EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

The ACCC's Graeme Samuel gave a wide-ranging talk at the ATUG regional conference yesterday.

Those seeking structural separation of Telstra would no doubt have been buoyed by his comments that functional separation might be ineffective in achieving equivalence because of the incumbent's vertical integration.

He also made a number of recommendations to ensure competition in the post-NBN world, which have been summarised in the piece.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | May 21, 2009

ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel has given the Federal Government's National Broadband Network plan a big thumbs up, endorsing structural separation and predicting the end of Foxtel's dominance of Pay TV.

By Anupreeta Das | May 22, 2009

Dealmaking is very much in the cards for IBM, Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge said on Tuesday, after the company recently lost an opportunity to buy Sun Microsystems to Oracle.

By Martin Courtney | May 22, 2009

Cobol has long been written off as old hat, but many CIOs at large UK organisations have little choice but to carry on employing Cobol developers to maintain and enhance legacy applications that support their core business processes

By Shaun Nichols | May 22, 2009

Security researchers have warned of an unpatched vulnerability in certain JavaScript components for Mac OS X.

By Ry Crozier | May 22, 2009

Programmers of Yoda translation sites across the Web are preparing for sharp traffic spikes to coincide with "International Talk Like Yoda" day today.

By Staff writers | May 22, 2009

Small businesses are flocking to remote working with at least 60 per cent doing it "regularly" and 35 per cent "at least three times a week", according to two local surveys.

By David Neal | May 22, 2009

Adobe is to ape the security practices of other technology companies by issuing regular patch updates to Adobe Reader and Acrobat.

By Tarmo Virki, | May 22, 2009

Opera Software ASA chief executive Jon von Tetzchner hopes the Norwegian firm, known for its mobile browser, will stay independent despite major industry players increasing focus on the sector.

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