The fact that the spectacular expansion of internet activity has continued, and even accelerated through the financial crisis shows that the global exchange of information does not depend, in any important way, on the global financial sector.
Opinions are split amongst analysts, telcos and ISPs as to whether Pipe's new PPC-1 Sydney to Guam submarine cable will lead to lower broadband prices for Australians, but all agree the threat of its arrival, set for October, has had a positive impact already.
Chinese networking vendor Huawei has slammed as "ludicrous and inaccurate" claims that it had links to the Chinese military and government that could cause security problems for the National Broadband Network.
Shadow Communications Minister Senator Nick Minchin today said he thought it unlikely a builder for the Federal Government's $4.7 billion national broadband network would be locked in for another 12 months.
A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Indexing a large chunk of data is a bit like joining Weight Watchers: it's a useful first step, but it doesn't immediately solve the problem of how you're going to deal with all that blubber.
When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive.
It's hard to think about anything else today other than Australia's ludicrous 1-0 defeat this morning by Luis Medina Cantalejo, oops I mean Italy.
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The leaders of Australia's ICT industry are currently in a state of panic over the debatable prospect of an economic downturn in the sector and are going too far with cutting jobs.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
In final instalment of 'Securing Microsoft', Ina Fried looks at the next generation of security threats. With Microsoft now outspending everyone with their massive security budget, will it be enough to stop ever more sophisticated security threats?
In part two of 'Securing Microsoft', we learn how the company slowly became more intimate with the security community. Microsoft's slow shift to focus more on security came to a head with Vista, with more money spent in securing Vista than anybody has ever been invested into securing any piece of software before.
Sony Ericsson's Naite isn't a heart-starter but let's face it, the reason you'd buy the Naite is for the secret pleasure of knowing your phone is slightly less of a burden on the environment than those wretched iPhones.
While the higher power consumption is a slight concern, the X4 955 proves that AMD is back in the performance game and ready to play hard ball. Bring on the next generation.
While Core i7 presents a new performance paradigm, the heinously gluttonous Australian prices will need to come down before it's accepted by the mainstream.
AOC's latest 19-inch monitor from its Jenio range has brilliant colours and great ergonomics, but we would have liked to have seen a faster refresh rate than 60Hz at its native resolution.
What a difference a year can make. Toshiba's R400 made quite the impression when it was launched a small, lightweight, brilliantly sensitive tablet that packed in features with some serious style. Now, it's boxy and large for what's offered inside, and is seriously out of style and overpriced.
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