Stories about: Department of Defence

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    Defence launches robot soldier competition 14/07/2009 14:16:00

    The Federal Government has launched a $US1.6 million competition to build a new fleet of military robots.
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    Unisys to Help NSW Police Force Use Digital Imagery as New Weapon in Law Enforcement and Crime Prevention 18/06/2009 13:29:00

    Secure digital imagery management system to help law enforcement officers more efficiently access and store images and video to assist investigations.
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    NSW govt deploys records management 09/09/2008 11:18:00

    The NSW Attorney-General's Department has deployed a new Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to cut costs from disparate IT systems and better manage its corporate data.
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    CSIRO develops technology that goes where GPS can't 31/07/2008 12:33:39

    The CSIRO has developed a new wireless localisation system with the ability to track, sense and communicate in areas where GPS and other wireless technologies cannot work.
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    Defence e-mail goes off-the-shelf 23/07/2008 14:23:32

    The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has purchased a new e-mail classification system to reduce data loss and maintain compliance with federal regulations.
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    Cover all bases for proactive network security: Defence 20/05/2008 11:36:29

    The Department of Defence has chimed in on the network security debate, stating organizations need to be more proactive if they expect to ward off attackers that readily exploit the high levels of trust usually reserved for employees and known systems.
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    Who's behind Wikipedia? 06/02/2008 08:50:27

    In January 2001 the English language version of Wikipedia opened for business, and was quickly followed by versions in French, German, Catalan and Swedish. Over the past seven years it has grown to include over 250 language editions with more than eight million articles, almost a quarter of which are in English. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia is the world's largest ever encyclopedia. Thanks to the GNU Free Documentation License that covers all Wikipedia content, it is also the most open and free. But just who is behind Wikipedia, and how does it work? Computerworld recently spoke to Brianna Laugher, a Wikipedia editor and presenter at last year's international Wikipedia conference.
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    GeoNames founder opens up the GIS world 21/11/2007 05:13:00

    GeoNames is a free and open source geographical database. Primarily for developers wanting to integrate the project into web services and applications, it integrates world-wide geographical data including names of places in various languages, elevation, population, and all latitude / longitude coordinates. Users are able to manually edit, correct and add new names with a user-friendly wiki interface. The data is accessible through a number of webservices and a daily database export.
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    Drupal: from a drop in the ocean to a big fish in the CMS world 15/10/2007 09:59:33

    Drupal started out as a college experiment.
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    Online gaming Defence's new recruitment tool 16/07/2007 11:25:36

    The Department of Defence's recruitment arm, Defence Force Recruiting (DFR), has launched an online game site to attract more people into defence jobs.
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    Coonan sees panacea to shrinking bandwidth 01/09/2005 08:00:20

    Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan has waved off concerns of a looming spectrum shortage, predicting wireless broadband, datacasting by television networks and third-generation mobile technologies will all be able to live happily together.
 
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