Police probed on racist email

UP TO 100 police are under investigation over a racist email.

Railcorp's efficiency software delays payments

RAILCORP is running up to three months late with thousands of payments to its private contractors because of a computer system it introduced to improve transparency and efficiency.

Society€™s bastion falls to evolution

ANOTHER male bastion has fallen with the Royal Society of Victoria electing the first woman president in its 156-year history.

Blitz nets $127m in 'black taxes'

A BLITZ on the black economy has resulted in the Tax Office approaching 109,000 small businesses in just eight months, and collecting $127 million.

Doctoring hospital patient data should be criminal offence, says physician

MANIPULATING hospital performance data should be made a criminal offence in the same way corporate directors are prosecuted for cooking the books, according to an article in The Medical Journal of Australia.

Briefs

Suspects cleared

Terror ride 4WD gets the all-clear

POLICE have been unable to find any fault with the cruise control in a runaway four-wheel-drive that terrified its driver last month.

Forensics boss 'scapegoat'

Whistleblower says warnings of IT mismanagement were ignored

Polanski has already paid for his crime

We should heed the victim when pursuing the famous director, writes Duncan Campbell.

The car with potential to save the world €“ but first it must escape from the garage

WITH few clunky mechanical parts, the revolutionary all-electric ManGo may well be the car of the future.

Fight against TB is well in hand

Melbourne-based company MycroLab beat 300 entrants from 19 countries to win this year's INNOVIC's International Next Big Thing Awards with its innovative, hand-held medical diagnostic system.

Penitent yet defiant, CBA steers blame on to Storm

THE Commonwealth Bank is continuing to use the computer valuation system which, it admits, was partly responsible for irresponsible lending to clients of Storm Financial.

Criminals entrenched in docks and airports

AUSTRALIA'S wharves and airports have been infiltrated by organised crime figures and are vulnerable to criminal exploitation, according to a confidential inquiry.

Bank 'linked' system to Storm

THE Commonwealth Bank devised a computer system that encouraged clients of Storm Financial to increase their borrowing, making them more vulnerable to a sharemarket plunge, according to a former senior manager of the collapsed financial planner.

Sync And Swim

Get your home and work computers talking and life becomes a lot easier, writes Dan Warne.

A Leader In The Making

Amid threats from cyber-hackers, internal division, failed strategies and a few out-there ideas, the Obama presidential campaign was a long and sometimes roller-coaster journey.