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    The Western Australia Department for Community Development (WA DCD) has inked a three year contract with Unisys West to replace its existing client management system.

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    Congress managed to pull the plug last year on the Pentagon's data-mining plan known as Total Information Awareness, but it turns out that the effects were only fleeting.

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  • SMS gives new voice to NRMA members

    With so many companies focused on major IT-driven transformation, it's easy to forget that even small changes can have a big benefit. For road motoring group NRMA Motoring & Services, however, a highly focused middleware implementation project has provided a new communications channel for hearing-impaired customers.

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    No matter how good your security policies, you will still need to encrypt the data on your most private servers.

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    Finding hidden patterns and trends in masses of corporate data--in real time--takes up enormous processing power, but it can be very profitable.

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    StarOffice 8 is an impressive upgrade of Sun's bargain productivity suite, and a good buy for small and large businesses since it costs a fraction of the price of its main competitor, Microsoft Office 2003.

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  • The intruder at the gate

    Once simply alarm systems for the network, Intrusion Detection Systems have evolved to encompass a whole lot more. We review six sophisticated security devices.

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