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by Stuart Corner
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The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) has unveiled its History of the Australian Web Project that aims to create a permanent and public record of the major trends of the Australian Internet since 2001.
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by Stuart Corner
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Telstra has announced that it will offer the new HTC Snap Windows Mobile based smartphone from 11 August, exclusively until November. It comes with a Telstra Blue Tick meaning it is recommended for handheld use in rural coverage areas.
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by James Riley
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The Australian Government’s information systems support agency for the law enforcement community - CrimTrac - has awarded a three-year, ground-up IT overhaul contract understood to be worth more than $10 million to UK-based services outfit Logica.
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by Stuart Corner
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The announcement by Woolworths to become an MVNO and sell prepaid mobile services in its 700 Woolworths, Big W and Dick Smiths retail stores is likely to dramatically change the mobile landscape in Australia. Woolworths is by far the largest and best known non-telco brand to enter the market.
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by Peter Dinham
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The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) has unveiled its new History of the Australian Web Project, revealing that the youth-oriented social networking website, Bebo.com, has had a significant impact on Australian use of the Internet over the past nine years, and that Internet usage overall grew even faster than penetration.
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by Peter Dinham
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Hewlett-Packard has given grants totaling over $470,000 to three Australian secondary schools as part of its Innovations in Education program this year.
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by Stephen Withers
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Teradata claims the latest release of its software has nearly 100 new features and delivers significant performance improvement.
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by James Riley
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Industry Minister Kim Carr has announced $2.4 million in grants to 38 companies through the Howard government-initiated Commercialising Emerging Technologies (COMET) program, including funding to 13 firms in the ICT sector.
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by Stuart Corner
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Huawei claims to have recorded the fastest downlink speeds on a HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access) commercial network of 18.2Mbps, yet Telstra claims a world record 21Mbps. So what's the story?
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by Stephen Withers
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earthwave has become the first Australian managed security provider to receive the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Attestation of Compliance.
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by Sam Varghese
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The leader of the CentOS GNU/Linux project, Lance Davis, who had gone missing for a while and caused other developers on the team some angst, has reappeared and held a meeting with them, according to a notice on the project website.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australian web hosting and domain name registrar, MelbourneIT, has snared a contract to manage the domain name portfolio for popular social networking site, Twitter.
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by James Riley
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The third incarnation of Kate Lundy’s grand Public Sphere policy 2.0 event will plumb the community for ideas and initiatives that will drive growth in the Australian ICT and creative industries sector.
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by Stephen Withers
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The 2010 versions of Symantec's Norton consumer security products have been designed to tackle a technique that's been used to get malware onto large numbers of computers.
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by Stuart Corner
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Gotalk is to outsource routing of all its overseas voice traffic to Tata Communications which will install an international gateway switch in Sydney to handle the Gotalk traffic.
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by Stuart Corner
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iTWire speculated last week that Optus could get into the business of offering applications to business customers under a SaaS model, and now Ovum has flagged this as growth market for telcos, saying that having a single ICT provider is on the majority of SMEs' wish-lists.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wireless network operators surprised by the rapid update of wireless broadband services and smartphones are struggling to upgrade networks to enable them to meet these new demands and are having to rethink their network evolution strategies.
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by Stuart Corner
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Telstra is claiming two "world records" announcing the successful completion of trials of Nortel's 40Gbps and 100Gbps dense wavelength division multiplexing technology over world record distances in its long haul fibre network, but it is already planning to use Ericsson 40Gbps DWDM gear to carry commercial services between Sydney and Melbourne; gear that Ericsson claims will be upgradeable to 100Gbps as soon as the standard is finalised.
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