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    European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited mail than the US for the third month in a row, according to a recent study.

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    Demand for employees in the Australian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is the highest it has been for four years, according to the recruitment agency Ambition Technology's latest market trends report.

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    Many IT executives are on the fence about Web services. Find out what one expert has to say about making the decision to implement and the associated risk factors that you must factor in to any ROI projection for Web services projects.

  • Number plate cameras signal auto peep show

    CrimTrac, the federal government's criminal information and intelligence agency will be taking the initial steps towards developing a national automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system for to capture the vehicle details of suspects and citizens alike.

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    After posting its first decline in market share since launch in July, only to recover in August, Mozilla's Firefox browser saw its share of the browser market drop again in September, according to one monitoring firm.

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    Microsoft recruiting software pirates to fight Firefox?

    Microsoft is going to let everyone -- even people with an illegal pirate copy of Windows XP -- download IE7 because the software giant really cares about the safety and security of all Internet users. (But don't mention Firefox ...)

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Should security clearances be outsourced?

    Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    The 'secret': Banks are freaked out by security

    Last week's blog on why consumers might be confused by contradictory messages on computer security from banks drew a few objections from interested parties ones that I thought would be worth responding to this week.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Nobody protects Macs, not even Steve Jobs

    Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Aussie PCs valuable for all the wrong reasons

    When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?

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  • The next frontier for app server supersuites: Security

    With this week's rollout of Web Logic Enterprise Security, BEA is fueling the convergence and consolidation of application security and identity management. Is BEA fighting an uphill battle?

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    Many IT executives are on the fence about Web services. Find out what one expert has to say about making the decision to implement and the associated risk factors that you must factor in to any ROI projection for Web services projects.

  • Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

    Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

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    Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.

  • The ICT labour market: Where agendas collide

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Reviews (558)

  • Norton Internet Security 2008

    While Symantec's protection is solid, the overall user experience within Norton Internet Security 2008 could be much, much better. Not all the features work together and use fewer system resources.

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    Lavasoft Ad-Aware 2007 came in dead last in our CNET antispyware testing. Ad-Aware failed to detect half of the test spyware, and unlike nine out of the 10 other antispyware apps we reviewed in December 2007, left behind traces for all but one spyware.

  • System Mechanic 7 Professional

    System Mechanic 7 Professional goes beyond its original greatness, morphing a system utility suite into a kind of grand security suite. As such, it comes up short.

  • Intel touts security with second-gen vPro PCs

    Chipmaker will release its "LaGrande" security technology in the second half of the year with the launch of its second-generation vPro business desktop technology.

  • ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7

    ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7 offers a balance between best-of-breed security protection and ease of use, providing the home user with superior protection that's light on system resources.

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