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by David M Williams
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The Apprentice is a popular business-oriented reality show where potential high flyers are let loose into genuine commercial organisations. Monday night’s episode of The Apprentice Australia will feature a Windows-related challenge by Microsoft.
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by Peter Dinham
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Americans, it seems, are getting the message that Internet safety and security is critical to their daily lives but many still need to employ safer cyber 'hygiene' and apply better ‘online behaviour’ to meet the threats of today that permeate the online environment.
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by Peter Dinham
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Telepresence provider, Tandberg, has released to the market what it claims is ‘breakthrough technology’ with its Unified Communications gateway which enables Microsoft Office Communicator users to experience high definition video quality when connecting to standards based systems.
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by David M Williams
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd came to power on top of a raft of election promises, one of which included laptops for high school students. While the deployment was not without controversy thousands upon thousands have now been distributed in NSW. Yet, forum postings reveal students are using them for game playing and online chat right in front of oblivious teachers.
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by Peter Dinham
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The worldwide mobile phone market is showing the first signs of improvement since the start of the global economic crisis, with IDC reporting mild sequential growth in the third quarter this year and vendors “setting the stage for further gains by launching their flagship devices to meet pent up demand.”
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by Peter Dinham
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The Commonwealth Bank’s websites have been recognised as one of the ‘world’s most well executed’, winning four awards in the 2009 Interactive Media Awards (IMA), with NetBank and commbank.com.au receiving the ‘best in class for financial services and 'best in class' for banking’ categories.
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by Stephen Withers
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A deal between online photo service Snapfish and Walmart means customers will be able to collect their prints in one hour from more than 3000 participating stores.
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by Stephen Withers
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Capgemini is to boost the number of its business information management consultants by 3000. This will be a 75% increase.
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by Stephen Withers
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Apple has released a major new version of the software for the Apple TV home entertainment device. A supporting version of iTunes - including a couple of other minor changes - also arrived.
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by Jake Widman
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UK-based Livedrive is launching its online storage and file sharing service in the U.S. The service provides automatic backup and syncing with version control, as well as the ability to edit online files via the browser.
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by Peter Dinham
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There’s a growing trend amongst businesses in the Asia Pacific region towards ‘real-time’ information needs as companies continue to grow their data warehouses (DWs) to cope with increasing requirements for data analysis, and to meet compliance requirements and enable fact-based decision making.
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by Stephen Withers
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The Federal Government has invited bids to roll out Australia's first commercial-scale smart electricity grid.
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by Stephen Withers
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Amazon has come up with an idea to make online shopping even easier by reducing the need to remember multiple user names and passwords. The new service also lets parents give their kids shopping freedom within limits.
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by Stephen Withers
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While there's no indication yet of how many Australians have ordered a Kindle, there are signs of considerable interest.
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by Beverley Head
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Small and medium Australian enterprises are particularly vulnerable to computer security breaches, with the average SME breach costing $37,661. Yet in spite of the threat, three in four Australian SMEs last year froze or cut their IT security budgets.
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by Stephen Withers
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Microsoft has been adding and improving speech recognition in a variety of its products and services. Cloud-based recognition is expected to push the technology even further along.
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