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    The fact that the spectacular expansion of internet activity has continued, and even accelerated through the financial crisis shows that the global exchange of information does not depend, in any important way, on the global financial sector.

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    Melbourne IT's chief operating officer Andrew Field has been poached by an unknown company, leaving chief executive Theo Hnarakis bereft of the executive he described today as his "wing man".

  • WebCentral suffers lengthy outage

    Melbourne IT today admitted websites belonging to a number of customers of its WebCentral brand went down over the weekend, following a data corruption issue in its storage systems.

  • Turnbull cancels on Internet industry

    Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull cancelled his planned keynote speech at the Internet Industry Association's Sydney gala last night after being called away for other duties in Canberra.

  • Melbourne IT spends up on systems

    Domain name and hosting specialist Melbourne IT today unveiled plans to embark on a year-long major technology refresh project, targeting everything from its accounting, billing and provisioning systems to its storage network and data centre.

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    The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.

  • Managed services: Kinder, gentler outsourcing

    It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.

  • CommVault boosts ANZ wins

    Data management provider CommVault Systems bagged a whopping 48 new customers in Australia and New Zealand between April and June, the company said in a statement.

  • Is hosted anti-spam the answer?

    It has taken only four years for spam to become the bane of business but, as SMBs are finding, spam can be killed before it enters inboxes with the use of a hosted provider.

  • Playing 'for' a perfect host

    Before handing over your IT requirements to a host, you had better learn to play all your cards right.

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  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

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    From digital images to digital cameras, and monitors to view it all on, we've got this week's product announcements covered right here in Reviews News.

  • Dreamweaver 3 Fireworks 3 Studio

    If you are a professional Web developer, chances are that you already use at least one of Macromedia's Web-centric products. With the release of Dreamweaver 3 Fireworks 3 Studio

  • Xara X

    Already an excellent vector drawing program for Windows-based graphics artists, latest version of Xara makes it easier to give photorealistic touches to vector images as well as improves its Web-based capabilities.

  • Apple goes square with G4 cube

    Opening Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs unveiled new Apple computers and peripherals -- including an 8-inch cube with G4 processor inside, a revised keyboard and a new optical mouse, previewed recently on the ZDNet network.

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