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Teaching business to suck eggs

If there's anything we should have learned over the years, it's that a website is good for business.

April 24th, 2012 in E-commerce by Darren Greenwood 1 Comment Vote

By the numbers: AU up to the online challenge?

The latest figures show slow growth in the retail sector, and categories that can easily be bought online from overseas are struggling the most.

April 10th, 2012 in By The Numbers by Phil Dobbie 1 Comment Vote

Orange re-signs Rio Tinto network deal

Mining giant Rio Tinto has re-signed Orange Business Services for a "substantial" five-year contract to deliver network and security services to 280 sites across the globe.

April 3rd, 2012 in Contracts by Suzanne Tindal Comment Vote

Vendors feel net censorship heat

The recent dust up involving an internet filtering plan by Pakistan has turned the spotlight on a controversial business that may have a difficult time remaining secret for much longer.

March 21st, 2012 in Security by Elinor Mills Comment Vote

By the numbers: productivity needs a push

Even companies that see productivity as a priority are expecting to see fewer tangible benefits this year.

March 20th, 2012 in By The Numbers by Phil Dobbie Comment 1 Vote

Expanding the borders of financial analysis

Despite the ever-declining cost of data storage, the exponential growth of computing speed defined by "Moore's Law" and the more than $3 trillion in reported global ICT spending in 2007, some managers spent the frantic early hours and days of the financial crisis flying blind.

March 16th, 2012 in Cloud by Matthew Malone Comment Vote

CBA trialling rural teleconferencing

Commonwealth Bank customers might soon be able to have a FaceTime conversation with their bank manager, according to chief information officer, Michael Harte, with trials already underway in rural areas to connect staff to customers on farms.

March 8th, 2012 in VoIP by Luke Hopewell 5 Comments 14 Votes

Firms needlessly fall to simple attacks

Security researchers have done the analysis and found that simple, not complex, exploits are responsible for the majority of hacker attacks — but many businesses aren't testing for them or other avenues of attack.

March 6th, 2012 in Security by Michael Lee 1 Comment 2 Votes

Siri-style search wins CBA code comp

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) customers may soon be able to use natural language to search through their transactions, after the bank held its first internal code competition to find the company's top techie.

February 29th, 2012 in Business by Luke Hopewell Comment Vote

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RT @juhasaarinen: NBN users opt for 100Mbps http://t.co/T7uk1hbK by @joshgnosis

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Poor Oracle, poor, poor Oracle, I feel so sorry for them. I really hope they don't go bust, for at least another 5 or 6 months. Sucked in...

1 hour ago by Rex Alfie on Google didn't infringe on Oracle patents: jury

The point of pilot schemes is to determine the best practice and save money in the broader picture. The Tasmanian rollout planning actua...

1 hour ago by GregoryB1 on NBN's Tassie upgrade to cost $1.3 million

I think that a CBA is unlikely because with the high proportion of customers now electing for the highest rate (50% of connections in Apr...

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DDoS works because you have enough compromised machines to clog the pipe or servers of the victim. If, the victim's pipe is widened by a ...

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Please stop with the analytical, common sense and facts, Gregory. Those opposed to the NBN don't want to hear such things, which is why ...

2 hours ago by Beta on Blowing the digital dividend on wireless NBN

But, yet again, Turnbull is clearly in error when he says that other companies cannot roll out copper. In South Brisbane Telstra chose to...

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Not much point running fiber back to the exchange if that exchange itself is connected by copper. It is access to fiber backhaul that de...

2 hours ago by GregoryB1 on Copper greenfield dominance irrelevant: Conroy

2 hours ago by Beta on Copper greenfield dominance irrelevant: Conroy

So instead you want these estates wired up with fiber and then left, unconnected with no service, until the fiber rollout reaches them in...

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@paulbrislen @juhasaarinen Prices compared here: http://t.co/WnZzXP5Z

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RT @joshgnosis: @paulbrislen @juhasaarinen Prices compared here: http://t.co/WnZzXP5Z

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Water, roads and electricity were all rolled out by government because there private companies weren't interested as the ROI in the early...

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NBN users opt for 100Mbps http://t.co/T7uk1hbK by @joshgnosis

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The case you outline, South Brisbane, is in fact the coalitions prefered model. They WANT the incumbent telco, Telstra, to provide the f...

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Cybersecurity #collaboration between the US & Australia. http://t.co/p2uKLSBi

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So, over time, the Coalition policy will cost much much more than Labor's because they intend to subsidise the broadband of farmers and t...

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Any form of science training counts against you as a politician, in the coalition parties, doubly so. There may be others who keep quiet...

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Qld govt IT to be cleaned up by audit http://t.co/r4oNuNW8 #qldpol

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Sorry HC, what is meant by "Cinders "?

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Thanks Beta, I could hear the nurse walking down the corridor as you posted. Much better now.

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You say that the golden age of cyber crime will be over by 2014/2015. I would like to differ. I believe that cyber criminals are getting ...

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Before accusing me of fudging the figures, that was the percentage in April, the latest available. It seems that as the advantage of the ...

9 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

Currently about 50% of connections are at the 100Mb/s rate.
As a consequence, ARPU is significantly higher than the projected figures.

9 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

Currently about 50% of connections are at the 100Mb/s rate.
As a consequence, ARPU is significantly higher than the projected figures.

9 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

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