Aiming to help Internet users fight the rising levels of spam hitting their inbox, the Australian Internet Industry Association announced on Wednesday it is offering consumers a free one-month trial of a range of antispam software products.
Looking to expand its academic support for software developers, Microsoft has introduced a new .NET-based postgraduate course within its IT Masters education program.
A new report on the federal government’s IT outsourcing policies has given credit to the role of the DCITA in monitoring the effectiveness of its contractors, but says the government should increase the department’s scope to ensure suppliers meet Australian industry development requirements.
Storing and maintaining the mountains of scientific data Australia’s Antarctic researchers generate is not a job for the faint-hearted. But keeping tabs on each and every piece of information while making it accessible to the public is the challenge the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) Data Centre’s database management team has undertaken.
A new open source data query system combining elements of the PostgreSQL relational database with adaptive query technologies has been released by researchers at the University of California (UC) Berkeley campus.
For most people, America Online (AOL) is synonymous with Internet services, instant messaging or multimedia Web sites. But in the Australian market, the interactive media giant’s AOL|7 branch is also proving an unexpected advocate for open source.
A new global numbering domain system designed to converge telephone numbers with Internet addresses will hit Australian shores whether the local industry actively trials the technology or not, industry representatives claim.
IT professionals with Cisco certifications will soon see some changes in the exam content and coding line up that reflect both their increased skills levels and changing technologies.
Information systems and security professionals wanting to add a security credential to their CV may now have further opportunity to do so, following the launch of a new international security management certification.
The increasingly influential role of open source software as an alternative to proprietary solutions has prompted the federal government to put together a new seminar looking at the demand for open source systems across departmental agencies.
Simulating the Antarctic environment may involve a wealth of scientific know-how, but for the team involved with the Tasmania Partnership for Advanced Computing (TPAC), it's also about having the most advanced and steadfast computing power at your fingertips.
A new Internet document classifications system which employs linguistics theory to identify online breaches of the Corporations Act is set to become the latest weapon in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) arsenal against Australian Web scammers.
An annual three-day conference that will look into the Visual Objects application development environment is aimed at unravelling the mysteries of Microsoft's .Net framework to application developers.
WorldCom has appointed Trevor Duff, its current Australian managing director, as the new acting managing director of ISP OzEmail.
PostgreSQL developers and advocates notched up a significant win for the open source database following the successful transition this month of the .ORG domain registry to the object-relational management system.