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by Stephen Withers
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Free software from Finjan helps protect against the delivery of malware via shortened URLs in Twitter and other messages. SecureTweets uses the company's real-time content inspection system.
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by Stephen Withers
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Network security vendor Fortinet is going public. The company has registered its intended IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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by Peter Dinham
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The use of automated phishing toolkits continues unabated, with the number of phishing URLs generated using the toolkits soaring to 63 percent in July, an increase of 150 percent.
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by Peter Dinham
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Golfers wanting to book a round of golf at courses around Australia can now do it online with a new service launched today by Golf Australia and iseekgolf.com.
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by Stephen Withers
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The tr.im URL shortener is being shut down in the face of ongoing costs and the absence of monetisation opportunities.
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by David M Williams
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Want to live in the cloud but don’t quite trust it? SourceForge's open source project of the month for August may be for you! eyeos is a self-hosted cloud operating environment for business, schools and home built in PHP.
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by Peter Dinham
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On-demand, remote-connectivity solutions vendor, LogMeIn, has reported an increase in revenues of 58% to US$18 million for the second quarter of this year compared to the same quarter in 2008.
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by Peter Dinham
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PC microprocessor shipments are up around the world, with the increase driven more by Intel and OEM inventory refreshes, rather than the return of significant end-demand for PCs.
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by Beverley Head
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Mallesons is the latest of Australia’s top tier law firms to announce a redundancy programme, seeking headcount reduction of around 100 people as a result of the economic slowdown - but a switch to virtualisation and deep vendor discounts have spared the IT group from having to make cuts.
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by Stuart Corner
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Microsoft is to sell digital marketing agency, Razorfish to France based global advertising and PR company, Publicis Groupe, for $US530m in cash and shares, and the two companies will form a strategic alliance.
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by Davey Winder
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The founder of Twitter says that London is the City of Tweets. One London-born Twitter user and iTWire journalist begs to differ.
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by Beverley Head
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Researchers at IBM’s Australian Development Lab had long resisted virtualisation, arguing it would prove too slow for their purposes. But when management virtualised the Lab’s development servers by stealth, those same researchers didn’t even notice, only learning of the change a fortnight ago.
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by James Riley
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The Commonwealth’s Government 2.0 Taskforce will announce within weeks application details for Web innovators seeking grants through the taskforce’ $2.45 million Project Fund.
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by Stephen Withers
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Hitachi has begun shipping a 2T 7200 rpm disk drive.
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by James Riley
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Government must publish salary and remuneration details for senior executives and board members of the NBN Company if the public is to have faith in the transparency of the $43 billion broadband project, Opposition communications spokesman Nick Minchin said.
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by Peter Dinham
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The hype surrounding cloud computing is seemingly more hype than substance at this stage, with potential adopters holding off because of confusion about its potential benefits.
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by Stephen Withers
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Australian iGoogle users can now add social gadgets to their pages.
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by David M Williams
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This is it, Windows 7 is now final. Today the first public release of Windows 7 has been made available to subscribers of Microsoft’s TechNet and MSDN programs. An astounding 893 different images are being made available over three release waves from August 6th to 21st.
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