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  • Passport measures must not compromise privacy

    Increasing vigilance at passport controls and the impending requirement that Australian passports be machine-readable has highlighted the need for Australia to rethink the crucial issues surrounding privacy. According to the Australian IT ...

  • Small victory for Oracle in antitrust appeal case

    Business application software maker Oracle has won a minor battle in its fight to overturn the U.S. Department of Justice's (DoJ) ruling that its proposed takeover of rival software maker PeopleSoft would lead to an anti-competitivre market...

  • Open source opponents "are Luddites" - Sun

    Sun Microsystems'chief technical evangalist has labelled opponents of the open source movement as Luddites, and described the trend to open source methodology is an inevitable consequence of societal changes wrought by the Internet.

  • IIA to issue Draft Spam Code for ISPs

    The Internet Industry Association is to fast track the release of a comprehensive industry code for ISPs to provide a common platform of best practice in tackling spam.

  • Ballmer's Brussels dash in vain for Microsoft

    A last ditch attempt by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to negotiate a settlement with the European Union in order to avoid antitrust action has ended in disappointment for the software giant after talks between the two parties failed to reach...

  • Aussie storage vendor in Fibre Channel first

    Australian owned data storage vendor SLI-Consulting Pty Limited has announced that Emulex, Seagate and Xyratex are to hold the storage industry’s first fully functional 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel demonstration at CEBIT 2004, Europe's largest IT ...

  • Aussie businesses prospering on Net

    Australian companies that do business online have seen their Internet-related income rise sharply, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

  • Start-up looks to gain from SCO's Linux pursuit

    It had to happen – the only surprise is that no-one thought of it sooner. A start-up has been launched to help Linux users minimise the risk of being sued by The SCO Group, or anyone else for that matter.