EDITOR'S NOTE

New South Wales schools and hospitals are upgrading this week, with 65,000 'imaging' devices (or printers and fax machines, as we like to call them) heading to NSW schools, and networking and unified comms heading to two research centres in NSW hospitals.

Overseas, Scott Cleland has caused a stir by accusing Google of using 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for. But can Cleland be trusted? And Yahoo! says its Build Your Own Search service is going better than expected. But who expected it to do well?

-- Kathryn Small

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Staff writers | December 09, 2008

Optus has won a four-year extension to its whole-of-business telecommunications services contract with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship in a deal that could net the telco around $143 million in revenues.

By Staff writers | December 09, 2008

The NSW Department of Education and Training has started a major technology refresh that will see up to 65,000 'imaging' devices statewide replaced with new multi function devices (MFDs), laser and inkjet printers and fax machines.

By Staff writers | December 09, 2008

Northern Sydney Central Coast Health (NSCCH) has awarded HP a $1.15m networking contract, while Prince of Wales (PoW) has chosen Siemens OpenScape UC server to transition to IP communications.

By Nick Farrell | December 09, 2008

Google has fought back at an accusation that it's an Internet bandwidth hog.

By Nick Farrell | December 09, 2008

After months of dropping off of Australians' shopping lists, the iPod is apparently back.

By Shaun Nichols | December 09, 2008

Yahoo is touting the early success of its Build Your Own Search (BOSS) search service.

By Phil Muncaster | December 09, 2008

Nearly a quarter of web applications have critical security issues or vulnerabilities, according to a new report by consultancy Corsaire, which based its findings on security assessments from the past six years.

By Daniel Robinson | December 09, 2008

Details have emerged of a future 32nm Intel chip for netbook-style devices that will merge the processor and chipset into a system-on-a-chip (SoC) component.

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