Telstra subsidiary Sensis has dropped a little under 200 people in a restructure to improve the company's performance and realign the direction of one of its segments.
Denizens of and visitors to New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, can look forward to affordable wireless broadband in many areas from this week, as a metropolitan Wi-Fi network goes live in town.
Mozilla has released Firefox version 2.0.0.10, an update which addresses three high-impact security vulnerabilities.
Former top executives of Brocade Communications Systems will face civil and criminal charges related to allegations of stock option backdating.
A California judge on Thursday dismissed a Web site's lawsuit against Google over its fall in the Google search index, but left the door open for the lawsuit to be amended and refiled.
Economist Gregory L. Rosston says the auction-style approach will likely be evaluated on the wrong criteria.
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Corporate spending on software may be down, but portal software appears to be bucking the trend, allowing companies to streamline business systems access.
A conservative US think tank suggests in an upcoming report that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software.
The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
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