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An increasingly tough IT services market has forced CSC to raise a 'for sale' sign with Gartner claiming the move is part of a broader consolidation trend impacting the Australian market.

Federal Cabinet has approved the introduction of an Australian identity card amid claims it could be a $5 billion noose for the government.

A Web-based approach for the triage of emergency patients has enhanced the oral health outcomes of thousands of Victorians.

Queensland's Department of Child Safety has revealed its new Information Renewal Initiative (IRI) will cost $61 million as it expands to accommodate additional agencies.

NSW Health has announced a three-year deal to standardize all desktops, servers and core infrastructure within local and state health outlets on Microsoft gear.

The Department of Defence is reviewing policy on agency usage of unclassified wireless networks on the back of a US-led mandate.

Linux is growing along with the wheat, barley, chickpeas, and lupins in Perenjori, a small shire in Western Australia, thanks to a man named Barry Kauler.

The IT&T sector is the least proactive in attracting and retaining mature-aged workers, despite the nation's rapidly ageing workforce and growing skills shortage, according to the latest Hudson report survey.

Second Ponds Creek, the new suburb in Sydney's North West is set to be Australia's largest fibre-to the-premises (FTTP) estate if Telstra gains confidence government regulation won't stifle its return on investment.

Australia's maritime industry is using innovative technical solutions to deal with a new security mandate to be introduced by January 1, 2007.

The Australian federal government has signed a whole-of-government agreement with Microsoft to exchange information on security issues ranging from cyberterrorism and general security bulletins.

Multimedia Victoria has begun a complete Web site refresh project for the portal Victoria online (www.vic.gov.au), with the entire project slated to last around six months.

The Digital Preservation team at the National Archives is looking to migrate its Xena preservation software to the new OpenDocument format with the next release of the software, in turn being the first Australian government agency to do so.

The British government could soon roll ahead with plans to issue national ID cards after both houses of Parliament reached a compromise Wednesday night on a bill detailing the plan.

Open source needs to scuttle the t-shirt and sandal-wearing 'hacker' image and adopt a business-like, influential approach to win more business from government customers, according to an AGIMo's second-in-command.

General manager of information and knowledge services in the Attorney General's Department, Graham Fry hopes the e-Government strategy launched on Thursday by the Australian Government Information Office in Canberra will be controversial.

As IT executives seek to transform their operations into true, corporate assets that can help grow the business at their companies, many are finding that first they must impose much tighter controls over their often vast and unwieldy portfolios of technology projects.

Only five agencies across the whole of government have taken steps to comply with a new e-mail mandate which was announced last September.

With a geospatial information system calculating trip distances and fares, Queensland Transport - the department which manages all matters related to roads and travel in the state - is now looking to share more information with other departments to aid planning and government service delivery.

Labor announced on Tuesday it will force Internet service providers (ISPs) to block violent and pornographic material.