Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals.
It's not at all quiet on the fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network front, as telcos lodge their submissions on regulatory issues for the AU$4.7 billion national broadband network (NBN) and the Liberal party throws a spanner in the works by starting an inquiry into the government's handling of the network tender.
Competition for dominance of search engine rankings is turning sour as rival companies sabotage each other's Web sites to trick search engines into mistakenly believing them to be spam sites.
Government continues to shun colossal outsourcing contracts in favour of selective sourcing, while businesses display growing confidence in software-as-a-service -- however sustained skills shortages have plagued deployments, sparking interest in offshore options.
The Australian Tax Office's past outsourcing contracts were too rigid to cope with technological change, according to its CIO, Bill Gibson -- so this time, business gets shotgun and IT will take a back seat.
Optus' involvement in the controversial government blacklist project could fall on either side of the fence. In kissing the ring, is Optus conceding that censorship is inevitable or hatching a scheme to discredit Conroy's folly from within?
Many Australians are drooling at the prospect of 100Mbps broadband, but Trujillo seems to have a bigger endgame in mind. As Telstra poaches customers from the PSTN and NBN, he'll leave more poison pills than we've seen since Phar Lap.
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A quarter of employers have sacked workers for how they use their e-mail -- and even for misuse of the office phone, a study shows.
Current tests haven't kept pace with server technology, but an industry consortium is coming to the rescue.
Bank robbers don't wield guns these days, the mouse and keyboard have, instead, become the weapons of choice. And they're coming right through your browser.
A female Belgian virus writer who has allegedly been waging a public and protracted war against an antivirus expert has been arrested and charged by the authorities.
The QNAP QBack-35S as an external SATA backup drive enclosure that can aid in both the safety and mobility of data. We found it to be a reasonable product sabotaged by inadequate documentation.
The next generation of the Microsoft Office system offers a new look and feel across its applications, with dynamic formatting tools and nimbler files.
Microsoft Office 12.0 pre-Beta 1 drastically revamps the interface layouts of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
I was a teenage wardriver. If I were to make a movie about the events of last week, that's what I'd call it. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
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