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• Drupal conf heads to Brisbane in 2011 amid 7 release

  The international development community of the open source Drupal content management system will gather in Brisbane in January, including the project’s founder Dries Buytaert.

• Mobile technology a low priority for online retailers: report

  Some 69 per cent of the Australian online retail sector is increasing investment in technology while the majority hesitate to adopt mobile commerce strategies, says a new survey.

• Drupal Gardens getting ready to bloom

  Drupal Gardens, the planned cloud version of the open source Drupal content management system, went into a public beta stage Thursday, thus making it widely available for tryouts , said Drupal founder Dries Buytaert.

• WordPress 3.0 blogging software released

  A new version of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress has been posted, the cadre of volunteers behind the software announced on Thursday.

• Q&A: Hyundai Australia head of IT talks CMS upgrade

  Hyundai Australia’s head of IT, Bala Kothandaraman, spoke exculsively to CIO about the company's content management system upgrade the challenges of implementation. Kothandaraman heads up the IT operations for the company in Australia, and played a vital role in working with Elcom to roll out a new dealer portal where every Hyundai staff member in Australia can log on and access product information, images, marketing material, spare parts information, sales training, business updates, contact details and company annoucements.

• Uni college ups grade with open source CMS project

  Whitley College in Melbourne has implemented an open source content management system in a few months and puts the success of the project down to a trusted relationship with its service provider.

• Momentum builds for open content management standard

  A proposed standard meant to help content management systems communicate with each other has steady momentum, and an initial version could be finalized early next year.

• ALRC going for open source CMS website

  The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) is trekking down the open source path, putting out a tender for a content management system (CMS) to integrate with a planned new website.

• Wordpress puts RSS in the cloud for real time updates

  Popular content management system and blogging platform Wordpress has turned on support for a new technology that enables people to receive push notifications of feed updates on Web sites and blogs.

• Wyong Council to bring Web content in-house

  Wyong Shire Council on the NSW Central Coast is seeking to replace its existing Web content management system with something it can manage in-house.

• Unisys, NSW Police join forces on digital imagery

  New South Wales (NSW) Police has inked a three-year contract with Unisys Australia worth $6 million, for the implementation and maintenance of a digital image management system.