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UK beefs up huge snooping database

The UK Home Secretary has stressed the need for even greater snooping powers for government, even as the country is planning a massive interception database of all communications. Read more »

Silicon Valley trip for Qld minister

Queensland's information and communications technology minister Robert Schwarten has scheduled a trip to the US and Canada to meet with global tech giants and top-ranking public sector technology officials. Read more »

Qld education progresses PC project

Queensland's Department of Education, Training and the Arts has revealed it is most of the way through one of Australia's largest roll-outs of a standard desktop PC and server operating environments, including a standardised Apple Mac installation. Read more »

Yahoo announces social networking app for iPhone

Yahoo on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called oneConnect that can centralise communications and social-networking activity. Read more »

UK govt to monitor all telecoms

UK internet service providers will be invited to tender for a British government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications in the country. Read more »

25-year-old BSD bug found and fixed

A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at least 25 years old. Read more »

Virtualisation security threatened: XenSource

XenSource and VMware, two major figures in virtualisation security have warned of challenges facing IT managers in implementing secure virtual environments. Read more »

Schneier suspicious of Microsoft's security vision

Speaking at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week, a senior Microsoft executive sang the praises of the software giant's emerging vision for 'trust' based security, prompting one industry figurehead to label the strategy as "anti-competitive". Read more »

Oz users give new Microsoft server suite thumbs-up

Early adopters of Microsoft's new suite of enterprise products have given the vendor an initial thumbs-up. Read more »

Remote printer spam made easy

Security researcher Aaron Weaver claims visiting a random Web site could send unwanted print requests to your nearest office printer. Read more »

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What does a DBA do all day?

Data integrity is a DBA's number one responsibility, but do you know what else they do all day? Read more »

Sanity check: Five reasons to centralise your IT department

This article takes a look at the top five arguments for centralisation of your IT department. Read more »

Remaking my server environment: blade servers, virtualisation, terminal computing

My staff and I will be making some relatively significant changes to the computing environment at Westminster College. I thought I'd use this post to describe what we're doing and why and maybe give you some ideas about your own workings. Read more »

Case Study: Switching places from Lotus to .NET

For almost a decade, Sydney-based software developer Just OnePlace (J1P) had been a loyal devotee of the IBM/Lotus platform. But following the strategic review that commenced two years ago the company made a strategic switch to the rival Microsoft .NET camp. Read more »

What's new in SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008 will be released in 2nd quarter of 2008. SQL Server 2008 will also be part of a joint launch with Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on February 27, 2008. Read more »

Yahoo! Pipes brings mashups to the masses

The Yahoo! Pipes project facilitates mashup creation via an easy-to-use interface. Read more »

Easily integrate JavaScript with ASP.NET pages

While ASP.NET provides a robust development platform, developers should not overlook mature technologies like JavaScript. Tony Patton explains how to integrate JavaScript with ASP.NET controls in this article. Read more »

Using pluggable look-and-feel in Java Swing APIs

The Java Swing API provides a (PLAF) capability, which allows Swing GUI widgets to change appearance based on the programmer's customised look-and-feel setting. Learn how you can use it in your own applications. Read more »

Case Study: Powerlan and Application Lifecycle Management

For a company that makes software for a living, having suitable application lifecycle management tools is essential to ensuring a quality outcome for clients. Read more »

10 security problems unique to IT

Organisations face a host of security concerns driven by the power of technology and the vulnerabilities inherent in its use. IT pros have to be vigilant about all these issues, from system penetration threats to hardware portability to employee turnover. Read more »

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Will OLPC change Linux?

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- If OLPC is successful then the next generation of programmers will come from an environment that is a vast change from the fringe desktop that we live in today. Read more »

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