Microsoft has claimed a three-to-one Black Friday weekend victory for Xbox 360 over PlayStation 3. If the figures prove to be correct, Sony's expensive console could be in for a walloping at the sales counter this Christmas.
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Nokia Siemens Networks claims to have staged the first demonstration of LTE-A (long term evolution-advanced) wireless broadband technology, a future evolution of today's 3G networks that could deliver speeds up to 1Gbps. But don't hold you breath.
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National ICT recruiter Finite IT Recruitment is not letting Federal Government razor gang sentiments dampen its business outlook for the Australian Capital Territory, announcing that the company has relocated to new, larger, state of the art offices in Canberra.
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Google is set to expand into the mobile market place in a big way and mobile search will a key growth driver for the Internet search and advertising market leader over the next five years. These are the fndings of a new report from a media industry analyst group.
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Ericsson is to shed about 100 staff and 200 contractors in Australia and New Zealand over the next six months, but says this represents the local implementation of a global cost cutting programme announced in February - and impending project completions -rather than a consequence of the current global economic troubles.
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The Srizbi botnet has proved sufficiently robust to partially recover from the isolation of its command and control servers. So much for claims that it was 'completely defunct'.
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Seemingly sick to death of constant attack on Telstra from “dead tree
journalists” with an agenda, competitors and "geeky" Whirlpool critics, Telstra’s “Telstra-phile” Rod Bruem
is taking the broom to the critics and whacking them over the head with
it.
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The global economic crisis is taking its toll on many technology companies and Mandriva, the Linux company based in France, has now taken a hit.
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Pipe Networks ambitious plan to build a submarine cable between Sydney and Guam is on hold after negotiations with financial backers collapsed.
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Barack Obama promised change during the US Presidential election race, now he is delivering it by adopting a Creative Commons license and introducing online public discussion forums as a first step towards a Google-enabled government.
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Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has given a $700,000 foundation grant to the nascent peak body formed to represent consumer telecoms users, the Australian Communications Consumers Action Network (ACCAN).
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Response One Group, today announces the appointment of Ross Barnes as Head of Digital Media.
In the pledge to put digital marketing at the centre of their offering and enhance customer satisfaction, Response One has selected Barnes to spearhead the digital planning team in this newly created role. The move builds on the agency’s success in email marketing and looks to provide truly integrated media planning, giving clients holistic insight into their direct marketing campaigns.
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Looks like the Times Online’s report about Microsoft offering $20
billion to buy Yahoo was bogus, with key figures in both the Microsoft
and Yahoo camps saying there’s no truth to the story. The thing is, the
denials could be yet more misinformation...
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combit software Advent calendar: Discount instead of chocolate
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Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin claims that communications minister Stephen Conroy has ignored written advice from the Attorney General that he could only accept Telstra's non-compliant bid for the national broadband network by altering the terms of the RFP.
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What financial crisis? The Wii dominates the Black Friday sales weekend.
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A new national IT skills index developed by Clarius, the parent of ICT recruiter Candle, in conjunction with KPMG Econtech shows demand for skilled IT people outstripping supply by 9000 in the September quarter. However, ICT ranked only seventh of the skills surveyed. The most severe shortfall is for chefs.
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According to market research firm, Telsyte, telecoms services providers will gain from the slowing economy in 2009 as organisations turn to unified communications, collaboration tools and mobility to cut costs and boost productivity.
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Reports that billionaire Carl Icahn had bought a further $US67 million of Yahoo! stock led to a significant rise in the company's share price late last week.
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With the RFPs for Australia's National Broadband Network now in, communications minister Stephen Conroy is talking about awarding contract(s) by the end of March, but the Australian Computer Society has re-iterated its warnings that figuring out what we are going to use the network for should be a national priority.
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Use of mobile Web sites is growing at 10 percent every month, yet mobile sites struggle to deliver an effective experience, according to a new report from research firm, Yankee Group.
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Telstra's chairman has sunk to a new low in its attempts to discredit rivals in the battle for the National Broadband Network, branding former Telstra executives heading rival bidder, Acacia, as having "not done the company any good at all and not done a lot of good for the customers."
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Did anyone really believe Ballmer when he said that he wasn't still
interested in buying Yahoo? Well, truth be told, Ballmer always said
he'd be interested in doing a deal for Yahoo's search business. Looks
like the money dancer is firing his latest shot!
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A new report says that “click fraud” will shape advertiser decisions in
2009, while CFN’s “Click Fraud Index” shows that “the growth in click
fraud traffic from botnets continues to rise and it should be one of
the top areas advertisers that the industry should monitor closely”.
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NEC's broadband subsidiary, Nextep, has joined the rapidly growing list of wholesale customers for Telstra's 1400 exchange ADSL2+ network, a move likely to support NEC's new role as prime contractor for the Federal Government's $15 million broadband for Seniors project.
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