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Tuesday May 13, 2008 03:35pm AEST GMT+10:00

 

Web start-up unveils semantic Wikipedia search tool

Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as Google. » Read More

Enterprises click with social networking

The market for enterprise social networking products, such as KickApps, Passenger and hi5, could reach US$2 billion by 2012, according to recent research..

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Microsoft appeals latest EC fine

Microsoft is to appeal against the European Commission's €899 million fine for failing to honour a four year-old antitrust agreement..

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Interviews
Researcher discusses iPod supercomputer

Researcher discusses iPod supercomputer

Microprocessors from portable electronics like iPods could yield low-cost, low-power supercomputers for specialised scientific applications, according to computer scientist John Shalf.

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Interviews
Spintronics professor wins grant, discusses technology

Spintronics professor wins grant, discusses technology

The U.S. Department of Defense has invested half a million dollars in a grant that aims to further the emerging field of quantum spin-based electronics.

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Opinion
Opinion: CDMA closure causes chaos

Opinion: CDMA closure causes chaos

Just one day after the closure of Telstra’s CDMA mobile phone network, complaints are flooding into hotlines across the country with rural and regional callers blaming the shutdown of the service for everything from cot deaths to crop failures.

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Latest Features
Protecting human values from Human-Computer Interaction

Protecting human values from Human-Computer Interaction

These days, it is nigh on impossible to stop the infiltration of technology into our lives. Business communications are conducted via phone or e-mail. Information is searched for and obtained online. Even our kitchens are getting smarter, with Internet-enabled fridges opening doors to food for both the body and mind.

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Opinion
Opinion: The National Broadband Network

Opinion: The National Broadband Network's untenable tender

A collective sigh could be heard from the telco industry when the Government finally released a request for proposal (RFP) for its $4.7 billion national broadband network (NBN) on April 11. But far from being a sigh of relief, this was instead the disappointed murmur from an industry once again let down by a Government kowtowing to the dominant telco players.

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Opinion
Guest Column: Best practices for deploying Vista SP1

Guest Column: Best practices for deploying Vista SP1

Many companies have been waiting for Microsoft to release the first service pack of its latest operating system, Vista, before considering an upgrade to their current desktop operating environment. Vista Service Pack 1 addresses many of the concerns with regards to performance and stability, and application compatibility.

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Events

Event Name Location Date
Kaseya ‘Road Map to Success’ seminars All major cities in Australia 13/05/2008
Make Business Sense out Of Green IT Sydney Convention Centre 14/05/2008
Sybase ASE Cluster Edition – Seminar Novotel on Collins, 270 Collins Street, Melbourne 14/05/2008
Web Direction User Experience Melbourne Town Hall 16/05/2008
IT Automation and Managed Services - N-able Seminar Series Burswood Entertainment Complex, Perth 16/05/2008
Web Direction Government Old Parliament House Canberra 19/05/2008
CeBIT Australia 2008 Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour 20/05/2008
REMIX08 Australia Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), Melbourne Town Hall 20/05/2008
Software Asset Management Seminar Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide 20/05/2008
Software Asset Management Seminar Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide 22/05/2008

Jobs

Job Title Location Description
Pre-Sales Team Leader Sydney Excellent opportunity to manage a team of pre-sales engineers within a global carrier. CCNA, CCDA or CCDP certs and prior pre-sales experience a must.
Business Development Manager, Storage, Perm, Sydney, $180K-$200 OTE Sydney Join this tier 2 company and work in style! Lush offices, Sydney CBD location, Excellent client portfolio, Awesome career progression, Fantastic pay!!
Project Administrator Sydney CBD Great team environment, reporting to IT Project Manager.
Security Consultant Sydney CBD Security Consultants, leading security consulting company, great salary, technology gadgets, work life balance.
Oracle Developers Sydney Calling all Oracle Developers for an on going contract with great remuneration and career progress...
BDM Storage & Virtualisation Sydney BDM, Storage & Virtualisation, Great earnings, uncapped commission plus more. TOP COMPANY NEEDS A TEAM OF BDMs.
Perl Programmers / Linux North Ryde Perl Programmers and LINUX expert (X6) 3 and 6 month contract, great salary and career progress
Project Coordinator $60k - $70K, CBD location Sydney CBD In provide effective project management, support and motivation to the team to facilitate timely delivery of projects to clients and associates, being internal or external.
PABX Field Engineer $60,000 - $80,000 Base + Super + Company Car + Overtime etc Brisbane Seeking PABX Field Engineer. Join one of Australia’s leading voice and data integrators. Motivated, self starter and people person.
Senor Sales for a Leading Managed Services & Infrastructure Firm Sydney Ambitious BDM; proven IT sales experience, great career opportunity uncapped salary realistic targets growing company recognised brand est. 17+ years...

Test Lab

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Seagate Cheetah NS

Seagate's latest enterprise SAS bridges the gap between performance and capacity. Surely there's a trade-off somewhere here. More »

Fujitsu Siemens FibreCAT TX24

A compact rack-mount autoloader offering lots of storage and great performance, plus remote management. More »

Vizioncore vReplicator 2.1

A reliable means of backing up virtual machines to prevent disasters. More »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform

More tools and good support options are just some of the highlights of this server package. More »

BlackBerry Curve 8300

A slim Blackberry that doesn't dispose of what makes Blackberries so popular and effective. More »

ScanSoft OmniPage Professional 15

A great choice for offices that need to recognise batches of documents, with its only real weakness being poor automatic zoning on complex documents. More »


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