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Security concerns have kept the Australian Tax Office (ATO) from adopting open source software, according to the agency's CIO Bill Gibson.
Boeing is piloting RFID tags and wi-fi technology to track and locate aircraft parts across its vast manufacturing factories.
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Rick Rashid envisions a future in which disk drive capacity of a terabyte is routine and user interfaces possess active intelligence.
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.
Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.
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While the desktop is still legal, Rich Brown unboxes the first Mac clone in years: the Psystar Open Computer.
Considered one of the most startling achievements of the 19th century, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 has come to life 150 years later. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, to see the machine in action.
Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
Mike Nuttal believes that simplicity is key to a successful product and that integrated devices such as combination mobile phone-camera-MP3 players are a step in the wrong direction.
Rick Rashid envisions a future in which disk drive capacity of a terabyte is routine and user interfaces possess active intelligence.
For Yossi Vardi, the evolution of wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi points to a future where messaging programs are increasingly powerful and pervasive.
In the future, Deborah Estrin says "nanometer-sized sensors will track the path of pollutants, and "smart buildings" will adjust their bearings to avoid earthquakes. Believe it, or not?
Howard Schmidt is convinced that post-Sept. 11, cybersecurity will transform the information technology world--for better or for worse. Do you agree?
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