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Liberal communications spokesperson Bruce Billson has accused the Rudd government of having an inconsistent stance on its dealings with Telstra and its activation of the ADSL2+ network -- but one analyst claims it could all just be semantics.
Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday said it was not in Telstra's interests to squeeze the last drop of "bitter lemon" from the Work Choices legislation in its dealings with employees.
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John Howard's statement last week on telecommunications regulations should be seen as the last word and a signal for the industry to keep quiet on the issue for a while.
Finally, after months of the Clintons posting Sopranos-style satires and Obama Girl grabbing the headlines during the American presidential race, Australian politicians have switched on to the power of the Internet.
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Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
We sat down with security analyst Andrew Walls at Gartner ITExpo and asked him how Web 2.0 affects application security. He talked to us about how traditional desktop security measures are falling short in a Web 2.0 world and how developers need to take more personal responsibility for the security of their code.
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