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In pictures: Hundreds protest proposed internet filters 
Telco/ISP
In pictures: Hundreds protest proposed internet filters
Dec 15, 2008 | Comment Now 
Waving banners and shouting "shame", hundreds of people gathered in cities around Australia to protest against Senator Conroy's proposed internet filters.
 
Hundreds protest net filtering on Conroy’s new blog 
Telco/ISP
Hundreds protest net filtering on Conroy’s new blog
Dec 10, 2008 | Comment Now 
Just 24 hours since its launch, hundreds of people have used Senator Conroy's new blog as a place to protest against his proposed net filtering scheme.
 
40,000 servers, 20% of the world's traffic: Akamai ten years on 
Telco/ISP
40,000 servers, 20% of the world's traffic: Akamai ten years on
Dec 2, 2008 | Comment Now 
Ten years since its creation, distributed computing platform Akamai now delivers 20 per cent of the world’s internet traffic by request. iTnews talks to Stuart Spiteri about ...
 
Secrets of the underground economy 
Finance
Secrets of the underground economy
Dec 1, 2008 | Comment Now 
In IRC channels and web-based forums, the underground economy is thriving, according to the latest year-long report by Symantec. Find out how much a botnet or a set of credit ...
 
Despite reports, Telstra and Second Life remain inseparable 
Software
Despite reports, Telstra and Second Life remain inseparable
Nov 28, 2008 | Comment Now 
It’s a match made in heaven: Telstra is Australia’s biggest telco and ISP, while Second Life is one of the world’s hottest social networking tools. So when the media reported ...
 
Net filters debated by experts at cyberlaw forum 
Telco/ISP
Net filters debated by experts at cyberlaw forum
Nov 28, 2008 | Comment Now 
One catchphrase was repeated over and over throughout the Internet Filtering and Censorship Forum yesterday: “The internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it.”
 
Can Quark XPress win back customers? 
Software
Can Quark XPress win back customers?
Nov 25, 2008 | Comment Now 
Can Quark XPress claw its way back into the desktop publishing space? iTnews talks to Alex Nemeth, regional business director A/NZ, about Quark XPress 8 – and why users should ...
 
SAP launches software packages for economic downturn 
Software
SAP launches software packages for economic downturn
Nov 24, 2008 | Comment Now 
Global software giant SAP has responded to the economic downturn by creating software bundles designed to cope with difficult times.
 
Week in review: net filters, NBN, CEOs, security and hardware 
Hardware
Week in review: net filters, NBN, CEOs, security and hardware
Nov 22, 2008 | Comment Now 
It's been a busy week in the Australian tech industry. Both the NBN and net filters are due to happen in weeks, so companies and government departments are scrambling on all ...
 
Key management is crucial to cloud computing: Dunkelberger 
Security
Key management is crucial to cloud computing: Dunkelberger
Nov 21, 2008 | Comment Now 
Key management and cross-application encryption will be the next big thing, according to new research by the Ponemon Institute commissioned by PGP Corporation.
 
Aussie SaaS offering helps small businesses with people management 
Software
Aussie SaaS offering helps small businesses with people management
Nov 21, 2008 | Comment Now 
Workforce Guardian is an SaaS offering that manages employee relations. iTnews looks at how the Aussie start-up jumped into the SaaS world.
 
Blacklists, whitelists and heuristics: Symantec describes new threats 
Security
Blacklists, whitelists and heuristics: Symantec describes new threats
Nov 20, 2008 | Comment Now 
iTnews talks to Vincent Weafer, VP Security Response, Symantec, about how server-side polymorphism is changing the security landscape.
 
1000 people, police, queue up for Wrath of the Lich King launch 
Software
1000 people, police, queue up for Wrath of the Lich King launch
Nov 14, 2008 | Comment Now 
So many people turned up to last night’s Sydney launch of Wrath of the Lich King that the police arrived to ask organisers to turn the music down.
 
Betrayal at Telstra: CEPU starts recruiting for Terria 
Telco/ISP
Betrayal at Telstra: CEPU starts recruiting for Terria
Nov 14, 2008 | Comment Now 
According to an internal memo leaked to iTnews, the CEPU – the union representing many Telstra staff – will start recruiting staff for the Optus-led Terria consortium, and ...
 
Attacks at 40Gb/s: Arbor talks about ISP-level security 
Security
Attacks at 40Gb/s: Arbor talks about ISP-level security
Nov 13, 2008 | Comment Now 
iTnews interviewed Nick Race, Australian Manager of Arbor Networks, about the size and strength of new malicious attacks, Australian vulnerability, and how inter-ISP networks ...
 
HP shows off US$350,000 Halo video conferencing room 
Hardware
HP shows off US$350,000 Halo video conferencing room
Nov 11, 2008 | Comment Now 
HP demonstrated its US$350,000 Halo room, located in the company’s Rhodes office, that integrates audio, video and software in an end-to-end package for large enterprise ...
 
Unified Comms experts talk about ROI, Google, govt and philosophy 
Software
Unified Comms experts talk about ROI, Google, govt and philosophy
Nov 10, 2008 | Comment Now 
At the Frost & Sullivan ICT Roundtable, representatives from five major unified communications (UC) firms talked about demonstrating ROI to potential clients, the philosophy ...
 
Simplified UC tools will dominate market in 2009: analyst 
Software
Simplified UC tools will dominate market in 2009: analyst
Nov 7, 2008 | Comment Now 
Unified communications (UC)-as-a-service was the future of the UC industry, an analyst told guests at yesterday’s Frost & Sullivan ICT Roundtables.
 
VeriSign boasts secure authentication in the cloud 
Security
VeriSign boasts secure authentication in the cloud
Nov 6, 2008 | Comment Now 
VeriSign today announced strong growth for its VIP identity protection service, including the imminent launch of DocLocker, an online document storage system.
 
Sensis concedes Australian web search to Google 
Software
Sensis concedes Australian web search to Google
Nov 3, 2008 | Comment Now 
Sensis and Google today announced a commercial partnership to provide local searches through Google, and place Yellow business listings on Google Maps.
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