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  • Spam report: volumes rising again

    Spammers knocked offline two weeks ago when their hosting company, McColo, was shut down are finally coming back online, security researchers said this week.

  • Telstra leaves unions at the altar

    Telstra didn't turn up to a hearing today by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission concerning a union agreement for workers.

  • Google defends privacy credentials

    Google has defended its privacy credentials following a claim by Microsoft's privacy chief last week that the search giant was a decade behind Microsoft when it came to privacy.

  • Guinness awards download record to Firefox 3

    The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox.

  • Security spend hits $10bn as SMEs wise up

    Gartner says the US$10.5bn figure will be reached by the end of 2008, rising to US$13.1bn by 2012, as SMEs intensify their focus on security.

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    Will Rudd's bush backhaul bonanza deliver?

    Rural areas will be welcoming the government's decision to put its money where its politicising is, funnelling $250m into a regional fibre upgrade to six rural centres. Remedying over a decade of near-neglect at the hands of telecoms privatisation, the investment could be the firmest step yet for Labor's NBN dream but with inevitable political questions and a looming election, Rudd and Conroy need to deliver, and quickly, to preserve the NBN's credibility.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    US shows what OPEL could have been

    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.

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  • 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.

  • AFP's high-tech unit let Rome burn

    The "Anonymous" hacker group gave Australia's police forces a month's warning that it was going to attack the Federal Government. Why didn't the Australian Federal Police's electronic crimes unit do anything about it?

  • Manning the wheels of IT

    The global CIO of recruitment and staffing agency Manpower talks about the issues involved in turning around the company's IT operations.

  • Crisis strikes: What do you do next?

    The corporate Web site is gone and a hacker has made off with the database. The company's reputation is at stake. What crisis management tactics should be employed?

  • Open source's next frontier

    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

Reviews (9)

  • Toshiba Portege R200

    Though it's a tad expensive, the Toshiba Portege R200 is a well-designed ultraportable with enough speed and battery life for business travellers.

  • Samsung D410

    Masculine looks aside, the Samsung D410 sliding camera phone is a step up from the previous sliding phones.

  • Analysts giving PSX lukewarm reception

    Sony's new media center hits the Japanese market, but its pared-down features have cooled many experts' enthusiasm.

  • First Look: Nokia 5140

    VoIP and GPRS technology enable the 5140 to act like a walkie-talkie, with the ability to automatically broadcast your voice to many handsets at once.

  • Mobile Mania: 10 phones reviewed

    ZDNet Australia puts 10 of the best phones on the market today under the reviews microscope. Whatever your mobile needs are, we've got a phone to ponder for you, as well as a look at the first 3G phone on the Australian market.

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