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by Jake Widman
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Earlier this week, the Black Hat security conference saw a demonstration of a method of taking control of an iPhone through spurious SMS messages. Today, Apple patched the vulnerability
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by Jake Widman
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The critical vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, AIR, and Flash Player has been addressed with new security updates from Adobe.
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by David M Williams
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Hands up who loves Linus Torvalds? The count may be one down after Linux kernel hacker Alan Cox quit as TTY code base maintainer following stabbing public criticism from Torvalds.
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by James Riley
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Australian education and immigration authorities should dramatically increase local ICT graduate numbers to plug holes in the nation’s tech skills supply rather than relying on greater numbers of 457 short-stay visa holders, Monash University immigration expert Bob Birrell says.
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by David M Williams
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Poor Microsoft; after Windows Vista's disastrous reception the software giant has been working to regain credibility and give companies a reason to upgrade. While Windows 7 may turn out to be "the best Windows yet" a major poll shows 60% of corporations have no plans to roll it out.
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by James Riley
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The Australian competition watchdog has confirmed it will investigate the proposed Microsoft/Yahoo search partnership and its potential impact on local advertising and media markets.
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by David Heath
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eBay’s overnight filing with the SEC discloses a legal dispute between the Skype unit and the organisation from which Skype was purchased. Worst case? The entire Skype service could be terminated.
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by Sam Varghese
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The head of the CentOS GNU/Linux project has gone missing and other contributors to the project are sufficiently concerned to post an open letter to him on the project's website.
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by Sam Varghese
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The Debian GNU/Linux Project has announced that it will not be following a time-based system for freezes for its next release, Squeeze.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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That was quick – hackers have figured out how to provide a way to activate Windows 7 Ultimate edition through a leaked copy of a Lenovo Win 7 OEM edition. Hackers and pirates always seem to find a way to bust through copy protection – can Microsoft reverse the situation?
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by Peter Dinham
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There’s good news on the job front, with the dramatic decline in demand for Australian executives late last year coming to a halt and new forecasts of a rebound and recovery over coming months in the wider employment market.
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by Peter Dinham
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Indonesia is attracting more companies to use its outsourcing services, with the quality of its labour force, particularly IT graduates, underpinning the growth in services.
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by James Riley
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The Australian operations of Yahoo and Microsoft online – the unusually constructed joint-ventures Yahoo7 and Ninemsn – are not yet sure how the 10-year search and advertising deal involving the Bing search engine will play out in the local market.
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by Stephen Withers
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The latest version of Kerio WinRoute Firewall provides an optional feature to block access to any web page that has not been analysed and categorised.
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by Stephen Withers
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A new series of NAS devices from Seagate is squarely aimed at small businesses.
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by Stuart Corner
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Comments by Optus on the findings of its 2009 IP Index survey suggest it could be planning to follow parent SingTel which recently launched a software as a service offering in Singapore based, according to Optus, on Google Apps.
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by James Riley
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US-based security specialist McAfee has issued a public apology for a serious privacy breach in which the company sent personal contact details of more than 1,400 security professionals as an attachment to a bulk email.
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by Stuart Corner
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Optus has released the IP Index, its annual survey of corporate use of all forms of IP communications. It shows the iPhone, developed primarily as a consumer device, making very strong headway in enterprises against more established technologies.
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