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Internode upgrades capital city bandwidth links

Internode upgrades capital city bandwidth links

Internode is quadrupling the capacity of its bandwidth linking Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide up to multiple 10Gb/s links.
Staff Writers Jan 14 2009 10:25AM Telco/ISP
Sophos secures government tender

Sophos secures government tender

The ACT Government ICT provider InTACT has selected Sophos Endpoint Security and Control from last year’s government endpoint security open tender.
Staff Writers Jan 13 2009 3:26PM Security
ACT government retains Sophos

ACT government retains Sophos

The ACT government’s shared ICT services organisation, InTACT, has renewed its agreement with Sophos to supply endpoint security and control software across 27,000 desktops, laptops and file servers.
Staff Writers Jan 13 2009 3:06PM Software
ACMA takes alleged SMS spammers to court

ACMA takes alleged SMS spammers to court

In a local first, the Australian Communications and Media Authority said it has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court in Brisbane against several companies over unsolicited SMS spam.
Staff Writers Jan 13 2009 3:06PM Telco/ISP
Wipro, Megasoft implicated in World Bank procurement scandal

Wipro, Megasoft implicated in World Bank procurement scandal

Two more Indian firms have been barred from doing business with the World Bank, less than a month after details of Satyam’s eight-year ban were revealed.
Staff Writers Jan 13 2009 3:04PM Financial Services
AMD supercomputer drives HD content to mobiles

AMD supercomputer drives HD content to mobiles

AMD has teamed with content developer OTOY to build a supercomputer that will make it possible to port high-definition content wirelessly to mobile devices.
Staff Writers Jan 12 2009 3:37PM Hardware
Hackers hijack Apple speech with prank announcements

Hackers hijack Apple speech with prank announcements

Hackers have made a spoof announcement that Apple chairman Steve Jobs has died.
Staff Writers Jan 12 2009 3:26PM Security
LTE plans brought forward despite downturn

LTE plans brought forward despite downturn

More than eighteen operators globally have announced LTE deployment plans with most set to launch in the 2011 or 2012 timeframe, according to ABI Research.
Staff Writers Jan 12 2009 2:59PM Telco/ISP
Telstra customers pay for local presence plan

Telstra customers pay for local presence plan

Telstra has opened for public comment its latest regional and rural presence plan but said customers would wear the cost of it preparing the ‘unnecessary’ document.
Staff Writers Jan 9 2009 12:21PM Telco/ISP
IEEE forges ahead with BPL draft standard

IEEE forges ahead with BPL draft standard

Broadband Over Powerline (BPL) has moved a step closer with the IEEE P1901 working group approving the baseline for a draft standard.
Staff Writers Jan 9 2009 12:20PM Telco/ISP
Telstra takes aim at NBN winner despite lost billions

Telstra takes aim at NBN winner despite lost billions

Telstra has claimed that between $1 and $2 billion in annual revenues may be at risk after its exclusion from the NBN process but that it is already in a ‘good competitive position’ to take on the successful bidder.
Staff Writers Jan 8 2009 5:14PM Telco/ISP
DotNetNuke pans SourceForge in CodePlex switch

DotNetNuke pans SourceForge in CodePlex switch

DotNetNuke has swapped its core product distribution from SourceForge to the Microsoft-backed CodePlex allegedly for more responsive and ad-free promotion of its open source web development framework.
Staff Writers Jan 8 2009 1:45PM Software
Unionised Telstra workers to strike this weekend

Unionised Telstra workers to strike this weekend

The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union have confirmed speculation by announcing a ban on ‘overtime, recalls and call backs’ for unionised Telstra workers this weekend.
Staff Writers Jan 7 2009 3:22PM Telco/ISP
Thumbs-down for vendor trips and smartphone upgrades

Thumbs-down for vendor trips and smartphone upgrades

CIOs should turn the tables on vendors in 2009 by ‘politely declining’ vendor courtesy trips and instead inviting them to a free lunch at a chain restaurant to discuss cost optimisation, according to Gartner.
Staff Writers Jan 7 2009 2:11PM Hardware
Fortinet offers free recovery tool for SMS attack

Fortinet offers free recovery tool for SMS attack

UTM vendor Fortinet has released a free software application to help users recover from the recently discovered ‘Curse of Silence’ or ‘CurseSMS’ mobile attack.
Staff Writers Jan 7 2009 2:04PM Security
ATO warning on refund email scam

ATO warning on refund email scam

The Australian Taxation Office has warned Australians to immediately delete a scam email that claims to offer a tax refund but asks for their credit card details.
Staff Writers Jan 7 2009 1:59PM Security
EMX reaches $10,000 SMS spam settlement with ACMA

EMX reaches $10,000 SMS spam settlement with ACMA

A small Sydney-based firm will pay a $10,000 ‘settlement’ to the Australian Communications and Media Authority for allegedly spamming numbers it had rented as a list from a commercial brokerage.
Staff Writers Jan 6 2009 12:18PM Telco/ISP
100GbE customer surge predicted within two years

100GbE customer surge predicted within two years

100 Gigabit Ethernet technologies will outship OC-768 in just two years with growth driven largely by customers rather than carriers, according to Freesky Research.
Staff Writers Jan 6 2009 12:17PM Telco/ISP
Avaya supports Women’s World Cup

Avaya supports Women’s World Cup
Staff Writers Jan 4 2009 7:28AM Strategy
Telstra ramps mobile network for New Year parties

Telstra ramps mobile network for New Year parties

Telstra claims to have boosted its mobile network capacity to cope with a predicted 76 million text messages to be sent as part of New Year festivities.
Staff Writers Dec 30 2008 10:26PM Telco/ISP

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