EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

There haven't been many longer running court battles as that of Telstra and Optus over the alleged misuse of confidential traffic data in the 90s.

Optus had alleged that information gleaned from calls originating and terminating on the Telstra Wholesale network had been used within the incumbent to create marketing and promotion attacks against it.

The Court ruled in Optus' favour late Thursday. The only thing that remains is for Optus to establish the extent of the breach of its access agreement with Telstra to determine damages.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Staff writers | May 02, 2009

The Federal Court has ruled in favour of Optus in a long-running dispute with Telstra, finding the incumbent misused Optus traffic information to set its own marketing, promotion and sales strategies in the 1990s.

By David Neal | May 02, 2009

Researchers from the University of California and Microsoft have demonstrated a new USB device that will let the user perform basic computing tasks even while their machine is in energy-saving sleep mode.

By Ian Williams | May 02, 2009

Toshiba and Fujitsu have wrapped up a deal which will see Fujitsu's entire hard disk drive (HDD) business transferred to Toshiba.

By Staff Writers | May 01, 2009

Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson has posted a 49 per cent drop in first-quarter core profit, hurt by a slumping global mobile phone market and some cutbacks in investments by operators.

By Iain Thomson | May 01, 2009

Analysts are forecasting that Intel, if found guilty of anti-competitive practices by the EU, could face the largest fine in European history.

By Shaun Nichols | May 01, 2009

Apple has claimed an important award for customer satisfaction.

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