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Sack us and we will leave with your data, say IT Admins
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2008-08-27 10:20:55
That seems to be the message coming from the latest Cyber-Ark survey of IT Administrators which reveals that 88 percent of them, if laid off tomorrow, would steal valuable and sensitive company data before they left.


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IBM brings another jobs boost to Ballarat
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2008-08-27 03:03:00
IBM will expand its presence in the Australian regional city of Ballarat with a new IT centre that will see the company's 800-strong workforce expand by another 300 over the next five years.


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OMG – Telstra raises BigPond and Business wireless broadband download caps!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-08-21 21:14:59
After much price competition from 3 Mobile, Optus and Vodafone, Telstra has finally moved to increase the value of its Next G wireless broadband plans for consumers and business. They’re still a lot more expensive than competitors, but the introduction of a 10GB plan will make some users very happy indeed.


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Windows 7: Vista-like hell or an OS heaven?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-08-18 05:05:22
Sick to death of the bad publicity Windows Vista has received due to Microsoft’s own premature announcements, hastily deleted features, incredibly poor initial driver support and bad OEM manufacturer relations, Microsoft is promising its new Windows 7 blog will be regularly updated, full of reliable disclosure and a solid commitment to “promise and deliver” with “high quality and on time”. Is Microsoft on the right track, or will pigs fly first?


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2012 Olympics travel plans in doubt as Oyster card contract is scrapped
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Enterprise

2008-08-11 10:54:35
If the Oyster card, a RFID-based fare collection and ticketing system for London buses, tube trains and the Docklands Light Railway, has been such a huge success with 6 million cards in active use and 38 million journeys made every week, then why is Transport for London terminating its £100 million a year Oyster contract?


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iPhone bashing BlackBerry making Bold debut in Europe
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-08-08 08:10:08
There is plenty of talk about Apple wanting a slice of BlackBerry pie with the iPhone 3G and MobileMe. But what is Research in Motion doing to fight back? Being Bold in Europe, is the cryptic but correct answer...


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Endpoint Virtualisation: Symantec strikes back
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2008-08-06 04:57:59
Symantec is aggressively expanding into the “endpoint virtualisation” space by seriously upgrading its virtualisation capabilities and credentials, buying out nSuite, a ‘virtual workspace management’ company whose product competes with VMware’s VDI solution, Citrix’s XenDesktop and XenApp combo and other competitors.


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3100 professionals, 95 countries, 21 options and the 7 IT related business issues that matter most
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Enterprise

2008-08-05 07:12:03
ISACA, the acronym formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, has been busy surveying IT professionals from nearly 100 countries to reveal the top 7 business issues that are impacted by technology, and will continue to be for the next 12 months. It would be mean of us not to share...


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Dell makes grab for the Cloud Computing trademark
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Regulatory

2008-08-03 10:22:02
Despite hardly being the first name that springs to mind when cloud computing technology is mentioned, Dell looks set to successfully trademark the generic 'cloud computing' term after its formal application was published for opposition and nobody bothered to complain...


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Telstra claims Australian first with 3D TV
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-07-29 22:46:16
Although 3D TV has been demonstrated over several years at technology trade shows, for gaming, advertising, television, movies and more, Telstra claims it’s first to commercially install the technology at its “Executive Briefing Centre” in Melbourne, Australia.


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Vodafone nicely slices international roaming prices – cool!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-07-27 22:43:11
Vodafone is proactively slicing the price of international mobile roaming charges, which consumer or business travellers overseas on the Vodafone network will surely love, with a special deal for China during August and the Olympics. It looks very impressive and I can’t seem to find any hidden catches, despite trying!!


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del.icio.us 2.0 announced as Digg deal eats dirt for Google
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2008-07-27 09:20:36
Social media is meant to break the news, but of late has been making the news instead. Hot on the heels of Google apparently walking away from a potential $200 million acquisition of Digg, comes the news that one of the old men of social media might be heading back into the spotlight with the launch of del.icio.us 2.0


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Sensis lets search engines index Yellow Pages content!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2008-07-23 00:06:52
Sensis has finally seen the 21st century light, letting search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and others access “the biggest local business database” in Australia – for the first time.


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Is open source software bad for business?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Open Source

2008-07-21 06:47:51
One security outfit which conducted a study into the use of open source software in the enterprise, the results of which are published today, seems to think so.  It states that "Open Source Software (OSS) development communities have yet to adopt a secure development process and often leave dangerous vulnerabilities unaddressed."


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Citrix announces “virtual machines on any hypervisor” project
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2008-07-17 09:05:17
Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”, designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.


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Games industry records another bumper year
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT

Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog

2008-07-10 23:26:27
Despite battling a backwards censorship system in Australia , it looks like those in the Australian game industry are raking in the dollars.


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The full skinny: all the text, of all the letters, between Icahn, Microsoft and Yahoo!
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2008-07-08 18:08:17
With the failed Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! given a fresh injection of oomph by Carl Icahn we reveal just who said what to whom in the ongoing war of words that could result in the biggest and most audacious technology sector hijacking the world has ever seen.



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As web legend Andreessen joins Facebook we ask what happens next?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2008-07-01 06:58:12
One has changed the face of social networking, the other changed the face of the web. Now that Facebook and Marc Andreessen have joined forces who knows what will change next...


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TrustDefender and BCU credit union in “Australian first” for banking transaction security
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-06-26 02:10:14
BCU, one of Australia’s biggest regional credit unions, has signed a deal with TrustDefender to offer its transaction security software free of charge to all BCU members in what is an “Australian first” for the banking industry.


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Credit crunch will not impact upon IT spending
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2008-06-25 05:11:53
That is the rather surprising conclusion of a VeriSign sponsored survey, published today. In fact 63 percent of the IT professionals questioned said there will be no such cut backs in the UK next year.


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