Sarah Falson

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Software

WebCentral email server crashes, offline for almost a week

Jun 21, 2007

SYDNEY - Australia’s largest web and application hosting company, WebCentral, has experienced major difficulties over the past week with the entire email network failing.

Telco/ISP

Text-based ads coming to a mobile phone near you

Jun 21, 2007

SYDNEY – Advertisements sent directly to your mobile phone could be upon us within 12 months if Australian telcos partner with Acision, a telecommunications innovation company ...

Finance

Company designs location-based advertising for SMEs

Jun 20, 2007

SYDNEY - Sydney-based advertising company, Local Vision, is promoting a range of new ‘location-based’ advertising solutions designed specifically for the SME market.

Telco/ISP

Coonan says FTTN won’t reach 98 per cent of Australians

Jun 20, 2007

AUSTRALIA - The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, has announced that Labor's plan to deliver fibre-to-the-node broadband ...

Storage

SNIA announces strategy to enlist vendors and channel partners

Jun 19, 2007

SYDNEY - Industry education group, the Storage Networking Industry, has made public a three-year strategic plan aimed at promoting storage networking and data management in ...

Software

Software development outsourcing rises in Australia

Jun 19, 2007

BALI - Australian-controlled software development company, Mitrais, will build a new headquarters in Bali to support “significant growth” in software development projects being ...

Telco/ISP

T4 says broadband debate crucial

Jun 18, 2007

SYDNEY - Australian-based industry group, Tell the Truth (T4) has announced its support for the Government’s expert panel on high speed fibre-to-the-node broadband.

Telco/ISP

Almost 100 per cent of Australians to receive broadband

Jun 18, 2007

SYDNEY - The Government will provide almost $1 billion of funding to build the infrastructure for 99 per cent of Australian’s to receive high speed broadband internet, ...

Hardware

Telstra/Thomson and PowerWave recall faulty chargers

Jun 15, 2007

SYDNEY - Two major consumer electronics companies are recalling faulty power-chargers after evidence was uncovered that they might be prone to electrical faults.

Telco/ISP

Australian online retail lagging

Jun 15, 2007

The local market still has a long way to go in the online retail-stakes.

Hardware

Seagate ships large areal density drive

Jun 14, 2007

SYDNEY – The foundation for Seagate’s one-terabyte enterprise-level external hard drive is finally being shipped to Australia two months after the hardware’s release.

Training & Development

Local council outsources staff training to IT company

Jun 14, 2007

SYDNEY – Fairfield City Council is the latest government body to outsource its staff training with PolicyPoint’s online policy education compliance platform.

Telco/ISP

Internode revises ADSL2+ plans for SOHO and SMB

Jun 13, 2007

SYDNEY: Internode has restructured its broadband plans for the first time in two years, offering business users more choice in a market that demands faster speeds at cheaper rates.

Telco/ISP

Engin nabs TiVo distribution and teams with Optus

Jun 12, 2007

SYDNEY – Australian VoIP-cum-broadband supplier, Engin, will be responsible for bringing the much talked-about TiVo PVR (personal video recorder) to Australia early next year.

Software

Business Objects guilty of ‘willful infringement’

Jun 8, 2007

SYDNEY - Claims made by Business Objects’ Australian managing director that Informatica has mislead its customers and the media regarding a patent infringement lawsuit between ...

Software

Linksys and Cisco join forces to crack SMB market

Jun 7, 2007

SYDNEY - Linksys and Cisco today revealed their new jointly-developed scalable voice and data solutions for the small business user, which represents the company’s first ...