The Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy intends to survey school children, parents and teachers on e-security and cyber-safety threats from late July 2009.
The Sydney CBD internet cafe raided by the Australian Federal Police late last year has been fined $82,000 in the Downing Centre Local Court for copyright violations.
Online auction site eBay has made public the details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud being perpetrated from criminals in Romania -- an effort that has resulted in several hundred arrests.
Yahoo is set to release late Wednesday a new Web-based version of its instant-messaging application that lets people use Yahoo Messenger on any browser and any Internet-connected computer rather than having to download it to a hard drive.
A Hotmail user logged into their account this week to find that scammers had deleted all their e-mails except for one, which was from a hacker demanding cash in exchange for restoring the lost information, according to Websense.
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A mobile telecommunications revolution in Africa is bringing new economic opportunities to the world's most impoverished continent, while providing lessons that can help carriers around the world push into other low-value markets. Brad Howarth reports.
Microsoft's chairman talks about taking on the big guns in the business software market. "We are patient people," he says.
Web site operators and corporations are playing game of I spy, you spy with covert cloaking trick.
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ThinApp, previously known as Thinstall, offers a more streamlined and portable approach to new software roll-outs and development. Software developers and administrators of large numbers of workstations and or mobile workers are bound to benefit greatly from this software.
Norton Internet Security 2007 makes significant gains over last year, including cutting-edge rootkit and behavioral monitoring features found nowhere else, but the overall package could be serious overkill for the average desktop owner.
Mio's A701 is a jack-of-all-trades handheld combining PDA and phone functionality, GPS navigation, a 1.3-megapixel camera, an MP3 player and a movie player.
Those seeking a wireless "broadband anywhere" connection have another reliable option with the 3 Mobile Internet NetConnect Card, but the usual "subject to coverage area" caveats apply.
Making copies of DVD movies on the office machine may seem like an excellent idea to some of your employees. But what issues should Australian enterprises and IT departments be aware of?
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