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Dodgy syllabus nips IT interest in the bud

Students with a penchant for programming in Australian high schools are being left behind by a subpar curriculum, according to the co-creator of the University of Sydney's National Computer Science School Programming challenge.

June 30th, 2011 in Government by Luke Hopewell 1 Comment 5 Votes

OOXML just a Microsoft 'marketing tool'

The developer of XML and a former ISO committee chair have both claimed that Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML accredited as an international standard in order to forward the company's wider interests.

April 21st, 2008 in Challenge by Tom Espiner Comment Vote

ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'

The ISO has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) standard.

April 15th, 2008 in Challenge by David Meyer Comment Vote

Challenges coming to OOXML result?

Now that Office Open XML (OOXML) has been certified as an ISO standard, there is a possibility that the vote leading to that result will be challenged. It seems Microsoft is already counting on it.

April 3rd, 2008 in Challenge by Martin LaMonica Comment Vote

Machines to terminate human intellect

Machine intelligence will catch up with that of humans and begin to overtake it in the next two decades, a visionary scientist has predicted.

February 18th, 2008 in Ai by John Von Radowitz Comment Vote

Aussie team takes DARPA race smarts to business

An Australian team has used knowledge gained from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge to help corporate and government projects.

November 8th, 2007 in Darpa by Suzanne Tindal Comment Vote

Optus, iiNet crush Telstra in speed challenge

Customers of Optus and iiNet, along with users of TPG and Internode, have a much faster Internet connection than their Telstra-using counterparts, according to results generated by ZDNet Australia's Broadband Speedtest.

November 6th, 2007 in Telstra by Suzanne Tindal Comment Vote

Test your broadband: Oz now on 5.5Mbps average

Australia's broadband may be better than you think -- according to a survey of over 50,000 users in the country, the average connection speed is now around 5.5Mbps.

September 13th, 2007 in Zdnet by Jo Best Comment Vote

Baiting the Black Hats?

The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?

September 22nd, 2006 in Black Hat Hacker by Munir Kotadia Comment Vote

CIO 'owns' the un-hacked Mac Mini

The new and improved Mac hack competition, which was set up by an Apple systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin in response to a ZDNet Australia story shut down early because the university's CIO was concerned about "security and network access".

March 9th, 2006 in Rm-my-mac by Munir Kotadia Comment Vote

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