In this Australian exclusive, ZDNet asked the country's major political parties to outline their IT strategies in the lead-up to the 2001 Federal Election, answering the questions of readers on a myriad of technology-related issues.
While John Howard may have been left camera shy after the first and only televised debate, this time it's the Labor Party's turn, declining to take part in a public forum on IT policies, despite initially agreeing enthusiastically to participate in ZDNet Australia's online IT debate.
In the midst of election campaigns, Labour and the Coalition have little to say on what they will do to stem the flow of job losses from the telecoms arena, which have amounted to about 14,000 in the last eighteen months, according to union estimates.
Results of benchmark tests are in on the new Athlon XP processor, and the winner of the performance crown is unclear.
Last month's DoS attacks are a distant memory to the average Web user, but not to the Internet security community. Now experts are debating the merits of each as they try to plan and build an Internet infrastructure that will be less susceptible to such rabid attacks.
Because of bets NTT's Kei-ichi Enoki laid down years ago, the Japanese carrier is leading the way in mobile phone evolution.
CRM might be a staid topic but unlike the Latham-Howard "great debate", at least the chief executives of two leading software companies -- Intentia and PeopleSoft -- had some pertinent views to exchange.
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