The Commonwealth has tipped $26 million into a new supercomputer project at the Australian National University that could ultimately be used to crank through the massive volumes of data generated by the Square Kilometre Array project.
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Curtin University of Technology researcher, Don Griffiths, has been awarded a government grant to develop a system that enables a secure computing environment to be loaded onto a USB memory stick and then used to provide secure access to corporate applications from any PC.
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The national broadband network will create new opportunities for mobile data, but the main game for the mobile carriers remains access to future spectrum allocations, Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association chief executive Chris Althaus says.
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After a slow start, New Zealand is poised to accelerate implementation of the next generation Internet protocol, IPv6, with the formation of the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force.
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Technology industry veteran Bruce Lakin has been appointed as the Australian Computer Society’s new chief executive and nominated the National Broadband Network, digital economy issues and skills development as priorities in the new role.
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Lebara Mobile - the UK based mobile service provider and recent entrant to the Australian market that specialising in providing low cost international calls from mobiles - has cut its already low rates to as low as one cent per minute for six destinations.
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Increasing raw throughput over its predecessor by a factor of ten, the new Sun Constellation supercomputer was officially launched today.
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Need a fix of turn-based combat orientated Japanese flavoured role playing? Final Fantasy XIII might be for you. Publisher Ubisoft has revealed details for the upcoming Square Enix epic.
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Amazon Web Services - Amazon's cloud computing platform has announced plans to expand into the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010 with the introduction of regional infrastructure to support its cloud computing services.
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Telstra has unveiled a plan setting out how it intends to reduce its carbon footprint over the next six years, but the reported, and impossible, target of 10 percent for every dollar earned is not part of it.
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Australian hosted recruitment software provider, RecruitAdvantage, is presently facing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its online TurboRecruit product. The company has taken parts of its sites offline, affecting customers and jobseekers nationwide.
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Industry leader Google is set to turn the desktop OS war on its head, with
several sources tipping that the company's new Chrome OS is about to make its debut later
this week.
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Optus has opened a mobile applications store that gives its mobile customers one-stop shop access to a number of other mobile applications stores.
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Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has defended the Rudd Government's record on micro-economic reform in the wake of its continued protection of the book publishing industry, pointing to the telecommunications reforms currently before the Parliament as a huge and challenging undertaking.
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Having filled many of the top tier positions reporting directly to executive chairman Mike Quigley, the NBN Company has embarked on a broad campaign to fill the next layer of technology management specialists.
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Symantec has appointed a new sales director for its hosted services business in Australia and New Zealand. Former Dell national sales director, Keith Buckley, has joined Symantec with overall responsibility for sales and client management in the ANZ market.
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Victorian Government owned water authority, Western Water, has deployed a solution from Open Spatial to manage its spatial data for servicing nearly 50,000 of its customers in regional towns west of Melbourne.
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Sophos' Graham Cluley is amazed at the reception given to the iPhone worm creator. Others have offered a mix of jobs and death threats.
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Optus chief Paul O'Sullivan has urged Federal Parliament to pass without delay telecommunications reform legislation scheduled to be debated in the Senate over the next two weeks, saying the changes will unleash a new wave of competition in the
sector.
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A South Australian local government authority is claiming reductions of $20,000 in annual cost reductions with the installation of its new inter-town wireless network from local vendor, MIMP Connecting Solutions.
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Microsoft has admitted that a download utility it was providing to its customers was in violation of the GNU General Public Licence and promised to release the source as soon as possible.
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The tradition of purchasing artificial poppies on Armistice Day (11 November) goes back to the 1920s. Today, Armistice Day poppies have gone virtual.
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NBN Co has appointed Mike Kaiser - former chief of staff to NSW premier Morris Iemma and presently chief of staff to Queensland premier, Anna Bligh - as principal – government relations and external affairs and Claire Rawlins as chief information officer.
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Business software giant, SAP, has made its debut in the local market for telco converged billing and charging products with the launch in Australia of the SAP Convergent Charging billing application and the appointment of Mike Robinson as head of Telecommunications, SAP Australia and New Zealand.
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Australian Mobile Telecommunications Group (AMT) has launched a service, My Number, that enables mobile phone users to buy a mobile number that, when translated using the letters on a phone's keypad, spells something meaningful. Owners of meaningful numbers can also auction these via the My Number website.
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