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  • Merger prompts Symantec ANZ reshuffle

    Security vendor Symantec has restructured its local management as part of the now-complete acquisition of storage supplier Veritas Software.

  • Unisys calls in political heavyweight

    Former NSW premier John Fahey has joined Unisys Australia as one of the first appointments to its newly-created advisory board.

  • Australian customers meeting with Siebel over Oracle deal

    Australian customers were today digesting the implications of last night's widely-predicted AU$7.6 billion acquisition of customer relationship management vendor Siebel Systems by Oracle.

  • IBMer leaves to don Red Hat

    Red Hat has become the second major vendor today to announce a new holder of its top job in Australia.

  • Olympics officials gear up for icy IT challenge

    Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) officials heading to the Turin Winter Olympic Games this February are banking on a technology upgrade and the skills of a new IT manager to deliver communications capable of withstanding icy temperatures and mountainous terrain.

  • Tag costs holding back RFID: NCR

    Despite a renewed industry push behind radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, one vendor has warned high costs could prohibit large-scale rollouts for up to seven years.

  • Internet, mobile phones force anti-terror rethink: Howard

    The Prime Minister, John Howard, has conceded that anti-terrorism legislation in many countries is antiquated and ill-equipped to cope with terrorists' exploitation of new technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones to carry out their activities.

  • Judge: MP3 site, ISP breached copyright

    Major record labels in Australia have finally won a legal battle against a Queensland man and his Internet Service Provider for alleged music piracy.

  • Outage hits Telstra's BlackBerry network

    E-mail services to Telstra BlackBerry devices should be fully restored by tomorrow morning following the failure of international links to the technology's manufacturer Research In Motion in Canada on Wednesday morning, the carrier said.

  • E-passports ready, despite doubters: DFAT

    Just months before the launch of Australia's e-passport, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has tried to alleviate concerns the technology might not be up to the task.

  • Australian Internet industry warned over Swiftel

    The IIA has asked its members to "contribute" to the defence of member ISP Swiftel against litigation by the music industry.

  • Aust privacy comissioner tackles long-winded policies

    Australia's federal privacy commissioner, Malcolm Crompton, will combat "long-winded and confusing" privacy policies and statements.

  • Ticketek outsources IT systems in $6m deal

    Ticketek has outsourced its major business applications, citing growth and improved security as the reasons for its $6.1 million deal with Hostworks.

  • Smash repairers blast Web tendering

    About 300 protesters crowded outside the central Sydney head office of NRMA Insurance this morning to voice their anger over a new Internet-based tendering system for smash repair jobs in NSW

  • Google in sight as Ballmer vows .NET push

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET interoperability efforts with IBM and Sun have slowed, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google.

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