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  • Packer vows to continue One.Tel fight

    James Packer has indicated he wants to continue the fight over the collapse of One.Tel, maintaining he was "profoundly misled" about the financial position of the company.

  • One.Tel ruling opens Murdoch/Packer door

    A landmark court ruling over the One.Tel collapse has brought its special purpose liquidator closer in his pursuit of Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer on behalf of creditors.

  • ASIC fails in One.Tel case

    The corporate watchdog has failed in its civil action against One.Tel founder Jodee Rich and the doomed telecommunication's company's finance director Mark Silbermann.

  • ACCC rejects software buy

    Thomson Reuters Australia's purchase of Ernst & Young's tax compliance software business, Ernst & Young Information Systems, has been opposed by the competition regulator.

  • Film studios drop more of iiNet case

    The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) legal action over iiNet's alleged breach of copyright took a further watering down today as the film studios removed the "primary" copyright infringement claim.

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  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Twisted Quiz: Engineers vs. marketeers

    So how did Twisted Wire suddenly change into a game show, albeit for just one episode? It's engineers vs. marketeers at 20 paces.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Australia snares Silicon Valley wireless start-up

    Silicon Valley-based wireless technology start-up Quantenna Communications is planning to open a 30 to 50-person research facility in Australia following an injection of venture capital by the Australian-US fund Southern Cross Venture Partners.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Telstra: We hear separation rumours

    Is the government manoeuvring towards a structural separation of Telstra?

  • Librarians gone wild

    It's Patch Monday, ZDNet.com.au's weekly podcast that looks at the big stories within the Australian IT community.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Is Facebook's care really contempt?

    Facebook's answer as to why it removed vigilante groups that had posted details about accused fire-bug Brendan Sokaluk smells of fear that it may be as responsible as media for content published on its network.

Features and Case Studies (40)

  • One.Tel's final reckoning

    One.Tel backers James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch are unlikely to be tracking the latest career move by insolvency expert Paul Weston, but they know who he is and must dread what he is about to do. Thought the One.Tel legal action was over? Think again.

  • Paul Fletcher's Wired Brown Land: Review

    Former Optus executive Paul Fletcher's book "Wired Brown Land? Telstra's Battle for Broadband" details the history of broadband communication in our nation and highlights why it is impossible that Telstra will give up in its fight for dominance, despite the wounds it has recently taken.

  • Just what is behind the iiNet case?

    Landmark Federal Court legal action by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) against ISP iiNet highlights the competing interests of ISPs and rights holders in respect of unauthorised filesharing, and should expose the inability of the Australian Copyright Act to satisfactorily resolve the issue.

  • Microsoft and Novell's bridge to Linux

    The longtime rivals make nice with a plan to help businesses use the open-source operating system along with Windows. Red Hat, meanwhile, moved quickly to pour cold water on the partnership.

  • Saving Linux from the lawyers

    CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system.

Reviews (10)

  • Policy Central Enterprise

    Enforcing the acceptable use of business computers is often a tricky business. Policy Central Enterprise is an application that offers to help manage an AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) by placing the onus on individual users.

  • Apple agrees to some OS X refunds

    Apple Computer has reached a tentative settlement in a class-action lawsuit that alleged the company had failed to fully support Mac OS X on some G3-based Macs.

  • Can the music industry change?

    In order to survive, the IT industry has gone through some big changes in the last few years. by contrast, the music industry still doesn't get it.

  • DVD burning: a business issue?

    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?

  • Commodore 64 brand gets new guardian angel

    The relaunch of the Commodore 64 means a subscription Web portal and a new logo, as the company responsible for its licensing moves to protect the brand.

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