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Telecommunications
Soft landing on broadband competition? Dream on, says Telstra
By
Ry Crozier
| December 01, 2008
Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie has accused some of the telco's rivals of wanting a 'feather bed' from the government when it comes to helping them compete in the market.
Security
Secrets of the underground economy
By
Kathryn Small
| December 01, 2008
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 card details would cost you.
Telecommunications
Conroy to bidders: make the case for intervention
By
Staff writers
| December 01, 2008
The NBN expert panel will judge whether any of the proposals make a 'compelling case' for regulations to prevent network overbuild by Telstra or to require a full switchover of Telstra's copper to the NBN, Broadband minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday.
Hardware
Microsoft graphics-on-CPU is warped
By
Dean Pullen
| December 01, 2008
The next version of Microsoft's core desktop operating system, imaginatively named Windows 7, aka Vista SP2, may contain an interesting feature for devices with low-end graphics chipsets, or even with no GPU acceleration at all.
Security
SMEs urged to manage staff internet use
By
| December 01, 2008
Many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are ignoring policies to manage non-essential, personal use of the internet at work as they move toward hosted and cloud computing applications.
Business
ACS wants Gershon savings put into ICT pilots
By
Staff writers
| December 01, 2008
Part of the $400m in yearly savings that the government is expected to get by implementing all of the Gershon report's recommendations should be put back into ICT pilot projects, according to the Australian Computer Society.
Business
Microsoft-Yahoo deal 'total fiction': AllThingsDigital
By
Staff Writers
| December 01, 2008
A report in the Sunday Times that Microsoft is in talks with Yahoo to buy the U.S internet company's online search business for $20 billion is "total fiction," according to a key executive cited by an influential U.S. blog.
Software
Marshal8e6's new software locks down Microsoft Exchange
By
Staff writers
| December 01, 2008
Marshal8e6 promises to secure all Internet-based communication streams in the workplace with an internal filtering solution for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007.
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