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  • Aussie tech workers' job jitters increase

    Despite the IT industry showing good signs of recovery following its post-Y2K malaise, more than a quarter of Australian IT workers feel less secure in their jobs than they did 12 months ago.

  • IIM warns of compliance concerns close to home

    The Institute for Information Management has spelt out its compliance concerns at its Annual General Meeting held this week in Sydney, following the recent release of the Sarbanes Oxley-Act powers.

  • OSIA says Ballmer is talking bolony

    Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, has had his warning of Linux not really being free given the intellectual-risks thrown back in his face by the director of Open Source Industry Australia, who claims that Microsoft is now running scared.

  • Seagate turns tide of PC performance

    Seagate has released a new hard drive disc, which it claims has the ability to improve the performance of PCs that need to run multimedia applications without draining hard drive resources or the speed of operations.

  • Compliance comforter offered by Symantec

    Information security vendor Symantec has announced several new features in its Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) policy compliance application that enables organisations to effectively manage business risks by identifying threats and measu...

  • Microsoft focuses on biometrics for security

    Bill Gates has warned that passwords used for identity authentication could be a thing of the past, because biometric and smart-card technology evolves into a much more secure form of identification.