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  • Melbourne man convicted of piracy

    A Melbourne man was yesterday found guilty on six offences relating to CD and DVD piracy in the Melbourne Magistrates Court and fined $24,000 plus prosecution costs.

  • Studios win Sydney piracy victory

    The local arms of film and music studios have claimed a victory in their war against copyright offences, with a Sydney man convicted for selling pirated content last week.

  • Expert panel members paid $375 an hour

    The cost to the Australian public of the expert panel's advice on the National Broadband Network has been released, with some members receiving almost $400 an hour.

  • WA Govt intervenes in offshoring plan

    Fears that over 100 jobs from Western Australian Energy company Synergy would be outsourced to an Indian IT company were yesterday laid to rest.

  • Palin ordered to save e-mails

    Alaska Governor Sarah Palin must save any emails she sent from private accounts regarding state business, a US judge ordered late last week.

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    Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

    Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.

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  • Q&A: BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp

    BMC Software CEO Bob Beauchamp has headed up the company since the beginning of the decade, transforming it into the business service management power it is today. We find out what his priorities are.

  • Telstra lost in the wasteland

    From dead parrots to ACCC lawsuits, the National Broadband Network and Fake Stephen Conroy, it's like Telstra is lost in T.S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland.

  • Why I switched from Firefox to Chrome

    Sorry if it sounds like I'm drinking the Google Kool-Aid here, but I have switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome as my default browser for the very reason Google's executives said we should: speed.

  • Mozilla gets new head honcho

    Mozilla Corp., the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, has promoted chief operating officer John Lilly to chief executive, the organisation behind the Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software said.

  • Photos: CeBIT Australia 2007

    CeBIT Australia is on again for 2007 with hundreds of IT products and services on display in addition to the conference, keynotes and forums. Join us as we take a photo tour of the exhibition halls.

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  • Ballmer touts Windows 7 features

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reveals that Windows 7 is going to be a major release, not just a Vista update. He says the new Windows will have a better user interface, information management tools, and performance. It isn't practical to wait for Windows 7 instead of deploying Vista, he says, since both systems are compatible. Interviewers: Neil MacDonald and David Mitchell Smith of Gartner.

  • Mozilla goes mobile

    At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker talks about the company's plans to enter the smartphone market with Fennec, a mobile version of its Firefox browser. She also discusses how the new, open platform will encourage Web 2.0 application development.

  • Microsoft CEO talks Google, SaaS

    At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Gartner research analysts, Yvonne Genovese and David Mitchell Smith about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets.

  • CeBIT: Mozilla CEO's speaks up

    Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker says Firefox is predominantly about promoting a healthy and open Internet where no company or individual holds a monopoly on innovation.

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  • HP finds a thrilla in Mozilla

    Hewlett-Packard will sidestep a Netscape-branded browser for its open-source original, a move the company calls a vote of confidence for the open-source model.

  • DVD-Audio versus SACD?

    The future of high-fidelity audio is here. The only questions are: which is better and which is here to stay? Two new digital audio formats, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD, square off.

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