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by Peter Dinham
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Seven students from across Australia have won a national, ACS Foundation-sponsored competition hosted on YouTube, after being asked to create a short video on “what information technology means to them”.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australia continues to rank as one of the top ten countries worldwide to suffer online brand attacks, and while Colombia and France have dropped off the chart completely, New Zealand and Brazil have entered the list for the first time, according to a new report on worldwide fraud released today.
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by Peter Dinham
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Spam levels in Australia are going through the roof, increasing by two percent to 92.7 percent of all emails received by business, and higher than the global average.
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by Peter Dinham
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The global server market has endured a rocky road during the worldwide recession but there are now signs of the market stabilising, with virtualization forecast to be the cornerstone technology as medium and large enterprises accelerate the need for more dynamic and converged infrastructure designed to support the business needs of the next economic cycle.
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by Beverley Head
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Google has launched its Promoted Video service in Australia - essentially the equivalent of Google AdWords for YouTube videos. Mitsubishi has been trialling the service locally to market its new Outlander 4x4, and its advertising agency believes integrating video is the next logical evolution of search engine marketing.
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by Stephen Withers
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Changes in Snow Leopard broke all previous versions of NeoOffice, the Mac-friendly version of the OpenOffice.org open source office suite. Version 3.0.1 provides compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6, along with a couple of new features.
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by Stephen Withers
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Graphics improvements - including the ability to display Windows' Aero user interface - are among the changes delivered by Fusion 3, VMware's latest virtualisation product for Mac OS X.
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by Jake Widman
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After getting a look at the kind of jokes that would be in the Family Guy/Windows 7 special, Microsoft has decided to back out of its sole sponsorship deal. Fox still plans to air the show and is looking for a replacement sponsor.
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by Jake Widman
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A poll by U.S. shopping and reviews site Retrevo has shown that Apple may not be able to get its rumored price for a new tablet computer. Meanwhile, new reports and rumors indicate that Apple may be pursuing e-reader content for the device from American and Australian publishing partners.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australian IT professional services company, Datacom, has achieved the highest Green IT readiness rating yet achieved by any organisation in Australia in the RMIT University-Connection Research Green IT Readiness Index.
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by James Riley
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The Australian Bankers Association has rejected calls for bank customers to be given an explicit choice about whether personal information is processed offshore or in Australia, and said its members were already required get consent from customers about the handling of data when they signed up for services.
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by Stephen Withers
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Carl Icahn has quit from Yahoo!'s board of directors, and may have lost more than $US100 million on the company's shares. He became involved as a result of Microsoft's attempt to acquire Yahoo in 2008.
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by Stephen Withers
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A partnership between Adobe and Salesforce.com has brought Flash to the latter's Force.com applications platform.
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by Stephen Withers
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Netgear is bragging that its ProSecure UTM (unified threat management) appliances for SMEs outperformed similar devices from other vendors in third-party testing of their ability to block malware and spam.
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by Beverley Head
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More than 300 entrepreneurs, investors and tyre kickers turned out for the first Tech23 event in Sydney today, which was established to showcase local innovation and forge links between the money-men and the ideas-gurus.
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by Stephen Withers
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An international version of the BBC's iPlayer TV catchup service could be on the cards. Just don't expect access to the UK iPlayer from overseas, and do expect to open your wallet.
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