on the Opposition's attempt to block the government's wide-ranging telecommunications industry reform legislation, which includes provisions to force the break-up of Telstra.
Why won't Adobe make licensing its software easier for school IT directors?
Yesterday's report from the Australian Computer Society's Filtering and E-Security Task Force will be a handy weapon in Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's battle over internet censorship.
Microsoft's workhorse Outlook program gets an update in the 2010 suite, but is it enough to upgrade? We look at an early version.
Molly Wood takes you inside the new features of Word, including some cool cut-and-paste tricks.
The Microsoft Office 2010 technical preview shows a lot of promise, with feature enhancements and welcome additions across the entire suite of apps. Check out our overview of the next version of Microsoft's popular office suite.
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about devising the infrastructure to support the social network's hypergrowth.
The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to fears about security because the code has not been subject to enough "technical scrutiny".
HP's 21.5-inch monitor is fairly average for its class however, in the face of its limitations, the price doesn't add up.
SonicWall's feature-packed TZ 210 gateway security appliance is capable of protecting all kinds of networks at a very affordable price. It's easy to set-up and manage, and sets a new price point in the UTM market.
A fascinating development in the rather ragged history of Windows Home Server, HP's StorageWorks X500 Data Vault range has been pointed at the small to medium business.
Asus' high-end wireless router has plenty of throughput grunt, but we do wish the company would offer better support documentation.
iiNet customers who yearn for a simple networking life will do well out of BoB, although like most routers, it's not without its quirks.
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