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by Stephen Withers
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Parallels has extended its hypervisor technology to the virtual server market. Along with the introduction of Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal, the company has updated Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.5 for Windows.
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by David Heath
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The culmination of the FBI’s Operation Phish Phry, commenced in 2007, has seen one hundred people in USA and Egypt charged with various financial crimes in the past 48 hours.
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by Stephen Withers
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OK, so it's not Google flu, it's Google Flu Trends - a tool that estimates levels of flu within a country based on search activity. Google Flu Trends is now available in an additional 16 countries.
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by Stephen Withers
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Hang onto your hats: October's Patch Tuesday looks like a doozy, with 13 bulletins - mostly critical - covering a wider than usual range of products.
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by Stan Beer
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Enterprises
globally are expected to adopt cloud solutions en masse in the next 12
months, according to a new study published in a whitepaper by search
leader Google. CRM, however, will not be the major driving application.
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by James Riley
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Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has unveiled Gershon-inspired government purchasing arrangements for desktop computers and communications services that could save more than $250 million over five years.
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by Peter Dinham
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Spending on ICT by companies around the world, including in Australia, has dropped significantly, with nearly half of 407 enterprises recently surveyed indicating they are reducing their overall spend this year, but maintaining the amount of money they allocate to security.
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by James Riley
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The Internet Industry Association wrote to copyright owners more than two years ago seeking to address piracy concerns, only to be told the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft would instead start taking service providers to court.
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by Jake Widman
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VMware has announced that version 3 of its Fusion virtualization software, which enables Macs to run Windows, will support "the ultimate Windows 7 experience." It also has a changed interface that makes Windows programs appear more like Mac ones.
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by Stephen Withers
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A change of heart by US mobile carrier AT&T has cleared the way for VoIP over mobile data apps for the iPhone. The change is set to flow on to other countries.
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by Beverley Head
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More than 800 developer partners – 20 of which are Australian - have signed up for the APIs which will provide them with access to PayPal’s payments platform, ahead of the official release in San Francisco next month, heralding a blizzard of new online payments applications.
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by James Riley
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Microsoft is to be queried by a parliamentary committee investigating cyber-crime over an embarrassing phishing attack on its Hotmail service that allowed unauthorised access to the personal details of up to 10,000 email users.
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by James Riley
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Australian government 2.0 advocates from the OpenAustralia.org initiative have been invited to attend the eDemocracy Summit 2009 UnConference in Berlin next week to swap ideas on open access information.
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by Beverley Head
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A survey of Asia Pacific enterprises has found that Web 2.0 tools are becoming increasingly commonplace, with business people rather than technology leaders driving demand, and only one in ten enterprises reporting no plans to travel the Web 2.0 route.
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by Stephen Withers
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Amazon is expanding the availability of its Kindle e-book device to more than 100 countries, including Australia. Hundreds of thousands of titles are offered, mostly at prices below the print editions.
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by Stephen Withers
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Three of Victoria's universities have announced their plan for a shared, energy-efficient data centre. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Fujitsu Australia.
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