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Labor pledges to fix Howard 'broadband trainwreck'
The federal government's investment in a high speed national broadband network is as important as the development of the rail network in the late nineteenth century, Labor says. Read more »
Porn-blocker hit as Razor Gang slash AU$30m off tech
The Rudd government's so-called Razor Gang has taken the blade to some of the Howard government's pre-election promises for the 2007-08 fiscal year, including AU$30 million sliced from the federal tech budget. Read more »
Google plays with Gears, ready to unveil Docs?
News from the blogosphere today has indicated that Google is preparing to launch one of its first offline-ready Web applications in the form of Google Docs as part of Google Gears. Read more »
Labor, Coalition looking at powerline broadband
With the election looming, there does appear to be one issue that both Liberal and Labor can agree on: broadband over powerline could one day be used to get Internet access to Australia's remotest regions. Read more »
Google's OpenSocial opens new online battle
Google have taken the online social networking battle to a new level with the announcement of a new set of APIs that can be used to create applications on any site that wishes to participate. Read more »
European skills snatch plan alarms US tech firms
The European Union's new proposal to fast-track the immigration process for "highly skilled" workers is making some U.S. technology heavyweights nervous. Read more »
Broadband paves way to greener Australia
Broadband can help Australians save money and cut their carbon footprint, according to new research. Read more »
Labor fires first tech shots in official election fight
On the first official day of the federal election campaign, Labor has placed IT at the centre of its agenda for growth, issuing a challenge to the Coalition on broadband and procurement. Read more »
Skills crisis, what skills crisis?: Coonan
Senior politicians have warned that Australia is heading for an ICT skills crisis with the country's students outpacing their teachers in their knowledge of technology. Read more »
Rivals tell Telstra to make plans public
Several rival telcos have reacted to the breakdown of Telstra's talks with the competition regulator over a new fibre broadband network by demanding Telstra make its proposal public. Read more »
Features (5)
Local game studios face skill shortage
The Australian game development industry is now worth $130 million, employs around 2000 people -- and there has never been a better time to break into it. Read more »
Five common errors in requirements analysis (and how to avoid them)
In the traditional waterfall model of software development, the first phase of requirements analysis is also the most important one. Read more »
New Indian government a threat to offshoring?
What do the results of the recent Indian election mean to companies looking to offshore IT services there? Author Paul Davies explains. Read more »
Standardise workflow data with Wf-XML
Many organisations strive to reduce costs by streamlining their business processes. One method that helps improve process management is workflow automation. Read more »
Open, closed source security about equal?
Proprietary programs should mathematically be as secure as those developed under the open-source model, a Cambridge University researcher argued in a paper presented in Toulouse, France. Read more »
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DataPortability has big names on board, but a long road ahead
-- There's been plenty of talk about data portability over the past few weeks, what with Facebook taking issue with a Plaxo script that imported user data from one social network to the other. But the news has mostly dealt with tiffing and squabbling -- until now. Read more »
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Share a keyboard and mouse with Synergy
Even in the era of virtualization, many IT pros (including myself) have a small army of computers sitting on, under, and around their desks. Read more »
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Android devs less than gruntled
Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community. Read more »
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As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »
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Club Builder: Captain Obvious vs the Crackpots
In the case of the bleeding obvious, IBM says open source needs good designers; a claim is made that China can activate your phone to snoop on you; and we take a look at the Defcon conference.
