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When you think of web giants in terms of market share of eyes on sites, the chances are you think of Google ruling the roost. Well you would be wrong, Microsoft pwns the Web!
Telstra has named Glenice Maclellan as acting head of Telstra Consumer to replace group managing director, David Moffatt, whose resignation was announced in October.
Both Telstra and Optus have selected US based specialist WMC Global to monitor mobile premium SMS services advertising and SMS message flows during services opt-in and participation to ensure these conform to their respective contract requirements and the industry code.
Microsoft is playing things safe with the testing of the latest dashboard update for the Xbox 360 game console. Region specific, but containing Facebook and Twitter application integration, the public pre-release preview has been locked down for those over the age of 18.
The Queenwood School for Girls in the Sydney suburb of Mosman has chosen Meru Networks' 802.11n wireless local area network (LAN) to be implemented in its senior school campus.
Progress Software has appointed a new head of its Asia Pacific field operations responsible for managing a single integrated and customer-focused sales, services and support organisation.
The latest round of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations have wrapped up in South Korea. Amongst other things, if successful in their present form, the internationally agreed rules would completely sideline the iiNet case currently before the Australian courts.
Australia's third largest ISP iiNet chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby has admitted in Federal Court to dismissing AFACT allegations of iiNet customer copyright infringement, saying, "we were not going to do AFACT's job for them."
Dell officially announced a new laptop, the Adamo XPS, which the company says is the world's thinnest. It's supposed to be available for the holiday shopping season.
Internet security stalwart Kaspersky Labs has introduced Anti-Virus for Mac. The company is recommending it especially for mixed-platform environments, where it can keep Macs from hosting malware that might infect PCs.
RIM has debuted its new Blackberry Bold 9700 smartphone in Australia and
New Zealand, with a raft of new features and a fresh design. But is it
truly revolutionary?
Mixed-source technology company Novell has sacked between three and four percent of its staff in layoffs that could well be linked to another bad quarter.
Global healthcare systems vendor, InterSystems, has implemented its Australian-developed software, TrakCare, for the States of Guernsey Health and Social Services Department (HSSD). The island-wide Electronic Health and Social Care Record (EHSCR) system has just gone live, replacing the island’s SWIFT Patient Administration System after 13 years of use.
Internode is inviting its tech-savvy ADSL customers to participate in what it says will be an Australia-first technical trial of IPv6 running natively on its national ADSL broadband network.
Operational performance solutions vendor, myDIALS, has formed a partnership with IT services group, L7 Solutions, to deliver SaaS-based BI solutions to companies in the Western Australian market.
Operational performance solutions vendor, myDIALS, has formed a partnership with IT services group, L7 Solutions, to deliver SaaS-based BI solutions to companies in the Western Australian market.
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has accused Telecom New Zealand's Wholesale business unit of breaching its separation undertakings by discriminating between service providers.
The Christmas decorations are up in the shopping centres, and Navigon has launched a pair of new GPS units. (What I'd like, Santa, if you could manage it...)
TiVo's Australian distributor says that unmetered access to TiVo content has now reached a "critical mass" of 20 percent of Australian broadband subscribers following iiNet's announcement that it will offer unmetered access to TiVo content from late November.
The highest level of total malware detected in more than a year, and four times greater than detected levels in September, was reported last month, including scareware tactics reaching an all-time peak with the worst attacks ever reported, according to security firm Fortinet’s latest threatscape analysis.
5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support
Worldwide shipments of smartphones reached a high of nearly 40 million units in the third quarter of 2008, helping to grow the category by 28% from the same quarter last year.
