Indigenous Australians are being given a look into the world of IT and opportunities for employment in the industry with the launch today of an initiative by telecommunications specialist, Comscentre, in partnership with the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES).
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InsideView and NetSuite are claiming the first social intelligence application to bring social media to both CRM and ERP with the release today of InsideView for NetSuite.
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PC peripheral specialist Logitech International is to acquire privately held videoconferencing specialist, LifeSize Communications for $US405 million in cash in a move designed to take high definition videoconferencing and video communications to the small enterprise and consumer markets.
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Optus has reported revenues of $2.22 billion for its second quarter, to 30 September; a 7.4 percent increase on the same period last year. EBITDA grew 6.4 percent to $509 million and net profit increased 22 percent to $152 million. The percentages of Optus' revenue and EBITDA attributable to its mobile business continue to grow and have now reached 62 percent and 68 percent respectively.
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According to reports, at least 600,000 Xbox Live users can no longer access their accounts.
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Michael Lee, a communications minister in the Labor Government, has been appointed chair of Communications Alliance, effective from 1 January 2010. He will replace Neville Stevens who is stepping down after seven years in the post.
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Three years have gone by since Novell sold out the entire free and open source software community by signing a patent indemnification deal with Microsoft.
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Well look at that, a free PS3 offer looks to be proving popular for Sony, so much so that the company is tossing another 10,000 PS3 units upon the 25,000 given away with recent BRAVIA LCD TV purchases.
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The European Union has formally objected to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, illustrating an obvious fact: the US is a declining financial power.
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According to the OECD, while the retail sector globally has been hit hard by the global financial crisis, e-commerce has fared well and has seen continuing growth in many countries. But it warns that more needs to be done to strengthen people's trust in buying online.
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Andrew McMillan's long beard, streaked with flecks of grey, sits nicely with his status as one of New Zealand's senior geeks. It fits even better after one becomes aware that, before he ventured into technology, he obtained a degree in philosophy.
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Telstra CIO John McInerney is going up to Queensland to kick the tyres of Suncorp’s IT systems at the end of the month, and grill Jeff Smith, who was Telstra’s CIO from 2002 to 2005, about how he has implemented Agile development techniques at the financial services company.
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Apple has released an update and security patch, OS X 10.6.2, which fixes several bugs and patches numerous security vulnerabilities. Reports are that it also disables at least some "hackintoshes," or PCs modified to run OS X.
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Please don't shoot the messenger, but all is not well in Firefox land.
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As well as announcing a net loss of $US391 million, Electronic Arts is set to close several facilities and reduce headcount by around 17%.
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Optus has increased its mobile customer base by 10 percent to 8.225m in the year to 30 September.
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The Australian-developed iPhone application, i am Safe, that can be used by iPhone users anywhere in the world to alert family or friends when they are in trouble, now has users in more than 54 countries just five and a half weeks after becoming available on the iTunes App Store.
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Adam Internet has launched services and announced prices on the WiMAX network it is rolling out in Adelaide to provide broadband services to residents in a number of blackspot areas.
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Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, has brought together Chinese and Australian policy makers, industrialists and researchers in a first-ever ICT summit it is hosting in Shanghai to discuss the future of information and communication technologies.
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The LG Watch Phone, a 3G phone no bigger than a clunky wrist watch, is expected to go on sale in Australia in December, for about $2300.
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Sydney based Symantec subsidiary, PC Tools has launched its latest series of security tools aimed at value conscious customers.
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Pre-order the Bayonetta Climax Edition and SEGA will send you a pink Scarborough Fair pistol.
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Some of Australia's biggest brand names - Vodafone Hutchison and Coca Cola - have fallen foul of the Spam Act over their involvement in a Coca Cola SMS marketing campaign, with VHA paying the ACMA $110,000 and Coca Cola receiving a formal warning.
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IMS - the three letter acronym for the IP Multimedia Subsystem is a term seldom heard and little understood outside technical telecommunications circles, but it's going to have a very big factor in Telstra's competitiveness in an NBN and post-separation world.
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Domino's have beaten rivals Pizza Hut to the punch with a new iPhone
app, allowing hungry customers to order pizzas from wherever they are,
whenever they want. Record levels of laziness soon to follow.
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