Tag: number

Networking

Government nixes bank account portability

By Liam Tung | Aug 22, 2011 | Comment Now

'Gold hammer' not fit for small nuts, Bernie Fraser finds.

Hardware

Queensland Police buys into number plate recognition

Apr 15, 2011 | Comment Now

First unit on the road for Easter.

Telco/ISP

ACMA regulates geographic numbers for VoIP

By Liz Tay | Jan 31, 2011 | Comment Now

Calls may be charged by number, not location.

Software

Losing bidders for Palm revealed

By David Neal | Jul 17, 2010 | Comment Now

Apple, RIM and Google all wanted a piece of the action, claims report.

Software

Twitter settles privacy case with the FTC

By Shaun Nichols | Jun 25, 2010 | Comment Now

Agrees to security guidelines, regular audits.

Strategy

Number of new offshore IT facilities plummets

By Tom Young | Nov 28, 2009 | Comment Now

Top 50 providers open 16 fewer sites this year.

Software

Twitter suspends retweet service

By David Neal | Nov 13, 2009 | Comment Now

Technical errors force plug to be pulled.

Software

Yahoo plans 42-acre campus in US

By Rosalie Marshall | Oct 31, 2009 | Comment Now

Web giant to spend its way out of the recession.

Security

Mozilla posts new Firefox update

By Shaun Nichols | Oct 29, 2009 | Comment Now

Addresses stability and security flaws.

Software

Corporates wary of General Public Licence terms

By Iain Thomson | Oct 8, 2009 | Comment Now

Companies want assurance against legal action.

Hardware

French Government investigates exploding iPods

By Iain Thomson | Aug 27, 2009 | Comment Now

Victims reportedly considering lawsuits.

Hardware

Tool aids recovery of stolen BlackBerry phones

By Daniel Robinson | Aug 19, 2009 | Comment Now

App uses GPS to track stolen devices.

Security

Web Hosting Talk payment system hack revealed

By Ry Crozier | Apr 9, 2009 | Comment Now

A hacker has dumped active credit card numbers of users of the popular Web Hosting Talk forums online less than 24 hours after the site restored the lion’s share of data ...

Training & Development

Number of UK IT work visas issued is booming

By Angelica Mari | Mar 11, 2009 | Comment Now

The number of UK work permits issued to foreign IT workers during the last year has increased three times since the peak of the dotcom boom, according to figures obtained by ...

Finance

PwC auditors accused of assisting Satyam fraud

By Rosalie Marshall | Feb 2, 2009 | Comment Now

Two PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) auditors stand accused of helping Satyam chairman Ramalinga Raju to inflate the company's profits by 50.4bn rupees (US$1 billion) in a scandal ...

Telco/ISP

ACMA proposes VoIP number management changes

Dec 19, 2008 | Comment Now

The Australian Communications and Media Authority could amend rules around the use of geographic numbers and numbering support for ‘VoIP Out’ services.

Software

Gartner reports slowdown in SOA adoption

By Phil Muncaster | Nov 5, 2008 | Comment Now

A growing number of firms are deferring or shelving plans for service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations because of a lack of skills and expertise, or because the ...

Hardware

Space Station fixes number one priority

By Iain Thomson | Jun 6, 2008 | Comment Now

The faulty toilet on the International Space Station has now been fixed, much to the relief of the astronauts onboard..

Security

Warning: Number one malicous threat for 2008, Web threats

By Negar Salek | Nov 23, 2007 | Comment Now

AVG’s global security strategist sounded his horn during his visit to Sydney this week warning Australians about the growth of web-based threats - the cybercriminal activity of ...