February 2008 - Posts
Microsoft is partnering with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on its 2008 consumer fraud campaign: Scams Target You. The campaign is an initiative of the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce, which includes State, Territory and the
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Microsoft has announced that it will make its most widely used enterprise business products more open. What does that mean? In the technology world ‘openness’ is broadly understood to refer to the extent to which one product, application or
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Microsoft Australia yesterday (14 February) officially launched the company’s Employee Citizenship program targeting its 750 staff. The new program includes paid volunteer leave, workplace giving and software donations. NSW Minister for Volunteering,
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Last November a majority of Australians voted for the first Federal Labor Government this century.
Labor was elected on a broad platform of policy reform. Without getting into the murky waters of mandate debates it is clear that Labor promised to do many things that would impact the information technology (IT) industry. These included the “education revolution” (to better equip secondary students with technology in the classroom), a commitment to internet filtering at the internet service provider (ISP) level, the blacklisting of violent and paedophile material on the internet and a new approach to industry innovation policy.
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In this new political landscape the IT industry has the opportunity to deliver on its claims to be able to enable a ‘new world’ of work, education, living and commerce.
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