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by Peter Dinham
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Australia’s malware infection rate is significantly lower than the worldwide average, with estimates by Microsoft that 3.9 systems in Australia are infected for every one thousand systems on which the company’s malicious software removal tool is executed, compared to the worldwide average of 8.7 systems per one thousand executed, or more than double Australia’s infection rate.
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by Beverley Head
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Spending on information technology will rise by 2.6 per cent next year – but half of all CIOs should expect their IT budgets to stay the same or even contract next year before a slow improvement in 2011 according to industry analyst Gartner.
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by Beverley Head
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Telstra CEO David Thodey does not believe telcos can make money out of providing ICT services and spelled out clearly today that “We will never become an IT services company.”
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by Stephen Withers
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Is your Excel spreadsheet recalculating too slowly? Maybe the answer is to move it to a cluster. If Excel isn't your bag, Microsoft has other HPC tricks up its sleeve.
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by David Heath
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A SQL injection vulnerability left the Yahoo! jobs site open to attack for an unknown length of time.
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by Jake Widman
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A California court has rendered summary judgments in favor of Apple and against Mac clonemaker Psystar on several counts of copyright infringement. Several issues remain to be tried, though, and the ruling did not address damages.
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by David Heath
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Today’s release of the list of the top 500 supercomputers shows that well over 90% are running Linux. Also, IBM’s Roadrunner has finally been dethroned; in a big way!
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by James Riley
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The agency responsible for processing 25 million international passengers annually through airports lacked an up-to-date disaster recovery plan and did not adequately track ICT-related problems, an Australian National Audit Office report has found.
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by Beverley Head
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IP communications supplier Interactive Intelligence has edged out six other vendors to secure a 25 seat call management deal from Macquarie Telecom that it believes could eventually grow to a 500 seat deal.
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by James Riley
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The Commonwealth has tipped $26 million into a new supercomputer project at the Australian National University that could ultimately be used to crank through the massive volumes of data generated by the Square Kilometre Array project.
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by James Riley
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Technology industry veteran Bruce Lakin has been appointed as the Australian Computer Society’s new chief executive and nominated the National Broadband Network, digital economy issues and skills development as priorities in the new role.
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by David Heath
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Increasing raw throughput over its predecessor by a factor of ten, the new Sun Constellation supercomputer was officially launched today.
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by David M Williams
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Australian hosted recruitment software provider, RecruitAdvantage, is presently facing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its online TurboRecruit product. The company has taken parts of its sites offline, affecting customers and jobseekers nationwide.
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by David Swan
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Industry leader Google is set to turn the desktop OS war on its head, with
several sources tipping that the company's new Chrome OS is about to make its debut later
this week.
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by David Heath
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Sophos' Graham Cluley is amazed at the reception given to the iPhone worm creator. Others have offered a mix of jobs and death threats.
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by Stuart Corner
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The tradition of purchasing artificial poppies on Armistice Day (11 November) goes back to the 1920s. Today, Armistice Day poppies have gone virtual.
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