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  • eBay Australia hits tenth birthday

    Since 1999 it has attracted bargain hunters, desperate shopaholics and the just plain lazy. Today eBay Australia marks its 10th anniversary down under, having sold more than 173 million items at a rate of one item every 1.8 seconds.

  • Westfield to deploy 40 TelePresence units

    Shopping centre giant Westfield is understood to have installed around 40 of Cisco's TelePresence video-conferencing units across Australia; however, its spokespeople have said the deployment is in its "early stages" and only a trial.

  • Amcom on a shopping spree?

    Amcom Telecommunications has put itself into a trading halt on the Australian Stock Exchange pending an announcement to be made on a proposed transaction.

  • Yahoo!7 buys totaltravel.com

    Microsoft and Seven Network's joint venture Yahoo!7 has announced the purchase of totaltravel.com to bolster its involvement in the online travel market.

  • Jetstar CIO: Downtime risk saves money

    Jetstar's "doing it for a dollar less" mentality has meant that the airline has accepted the risk that it might not be up all the time in exchange for cheaper services, CIO Stephen Tame said today.

  • Woolies: Customers don't want mobile data

    Woolworths customers don't want data included in their mobile phone plans, according to research the retailer completed to launch its 2G wholesale mobile partnership with Optus today.

  • Sydneysider charged over iPod, laptop theft

    A Sydney department store worker allegedly stole $250,000 worth of electrical items, including laptops and iPods, and sold them through a pawn shop, police have said.

  • Bing to hit Australia next Wednesday

    The local versions of Microsoft's latest crack at Google, a new search engine called Bing, will go live in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday in beta form.

  • Tasmanian Govt appoints hardware panel

    The Tasmanian Government has announced a list of technology hardware resellers and approved manufacturers to supply hardware to government agencies over the next five years.

  • Apple Store opening on the Gold Coast

    Queensland is getting its first Apple retail outlet this Saturday at the Gold Coast's Robina Town Centre.

  • Dick Smith sells Dell

    Dell has announced that Dick Smith will be selling a range of its products within Australia from 6 May.

  • NSW passes police hacking Bill

    Legislation to boost NSW Police covert searching and computer hacking powers looks set to go ahead after facing almost no opposition in the lower house of the NSW Parliament earlier this week.

  • Concerns raised over NSW hacking Bill

    Civil rights and privacy advocates yesterday expressed concern about a NSW Parliament proposal that would allow the state's police to remotely access a suspect's computer for up to 28 days without disclosing the hack for some time.

  • Windows 7 gets down to business

    With Windows 7, Microsoft is trying not to make the same mistakes it did with Windows Vista. That much is clear.

  • Jetstar details weekend swap-out

    Last weekend, discount Qantas subsidiary Jetstar replaced its reservation system in a 21-hour operation, which involved temporarily moving to manual check-ins.

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