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  • Kazaa witness takes iiTrial stand

    Nigel Carson, a computer forensics investigator and a key witness in the 2004 Kazaa case, was called to the witness box today by iiNet's legal team to answer questions on whether an IP address was enough to identify a movie pirate.

  • Gmail knocked offline for majority of users

    Google's Gmail service was knocked offline on Tuesday in an outage that the company said affected a "majority" of its millions of email users.

  • Telstra to plead guilty on access dispute

    Telstra is expected to plead guilty today to breaching its obligations to provide competitors access to its copper network.

  • CentOS developers threaten mutiny

    Offering a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux turned out not to be such a simple matter after all.

  • Thodey hails $146m Catholic NBN

    Telstra chief David Thodey today announced a $146 million broadband network project to connect over 1550 Catholic Australian schools.

Blogs (28)

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Can the Telco Reform Act be win-win?

    In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Duel of the fates: Atlassian and Omnidrive

    Only a few years ago Atlassian and Omnidrive were the flag carriers for Australia's Web 2.0 movement. But recent developments have shown just how different the outcomes for start-up companies and entrepreneurs can be.

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    IPv6 hits NZ internet backbone

    The next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, has been much discussed but long in coming around the world.

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    Even tougher times ahead for Rakon?

    GPS component manufacturer Rakon announced a big drop in earnings this week. Can it recover though, even if the recession ends?

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Kev the Broadband Builder

    Is the NBN announcement a good thing? The industry at large seems to say yes. The Opposition is less sold on the idea, as you'll hear from Nick Minchin.

Features and Case Studies (283)

  • Fedora 12: Screenshot gallery

    Fedora is Red Hat's younger, more community-driven desktop-centric distribution. ZDNet.com.au grabbed the ISOs hot out of the oven to see what Fedora 12 was all about.

  • Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

    Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

  • Twitter in court: Why not streaming video?

    Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?

  • 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.

  • What's the best blade server?

    Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.

Videos (4)

  • Google CEO Eric Schmidt

    Google's chief sits down for an extremely rare, wide-ranging interview and discusses Google's two operating systems, government scrutiny, and, of course, evil.

  • Why security appliances can make you less secure

    Security appliances can introduce vulnerabilities into an organisation's network because they often include older operating systems and vendors rarely inform customers how to properly update them, according to Microsoft's Roger Grimes, who was speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference.

  • HP Officejet J6480

    The HP Officejet J6480 has a lot of built-in features that are rarely found included in a AU$300 printer.

  • Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre

    Blow off the dust and get ready to dig through boxes. News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes a tour of the biggest garage sale for antique computers, vintage video games, and discarded gadgets - -the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Reviews (240)

  • iiNet BoB wireless modem

    iiNet customers who yearn for a simple networking life will do well out of BoB, although like most routers, it's not without its quirks.

  • Dell Latitude E6400

    Dell's Latitude E6400 is a full featured business laptop that delivers on performance, battery life and price in one neat bundle.

  • Lenovo ThinkPad T400

    Lenovo's ThinkPad T400 is another fine entry into its portfolio, but be prepared to spend extra to get the features you need.

  • Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: round-up

    We compare Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems and pick a winner.

  • What's the best blade server?

    Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.

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