Security solutions provider, Cybertrust, has won a Federal Government contract for the public key infrastructure technology component of the pilot for the new Australian ePassport. Cybertrust's Australian team will also tender for a number of international ePassport contracts.

Air traffic control simulation software developer, Adacel (ASX:ADA) has been awarded a $4 million contract to supply air traffic control tower simulators to Italy's air traffic authority, ENAV (Ente Nazionale de Assistenza Al Volo).

The boss of systems integrator and education software developer, CSM Group Limited, David Knowles, has indicated that there is currently just one way forward for the company – to list in 2005.

There are not many, if any, decent online business users who do not loathe spammers. They fall into the same basket as virus and Trojan horse propagators and the promulgators of the more virulent species of spyware products. However, the new Federal Government anti-spam legislation is a knee jerk over-reaction that may in fact hamper the activities of legitimate online small business operators.