Windows Live to be default email service for BigPond customers

Telstra is moving BigPond customers onto a Windows Live email service while retaining their existing email addresses. Customers will also receive other Windows Live services.
 

Akamai's Blaze acquisition garners front-end optimisation technology

Content delivery specialist Akamai has acquired Blaze Software, which has technology to optimise web page rendering.
 

UXC Connect secures $8 million worth of contracts

Australian ICT infrastructure solutions and services company, UXC Connect, has secured four contracts to the value of $8 million to provide its campsite entertainment solution to thousands of workers located in four remote mining camps across the Pilbara in Western Australia.
 

Ingenyes ramps up web server offerings

Low-cost web hosting service Ingenyes has beefed up its product catalog with the addition of an inexpensive e-commerce system and more.
 

Major web security camera vulnerability

The mantra has always been "build it and they will come."  But too often it's translated to "build it with vulnerabilities and hope they won't notice." When it comes to TrendNet's web-capable cameras, unfortunately, the world has noticed.  
 

Using business logic as a hacking vector

Imperva's latest analysis of the hacking landscape shows that the bad guys know as much about your business as you do.
 

Aussie Scoopon beats internationals at their own game

Aussie-owned and operated group buying company, Scoopon, has for the second year running outperformed multinational players LivingSocial and Groupon, to retain overall leadership in the Australian group buying market.
 

Possible responses to Optus TV Now case threaten our rights

Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, is reportedly foreshadowing changes in the legislation to stop Optus offering its TV Now service, following the company's court win last week. Any changes are likely to whittle away at the exemption we currently enjoy to time-shift programs.
 

St George website off air:UPDATED

St George Bank’s website reappeared on Monday evening after prolonged "technical issues” – although it remained possible while the web site was off air to log on and use the online banking and business banking services suggesting that the core banking systems (the Hogan platform supplied by CSC) weren’t affected.
 

SBDC Releases Native IPv6 for all it Broadband Users

Smelly Black Dog Internet is proud to announce that the company has signed up for Simtronic Technologies new wholesale broadband service as an early adopter, and by doing so has access to the Simtronic IPv6 Transit. Colleen Scafe (Director of Smelly Black Dog) states that the company chose Simtronic Technologies over other providers, as Simtronic Technologies is a technologically progressive company and shares the same goals as Smelly Black Dog. Smelly Black Dog Internet now provides IPv6 access for not only business but for all broadband users in all parts of Australia. This means that for all Australians that native IPv6 connectivity is now more accessible than ever before.