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News (186)

• Futuris' Amcom stake finds a home

  Local telco Amcom Telecommunications has moved to shore up its future by buying back some of the 50 per cent stake its partial parent Futuris had been looking to sell.

• Westfield halts 'Internet Shoppingtown'

  Australian shopping mall owner Westfield Holdings has halted its plans to launch an 'Internet Shoppingtown' until market conditions take on a drastic change for the better.

• Internode stops regional broadband rollout

  Internet service provider Internode has halted its regional broadband rollout due to an "unexpected and premature end" of the federal government's Broadband Connect Program.

• Birth-record Web site sales halted

  A Californian judge has suspended the sale of birth and death records to private companies, which have published the data online, on concerns that the records could be used to steal identities.

• UK halts 'wealthy' Internet plan

  British mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester has shelved plans to launch a stand-alone Internet-based service for wealthy individuals.

Blogs (2)

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  Telstra's 100Mbps: The great PSTN robbery

  Many Australians are drooling at the prospect of 100Mbps broadband, but Trujillo seems to have a bigger endgame in mind. As Telstra poaches customers from the PSTN and NBN, he'll leave more poison pills than we've seen since Phar Lap.

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  Web 2.0 makes phishing spam obsolete

  In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.

Features and Case Studies (24)

• A question of QoS

  All geared up for the new year and nowhere to go. This is how employees at a Sydney company felt when production drew to an abrupt halt due to the incompetence of its Internet Service Provider.

• 10 security problems unique to IT

  Organisations face a host of security concerns driven by the power of technology and the vulnerabilities inherent in its use. IT pros have to be vigilant about all these issues, from system penetration threats to hardware portability to employee turnover.

• Future direction trapped in halt state

  Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.

• Telco 2008: A year in review

  2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

• Time to join the torch-light parades ...

  Exetel CEO John Linton takes "Herr Krudd" and "Obersturmfuhrer Conroy" to task for their scheme to purge the Fatherland of the filth emanating from the diseased brains of the untermenscen.

Reviews (13)

• Microsoft: No new versions of IE for Mac

  Microsoft says that it is halting development of future Macintosh versions of its Internet Explorer browser, citing competition from Apple Computer's Safari browser.

• Hyper-V

  Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.

• BlackBerry 8800

  The BlackBerry 8800 offers several improvements to its predecessor, including GPS and the Pearl trackwheel, although it doesn't support 3G.

• South Koreans warned on Vista compatibility

  South Korean government officials are warning consumers that Internet and e-commerce sites in that country may lack full compatibility with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, which will become available to consumers next week.

• Apple Boot Camp (beta)

  Apple gives the people what they want: Windows on Macs. Geeks proved it could be done through a variety of complicated hacks and now Apple makes it a breeze with a free download. We take Boot Camp for a test run.

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