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  • Gamma rays help CSIRO track down drugs, bombs

    Drug smugglers and terrorists beware: CSIRO has struck an agreement to commercialise scanning technology that uses radiation to x-ray freight in the hunt for narcotics and explosives.

  • Eclipse jumps from development to runtime

    The Eclipse Foundation has announced the creation of a project called Equinox, an expansion for the open source group beyond development tools and into runtime software.

  • Google lunar challenge gets under way

    A privately funded race to land a rover on the moon could cost each team well more than the US$20 million grand prize they're vying for, but all of the contestants view Google's Lunar X Prize as a new engine for business in space.

  • IBM plays Lotus Symphony to upend Office

    IBM this week quietly updated its Lotus Symphony desktop applications with a feature that hints at its broader strategy to use the Web and standards to up-end Microsoft's massive Office business.

  • Light-based quantum circuit does basic maths

    Researchers from the University of Queensland have taken a significant step in the quest to build a quantum computer, creating a light-based quantum circuit capable of basic calculations and moving quantum computing closer to a becoming a reality.

  • Government targets itself with phishing attack

    Governments have had to target themselves with phishing attacks in order to highlight weak points in their security and protect national secrets from espionage, according to a report published this week by Sans.

  • Aussies advance on silicon-based quantum computer

    Australian researchers have taken another step towards quantum computers -- computers which use sub-atomic particles to minimise transistors' size and maximise computing power.

  • Green IT is number one priority: Gartner

    The intense power requirements needed to run and cool datacentres now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from ICT, according to analyst firm Gartner.

  • Boy meets girl, her dad sues for patent infringement

    America's love affair with patent litigation has moved to another level, with a well-known patent expert arguing movies and movie scripts should be patentable.

  • Telstra versus ACCC, G9 consortium: Timeline

    The heated debate over who will build a countrywide fibre-to-the-node broadband network has been raging for some 18 months, with Telstra battling the ACCC, the government and the rival Optus-led G9 consortium. There are few signs the battle will end soon, but here is what has happened so far.

  • Fibre in their hands: Crucial panel unveiled

    With the details of who will build Australia's bush broadband network freshly released, the government has also taken the next step towards choosing whether Telstra or the rival G9 consortium will build the long-awaited 50Mbps urban fibre network.

  • Trujillo welcomes gov't end to fibre jam

    Telstra head Sol Trujillo has told staff he welcomes the government's decision to appoint a panel charged with breaking the fibre-to-the-node deadlock -- but it has no plans to negotiate over a rollout.

  • IBM delivers an open desktop

    IBM has developed an open desktop product that supports a range of applications, such as e-mail and instant messaging, without the need to run Microsoft Windows.

  • Agencies keen on document management

    Government departments are speedily adopting electronic content and document management systems in Australia, with the latest two to follow the trend being the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Future Fund Management Agency.

  • Tax CIO acts on security criticism

    Australian Taxation Office (ATO) chief information officer Bill Gibson has moved to keep a closer eye on the organisation's security governancefollowing a number of criticisms in an audit report.

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