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    iiNet's legal counsel this morning ridiculed Village Roadshow's involvement in the case against the ISP, revealing Roadshow Movies had signed a deal to distribute its content over iiNet's so-called Freezone service.

  • Flash in the Pan

    So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. It took me less than 15 minutes of research to determine that it may not kill Flash but it will most definitely do it some serious market damage. Why?

  • Microsoft needs some open-source fairy dust

    Novell, Sun, IBM and HP have all managed to appropriate some of the positive kudos generated by the open-source community, leaving Microsoft looking cold and out of touch.

  • Wireless raises the final standard

    Commentary: The strangest wireless system has become more mainstream, but may still be the last thing you need.

  • Corporate customers in the driver's seat

    Tech companies may finally wake up to the fact that today's market runs according to buyers' needs, not the latest hype.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Fowl play foiled, Telstra's fairy tale is over

    Like many, I expected Telstra's dismissal was inevitable, given that it had openly flouted the NBN's guidelines and attempted to bend the process to its own wishes. But who would have expected it so soon?

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Is encryption just a waste of time?

    Faced with the thought of a USB drive, notebook PC or backup tape going missing, most IT managers look to some form of encryption as the first layer of defence. However, according to one storage security expert, that's largely a pointless exercise.

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  • What is Google Wave good for?

    I've been puttering around in Google Wave for the best part of a week now, and I understand it, but I have no idea in hell what I'm supposed to be using it for.

  • Lighting the murky depths of multicore pricing

    Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.

  • Flash in the Pan

    So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. It took me less than 15 minutes of research to determine that it may not kill Flash but it will most definitely do it some serious market damage. Why?

  • Storage-server hybrids coming into vogue

    When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.

  • Apple breaks silence on security

    Bud Tribble, a key engineer behind Mac OS X, explains that the security flap around Apple is more hysteria than reality.

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