Mininova's decision to remove links to copyright-protected media last week is being hailed as a victory by Dutch anti-piracy group Stichting Brein. However, it's unlikely to make much difference to network traffic and could prove a boon for independent producers.
Over the coming weeks Nextgen boss Phil Sykes will be touting a new pricing regime for regional backhaul, which the telecoms industry hopes will undercut Telstra's pricing.
Leighton subsidiary Nextgen Networks has pipped Optus for the $250 million deal to roll-out 6000 kilometres of backbone links to regional Australia.
Telstra today revealed it had won a five-year, $62.5 million deal to provide utility AGL with telecommunications services, including the migration to a new managed IP data network which will increase capacity between AGL's sites.
Telstra's main union has accused the telco of asking for "volunteers" to help clean up its telephone exchanges on a Saturday, while at the same time conducting a strike tomorrow that will interrupt Telstra customers.
The potential acquisition of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia has raised the question about whether vertically integrated backhaul providers will mean higher wholesale prices for ISP customers.
It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
Brisbane-born start-up Particls promised a better way of organising information from the web. Now, however, it appears to have given up the battle, with both the Particls website and that of its parent company Faraday Media disappearing from the web.
Some of the 500,000 visitors expected to walk through the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on the Sydney coastline this November can be excused for saying they are seeing things that aren't really there.
I've been playing around with a beta build of Firefox's 3.6 browser for some time, and while it's been completely stable, its new tab behaviour has annoyed me.
It's the new kid in OS town and has been attracting attention from all quarters. Although far from complete, we decided to take an early build of Chrome OS for a spin.
Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?
The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala will be the distribution's eleventh release, and highlights include the addition of a new boot screen, an updated default theme, and the addition of the Ubuntu One service.
iiNet CTO Greg Bader explains the effect that companies such as Pipe Networks, which runs a 1.92Tbps submarine cable from Sydney to Guam and owns numerous metro-based dark fibre links, are having on data prices.
Microsoft now builds security into products such as Vista but attackers have shifted their focus to applications so software vendors are the weakest link, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group.
Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.
Use of social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook need to be controlled and monitored, not banned from the workplace, according to Jay Heiser, research VP infosecurity, Gartner.
Rich DeMuro and Dan Ackerman show you how to identify and remove icons, links, and trial programs you might not need on your new PC.
Business users looking for a competent, no-nonsense smartphone will like the E72 for its breadth of features and stylish design.
The Pro805 frustrates as much as it innovates with a touchscreen interface and an interesting, iPhone-style app store.
Thecus' N5500 is, like all of Thecus' lines, best suited to the professional user who doesn't mind tweaking the unit to get the most out of it.
SonicWall's feature-packed TZ 210 gateway security appliance is capable of protecting all kinds of networks at a very affordable price. It's easy to set-up and manage, and sets a new price point in the UTM market.
Microsoft Security Essentials is recommended for those who want something to set and ignore, but users who want more robust configuration choices or don't want to contribute to the cloud should look elsewhere.
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