Darren Pauli

Free vendor-agnostic recycling for business and individuals across the state of Victoria for 12 months is designed to salvage some of the 1.6 million computers dumped annually

A statewide recycling campaign may see the end of e-waste as landfill. The campaign, organized by the Australian Information Industry Association will offer free vendor-agnostic recycling for business and individuals across the state of Victoria for 12 months.

Advanced biometrics and nationwide databases containing information on DNA will be used to beef up Australian law enforcement agencies as part of an effort to tighten department collaboration investigations by July 2008.

The biometric data of each person entering Australia could be permanently stored in a central repository for identity verification and cross-checking between federal government departments, national and international anti-identity fraud efforts, and border control systems.

A recruitment firm is hunting for a new Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Australian Department of Defence. A defence spokesperson confirmed advertisements for the position will appear in the next two weeks to replace former CIO air vice-marshal John Monaghan.

Australia's biggest banks and the New South Wales (NSW) Roads and Traffic Authority joined the NSW Council of Civil Liberties to slam the biometrics industry for sidelining privacy concerns in a regulatory environment that can only be described as "weak and unethical."

Toyota Tsusho Corporation Australasia, the billion-dollar a year trading arm of Toyota Group, has deployed Web access management and anti-spam solutions to reduce wasted network resources and employee productivity.

An onslaught of tech activity has pushed the data centre to the forefront of all the IT action.