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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009 |
Enterprise
management software vendor CA has axed 31 staff at its Melbourne
security R&D Lab in what it is calling a restructuring move.
Melbourne is one of CA's largest centres for international R&D
outside of the US and the move amounts to a downsizing of about 20%.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 |
A low priced mobile handset capable of running multiple operating
systems in virtual windows and with similar features of much higher
priced smart phones is about to hit the market. The handset will run
Linux and at least one other OS on top of the OKL4 hypervisor from Open
Kernel Labs.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
Ten years ago a young Australian Internet pioneer showed the world how it could surf the web for free. Now Sydney Low, co-founder of one-time free ISP FreeOnline and its affiliated Internet technology company Sharinga Networks, is back in the game. However, this time he's playing in the mobile phone space with a new company called RedTxt.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 20 March 2009 |
Anti-censorship site Wikileaks has threatened Australian Communications
Minister Senator Stephen Conroy with criminal prosecution if he
attempts to discover the source of its leaked Australian Internet
blacklist. Wikileaks says that under Swedish law it is a criminal
offence to try to breach confidentiality agreements between the press
and sources.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 20 March 2009 |
I don't know about you but I'm old enough to remember a time when
classic works of fiction such as D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
were banned from publication. After the permissive era of the late
1960s and 1970s, I never thought I would see those days return. I was
wrong.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 |
A new web-based telephony application is being touted by its developer
as a soon to be released VoIP application on the iPhone App Store. The application has already been submitted and is awaiting approval according to the developer.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 |
Computer hardware giant IBM is seeking to clear out from its rival
server makers by acquiring the fast declining Sun Microsystems for
about double its present market value. Sun is currently the number four
server player, while IBM holds a narrow lead at the top over rival
hardware monolith HP.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 |
Discovery
Communications, the owner of the popular Discovery Channel, has filed a
patent infringement suit against web titan Amazon.com alleging
infringement of a patent for electronic book technology. The suit names
the Kindle and Kindle 2 e-book readers and Amazon's e-book delivery
system and seeks damages and royalty payments for continued use of the
technology.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009 |
Claiming
that the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper had misled Australians in a
report on Monday that claimed millions of plasma and LCD televisions
would become obsolete from 1 May, 2009 due to changes in the way
broadcasters transmit, a seething free-to-air TV broadcasters' body
Freeview has issued a statement to sooth the frayed nerves of consumers.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 |
Despite large
volumes of rhetoric Australian IT managers are doing a woeful job of
implementing Green IT policies, according to a new report. To make
matters worse, the vast majority of senior IT executives are not even
in the early stages of formulating, let alone implementing a Green IT
policy.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 |
There has
been a surge in Linux acquisition as a result of the global recession,
according to a new market survey. According to a new whitepaper, more
than half of IT executives are planning to fast track Linux adoption in
2009.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 |
Primus
Telecommunications Group, the US holding company of Primus Telecom
Australia has filed for Chapter 11 protection to reduce interest rate
payments to creditors on debts totalling US$650 million (about AUD$1
billion). The consensual Chapter 11 filing with creditors will see the
debts reduced to US$315 million.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009 |
The departure of Sol Trujillo from Telstra will pave the way for
structural separation of the carrier and the NBN is dead in the water
says the Australian boss of Telecom NZ's giant services subsidiary
Gen-i. What's more, regulation will continue to play a big role in the
newly separated Telstra.
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