Live American sport streaming to the PC, Australian home cable tv company FOXTEL has teamed up with ESPN to bring sports fans ESPN360
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Global storage management software vendor, Acronis says it has hired technology industry “luminary” and 20 year IT industry veteran, Steve Mann as its chief marketing officer, charged with leading its worldwide marketing efforts.
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The South Australian Government today announced a three-year contract with Microsoft to deploy a new hosted email service, making instant messaging, an online calendar and the ability to share online documents, available to more than 80,000 students and staff at TAFE SA from next year.
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Australia’s malware infection rate is significantly lower than the worldwide average, with estimates by Microsoft that 3.9 systems in Australia are infected for every one thousand systems on which the company’s malicious software removal tool is executed, compared to the worldwide average of 8.7 systems per one thousand executed, or more than double Australia’s infection rate.
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The Government says it will comply with a Senate motion seeking information on the circumstances in which senior Queensland Labor staffer Mike Kaiser was hired by the NBN Company.
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AT&T has launched, globally, a cloud computing service designed to "give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity."
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Spending on information technology will rise by 2.6 per cent next year – but half of all CIOs should expect their IT budgets to stay the same or even contract next year before a slow improvement in 2011 according to industry analyst Gartner.
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The Australian Greens have issued a dissenting report on amendments to the Telecommunications Interception Act, objecting to increased powers given to authorities to intercept internet messages for the purpose of protecting critical computer network infrastructure.
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Telstra CEO David Thodey does not believe telcos can make money out of providing ICT services and spelled out clearly today that “We will never become an IT services company.”
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Is your Excel spreadsheet recalculating too slowly? Maybe the answer is to move it to a cluster. If Excel isn't your bag, Microsoft has other HPC tricks up its sleeve.
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Australian-listed enterprise software company, TechnologyOne, has created a new executive role in a move which the company says is the next step in its development and achievement of a long-term strategy for its vertical markets business.
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The Coalition has raised the stakes in its campaign against the appointment of Queensland Premier Anna Bligh’s chief of staff Mike Kaiser to the NBN Company, filing a Senate motion to clarify whether any Ministers assisted the hiring process.
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The IT industry in Australia is beginning to show signs of recovery, although many organisations remain cautious about permanent hiring as a result of budget constraints, according to a new IT labour market survey just released which also reveals that there was a modest increase in hiring of both permanent and contract job categories over the three months to September.
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South Australia’s Flinders University is deploying Microsoft’s Live@edu email solution for used by more than 16,000 undergraduate and post-graduate coursework students as the university looks to cope with increasing demands on storage and computing resources.
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IBM has snared a $14.5 million agreement with the Northern Territory's multi-utility provider, Power and Water Corporation, to design and implement an asset management system aimed at delivering electricity, water and sewerage services to the corporation’s 80,000 customers across more than 1.3 million kilometres of the Top End territory more efficiently.
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Mid-market software vendor and developer, Pronto Software, has beaten off the competition, including SAP, to win a contract with the Australian-arm of Freeworld Coatings, a global specialised coatings company, to implement its ERP solution across Freeworld’s recently restructured Australian operations.
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A SQL injection vulnerability left the Yahoo! jobs site open to attack for an unknown length of time.
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Dell has inked an enterprise license agreement with the Victorian Government to provide VMware virtualisation to 15 of the government’s agencies in a deal worth more than $3 million over two years.
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A California court has rendered summary judgments in favor of Apple and against Mac clonemaker Psystar on several counts of copyright infringement. Several issues remain to be tried, though, and the ruling did not address damages.
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Cisco has upped the price of its bid for global video company Tandberg from $US3.0 billion to approximately $3.4 billion after failing to secure acceptances from more than 10 percent of shareholder when the, already extended, deadline of its initial bid expired on 16 November.
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Korean cellphone maker Samsung has unveiled its own open mobile platform, dubbed Bada for touch screen based cellphones.
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Australia’s now going through a period of sustained, increased demand for skilled ICT professionals and according to the largest ICT industry recruiter, Peoplebank, the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth markets, in particular, are experiencing a strong lift in demand for IT workers.
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Today’s release of the list of the top 500 supercomputers shows that well over 90% are running Linux. Also, IBM’s Roadrunner has finally been dethroned; in a big way!
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US based Boingo Wireless - which provides wireless Internet access around the globe through arrangements with local WiFi hotspot operators - has added the 16,000 Tomizone hotspots in Australia, China, India, New Zealand and several Pacific Islands, to its global network.
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The agency responsible for processing 25 million international passengers annually through airports lacked an up-to-date disaster recovery plan and did not adequately track ICT-related problems, an Australian National Audit Office report has found.
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