As anti-virus vendors have been warning, notorious social networking worm Koobface has resurfaced, this time to catch hordes of unsuspecting users of Facebook. Unfortunate Facebook users who happen to be caught out may well find themselves victims of identity theft.
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Eighties pop star Boy George is likely to face a jail sentence in January after being found guilty of false imprisonment for chaining a male escort he met online to a bed in his London flat.
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File under no surprise there then: the latest IDC EMEA Server Tracker figures, factory revenue in the EMEA server market has shown the biggest quarterly decline since 2005, and Western Europe is to blame.
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Telstra’s Greg Winn has poured cold water over the Government’s filtering
plans, saying it's akin to trying to “boil the ocean” and that people
will find a way around it, while GetUp!’s campaign to “Save the Net”
draws huge support from Australians.
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Two unemployed Australians have been charged with allegedly operating a
BitTorrent tracker site facilitating the download of terabytes of
movies and TV shows, charging up to 400,000 members $10 per month to be
VIP members, raking in tens of thousands of dollars and ripping off the
global media industry.
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Twitter is a popular web 2.0 site gaining huge traction in disproportion to its sheer simplicity. Twitter just asks, "What are you doing?" and nothing more. Despite this it has absolutely millions of page views with a global audience keeping in touch. Here are lessons that any business can take advantage of if they want their web apps to handle massive loads.
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Junior telco M2 Telecommunications Group (ASX: MTU) and struggling broadband provider People Telecom (ASX: PEO) have announced a friendly merger, which will see M2 acquire all of the smaller company's shares.
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The Australian Computer Society last week called for the Government to support the development of services that would exploit the future National Broadband Network, but according industry researcher, IBISWorld, industry is already champing at the bit for 12Mbps, and for speeds well beyond that.
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Dell is continuing its push into the Australian retail market, announcing a deal with The Good Guys to sell its consumer range of PCs and notebooks through the 87-store chain.
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The most family orientated of the three big players in electronic games has been rattled by a controversy with a racial epithet contained in the popular Animal Crossing game. But don't get too excited, there is something easy to blame, the Internet.
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What do you do when you are 20, passionate about open source and want nothing better during the long summer holidays than to be involved in activities surrounding FOSS?
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System administrators look like having a busy time in the run-up to Christmas as they digest and test the eight security bulletins that Microsoft expects to release next Tuesday. Six of the bulletins are rated critical.
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Telstra has staged the latest move in the ongoing PR battle over the National Broadband Network: a presentation from its 'Plumber', COO Greg Winn, seeking to communicate the complexity and difficulty of the project, and only Telstra's ability to build and operate it.
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The board of financial software and services company MYOB is maintaining its opposition to the bid made by US-Australian takeover vehicle Manhattan Software. "The offer is neither fair nor reasonable," said MYOB's chairman.
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Cisco has appointed Michael Lehmann as its new partner operations director for Australia and New Zealand. Mr Lehmann, who has worked in reseller, wholesaler and end-user organisations, will be responsible for leading a team to help increase partner profitability and growth in Australia and New Zealand through the promotion of the network as the platform for customer productivity.
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Nearly 90% of organisations in major markets across the world expect to maintain or grow their usage of software as a service (SaaS), putting enterprise software vendors such as Oracle and SAP under pressure, according to a new survey.
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A new study suggests that at least 98 percent of PCs are running at least one piece of software with a known security vulnerability.
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So you thought you could escape the barrage of advertising on commercial and pay TV by turning to games as a major source of entertainment? Not if Microsoft can help it!
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No, it's not the villain in the latest slasher movie - Koobface is a social networking worm affecting MySpace and Facebook. But like Jason and Freddie, Koobface refuses to die.
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Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC has made it to retail shelves and digital distribution services. The game will require SecurROM activation, but RockStar Games reassure GTA IV PC fans that the DRM won’t be too heavy.
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A UK company says its switch from Linux to Windows will save it £1 million (almost $A2.3 million). How does that work?
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Do you know how many visitors to your web site eventually end up making a purchase? Why did the others not buy? Did they drop out during the sales process? Can you work out why? And, importantly, can you pick that sale up again? The answers might be sitting dormant in your web log - if only someone looked.
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Telecommunications research firm Market Clarity says that Aussies are
switching to high-speed ADSL 2+ services, “with or without the
government’s NBN”, in a trend that “will drive the next five years of
broadband market development”.
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Domino’s Pizza will now come with a remote control – your brand-new TiVo box. Early in 2009, you will be able to order a Domino’s Pizza delivered right to your door. All you need do now is give the delivery guy your front-door key and you’ll never leave the sofa again.
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The newest top level domain, .tel, has finally gone on sale, with the
registery operator Telic now accepting applications for trademarks from
businesses and organizations worldwide. With the dotcom domain name
rush in the past, and now to the new dottel sell, it still seems
likely, even in the “economic crisis”, that Telnic will find sales
swift and swell.
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