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Yahoo closing Geocities web hosting service

Yahoo closing Geocities web hosting service

Yahoo will close Geocities, the free web hosting service it paid US$4 billion (A$5.62 billion) for 10 years ago.
Rosalie Marshall Apr 25 2009 8:04AM Networking
Bluetooth 3.0 to be eight times faster

Bluetooth 3.0 to be eight times faster

The new Bluetooth specification launched this week will be eight times faster than its predecessor.
Robert Munro Apr 24 2009 2:07PM Networking
Primus admits to blackout at Melbourne data centre

Primus admits to blackout at Melbourne data centre

Primus Telecom has admitted to a power outage in part of its Melbourne data centre Saturday, citing the “bad luck” of being between phases of a multi-million dollar upgrade to its power systems as a contributor to the issue.
Ry Crozier Apr 20 2009 4:46PM Networking
No outage in data centre, says Primus

No outage in data centre, says Primus

Primus Telecom has this morning angrily denied suggestions that its Melbourne data centre went down for up to eight hours on Saturday afternoon.
Ry Crozier Apr 20 2009 11:49AM Networking
Silver Spring rides into Melbourne for smart grid rollout

Silver Spring rides into Melbourne for smart grid rollout

Victorian power utilities UED and Jemena have selected US smart grid networking company Silver Spring Networks to roll out smart meters to over a million Victorian homes.
Staff Writers Apr 20 2009 6:13AM Networking
Alcatel-Lucent revamps OmniSwitch network OS

Alcatel-Lucent revamps OmniSwitch network OS

Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a new operating system for its OmniSwitch family of local area network switches.
Ian Williams Apr 17 2009 6:52AM Networking
Cisco boss squashes talk of Sun Microsystems deal

Cisco boss squashes talk of Sun Microsystems deal

Cisco chief executive John Chambers has all but ruled out any chance of an acquisition deal with Sun Microsystems.
Shaun Nichols Apr 17 2009 6:52AM Networking
More money for research is cloud's silver lining

More money for research is cloud's silver lining

A freshly decorated Australian researcher in the $78 billion a year cloud computing industry is using his $1000 award to lift the subject's profile locally.
Nate Cochrane Apr 16 2009 6:15AM Networking
Australian researcher finds silver lining in the cloud

Australian researcher finds silver lining in the cloud

Cloud computing is tipped to nudge $A200 billion a year by 2013, but who pays for it is the question that concerns a newly decorated Melbourne researcher.
Nate Cochrane Apr 15 2009 12:00PM Networking
US Govt asks industry for broadband ideas

US Govt asks industry for broadband ideas

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun a 60 day consultation period with the IT industry over the plans for a national broadband infrastructure.
Iain Thomson Apr 9 2009 11:09AM Networking
Victoria University overhauls data centres

Victoria University overhauls data centres

Victoria University has contracted IBM to design and build a green data centre and will rebuild its existing Footscray Park facility as part of a major program of works.
Ry Crozier Apr 9 2009 12:30AM Networking
Consumers to pay a premium under NBN plan

Consumers to pay a premium under NBN plan

If back-of-the-envelope sums are any guide, Australians would need to be paying at least $70-$80 a month for the high-speed national broadband network to be profitable for investors.
Brett Winterford Apr 8 2009 11:07AM Networking
Network vendors scour for NBN sales openings

Network vendors scour for NBN sales openings

Greenfield fibre-to-the-premise network operators could now be best positioned to provide equipment vendors with a way to sell kit into the $43 billion National Broadband Network.
Ry Crozier Apr 8 2009 12:15AM Networking
Inside the Global Switch Sydney data centre

Inside the Global Switch Sydney data centre

iTnews gets a rare and exclusive look at the results of the last phase of construction and power and cooling upgrades at one of the region’s flagship data centres – and we have the photos to prove it.
Ry Crozier Apr 7 2009 5:41AM Networking
GroceryChoice hosted in Amazon cloud

GroceryChoice hosted in Amazon cloud

The Federal Government’s national grocery price comparison website is undergoing a major rebuild that will see it hosted in Amazon’s EC2 cloud and include integration with Google Maps.
Staff Writers Apr 3 2009 3:11PM Networking
Hitachi leaves ‘cloud’ to likes of Optus, Vigabyte

Hitachi leaves ‘cloud’ to likes of Optus, Vigabyte

Hitachi Data Systems is unlikely to follow other storage vendors into the cloud storage market directly, preferring to provide the infrastructure underpinning the likes of Optus and Vigabyte instead.
Ry Crozier Apr 3 2009 1:14PM Networking
Five tips for wireless success

Five tips for wireless success

Forrester Research analyst Chris Silva offers advice on how to get the most out of wireless technology.
Chris Silva Apr 3 2009 6:08AM Networking
Alcatel-Lucent pushes LTE with Evolved Packet Core

Alcatel-Lucent pushes LTE with Evolved Packet Core

Alcatel-Lucent has introduced its Evolved Packet Core (EPC) aimed at mobile operators moving to Long Term Evolution (LTE).
Ian Williams Apr 3 2009 5:57AM Networking
Cisco touts new unified comms and telepresence systems

Cisco touts new unified comms and telepresence systems

Networking giant Cisco has unveiled new systems within its unified communications (UC) and TelePresence portfolios.
Ian Williams Apr 2 2009 6:06AM Networking
Open Cloud Manifesto member companies revealed

Open Cloud Manifesto member companies revealed

The initial roster for the Open Cloud Manifesto was released on Monday, and many of the biggest names in the web services industry are conspicuously absent.
Shaun Nichols Apr 1 2009 12:24AM Networking

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