The Australian Communications and Media Authority's CIO search is over with a CrimTrac executive assuming the role in May.
Two strong earthquakes off the coast of Taiwan damaged undersea communications cables, disrupting phone and Internet service in Asia on Wednesday.
Telstra's new national Next G wireless network is one of the most exciting developments in the Australian telecommunications scene this year. But it's just a sideshow.
New rules on business continuity management for the finance sector came into effect this month, but one local expert says more than just finance companies will be affected.
Hurricane Katrina has spawned more than misery and destruction -- a new wave of scam e-mails and Web sites are exploiting the tragedy.
The equivalent of an electronic tidal wave -- originating from the Microsoft campus in Redmond -- hammered the ZDNet Australia servers earlier this week.
The "Anonymous" hacker group gave Australia's police forces a month's warning that it was going to attack the Federal Government. Why didn't the Australian Federal Police's electronic crimes unit do anything about it?
Two writers from ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com, Michael Kanellos and Declan McCullagh, debate Bill Gates' call for businesses to allocate resources that could alleviate problems in the developing world.
Simon Jennings talks about the success of the Oxfam water bucket and the group's unusual catalogue which sells everything from camels to desks.
Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?
In a Face to Face interview with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber, UNICEF Chief Information Officer Andre Spatz explains how field operations "scale up," integrating themselves into the global framework through a satellite system equipped with a firewall, switches, wireless access and an IT back office that can be up and running in less than four hours.
There seems to be a pre-Xmas lull at the moment, with very little happening on the new products front. The early announcements have come out, and the last-minute surprises aren't due for a few weeks. Check out this week's new product releases.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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