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News (7)

• Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans

  We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level Google Ocean.

• Telstra confirms ACCC copper ruling

  Telstra today advised the market of a preliminary ruling by the competition watchdog that a single third party broadband provider can pay less for access to its equipment than the industrywide price listed by the telco in its earnings forecasts.

• Weather bureau updates Web rain radar

  The Bureau of Meteorology has upgraded its Web-based rain radar service, adding enhanced maps and finer grades of rain to a service that Hitwise already ranks as the most popular and fastest-growing educational and government Web site in Australia.

• Web-based collaboration: Creating the virtual environment

  Increasingly sophisticated Web-based collaborative environments are the result of the convergence of a number of different fields. They promise to revolutionise work, research and play.

• Recommendations for secure OSs

  The results of a recent poll showed that many of our members recommend Microsoft Windows to security-conscious clients, but a flurry of e-mails suggests that others have very different opinions. Find out what they recommend and why.

Features and Case Studies (6)

• Minchin is gaining on Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy needs to stop handing his opposite Nick Minchin free kicks and put some transparency back into the National Broadband Network process before he finds himself losing favour with Chairman Rudd.

• The rights and wrongs of WiMax

  When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?

• Thin clients a permanent fixture at Maroochy Shire

  New technology gains legitimacy when it solves real business problems, but becomes indispensable when it offers to take that business in completely new directions. Such has been the case at Maroochy Shire Council, where a quite conventional thin-client rollout is now facilitating new ways of working for employees in the office and on the road.

• Web-based collaboration: Creating the virtual environment

  Increasingly sophisticated Web-based collaborative environments are the result of the convergence of a number of different fields. They promise to revolutionise work, research and play.

• Recommendations for secure OSs

  The results of a recent poll showed that many of our members recommend Microsoft Windows to security-conscious clients, but a flurry of e-mails suggests that others have very different opinions. Find out what they recommend and why.

Reviews (2)

• Identify yourself: 2 fingerprint scanners tested

  Thanks to the movies, we're quite comfortable with biometric scanning, but are fingerprint scanners ready for the office? And are they as easy to defeat as we've seen at the cinema?

• Mac OSX won't change the world...but it's still a big deal

  The new Mac operating system is gorgeous (and it works pretty well, too). Mac-heads will want it; Windows users will yawn.

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