| Microsoft's Mega Patch TuesdayStephen Withers A larger than usual collection of patches has been released by Microsoft just ahead of Elvis's anniversary on Thursday.
| | Get an Xbox 360 for the price of a WiiMike Bantick Want a next generation gaming console, but a quick look into the dark depths of your wallet leave you mournful? Well as of today, you can pic... | | | | | | | Put Skype on your iPhoneStuart Corner German software company, Shape Services, has announced that IM+ for Skype, its Safari web application for accessing the Skype ecosystem from... | | | | | SCO stock tumbles after courtroom defeatStephen Withers SCO's share price collapsed by around two thirds when trading opened following the news of a court ruling that the company does not own the copyrig... | | |
Technology News & Views | Microsoft's Mega Patch Tuesday Stephen Withers A larger than usual collection of patches has been released by Microsoft just ahead of Elvis's anniversary on Thursday.
| | Genesys adds Asterisk support Stephen Withers Contact centre software provider Genesys has announced it will provide formal support for the Asterisk open-source IP telephony platform.
| Final testing of SUNA broadcast traffic alerts Stephen Withers SUNA Traffic Channel - Australia's first Traffic Message Channel (TMC) road information service - is set to go live in Melbourne by Christmas, spreading to Sydney and Brisbane by the end of the first quarter of 2008. Adelaide and Perth will be added later that year.
| 'Most technically advanced police car' revealed Stephen Withers It might not be Knight Rider's K.I.T.T, but the "world's most technically advanced police car" was unveiled at the SmartDemo 2007 intelligent transport systems conference and exhibition in Melbourne today.
| | Nokia Siemens joins Linux Foundation to push 'telco' Linux Stuart Corner Nokia Siemens Networks, one of the world's leading manufacturers of telecommunications carrier network equipment, has joined the Linux Foundation in a move that is expected to improve so-called 'carrier-grade' Linux. It is one of several initiatives by the company in this direction.
| | | Introduction to Linux penetration testing with nmap David M Williams How can you be sure your network is secure? Before you can patch vulnerabilities you need to discover them. You need to think like a cracker might. You need to hack your own system. This is known as “penetration testing” – a more palatable term to corporations – and the rich tool set of Linux makes it a superb platform for doing this.
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 Tech Lifestyle Get an Xbox 360 for the price of a Wii Mike Bantick Want a next generation gaming console, but a quick look into the dark depths of your wallet leave you mournful? Well as of today, you can pick up a Xbox 360 console in Australia for the same price as the Nintendo Wii.
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Telecommunications News and Views Nokia offers to replace 46 million batteries Stuart Corner Nokia has a battery problem: or 46 million battery problems to be precise. That is the number of BL-5C batteries manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006 that have been installed in 14 different Nokia mobile phones.
| Put Skype on your iPhone Stuart Corner German software company, Shape Services, has announced that IM+ for Skype, its Safari web application for accessing the Skype ecosystem from mobile devices, is now available for the iPhone.
| Microsoft says TV 'white space' usable without interference Stephen Withers Microsoft is pressing ahead with plans to use vacant TV spectrum for wireless services.
Tags: broadcasting, Digital TV, Hardware, Internet, microsoft, mobility, standards, Stephen Withers, Telecoms regulation, television, Wireless broadband, | | Vodafone offers $0 BlackBerry Curve 8300 and unlimited emails for $30 Stuart Corner Vodafone has become the first mobile operator in Australia to introduce the new BlackBerry Curve 8300 smartphone and is offering it at no charge to customers who sign up for its capped business plans and pay an additional $30 per month to receive unlimited emails.
| WiMAX Forum scores a heavyweight: Vodafone joins Stuart Corner The 'clout' of the WiMAX Forum, the global organisation made up of carriers and equipment manufacturers set up to promote WiMAX has increased significantly with Vodafone becoming a principal member.
| Pipe Networks picks builder for submarine cable Stuart Corner Pipe Networks is yet to make a firm commitment to proceed with Project Runway, its planned submarine cable linking Sydney To Guam, but it has announced that, if it goes ahead, Tyco Telecommunications will build it.
| | Telstra's impressive performance Stuart Corner Telstra has delivered a stunning full year performance with a $110 million write down of The Trading Post one of the few blemishes.
| Ban on Qualcomm handsets to stay, Qualcomm to appeal Stuart Corner Qualcomm says it will appeal the ban imposed on the import to the US of handsets containing it chips - imposed by the International Trade Commission in response to Qualcomm infringing Broadcom's intellectual property - after the US trade representative declined to overturn the ban. |
Technology deals, mergers and acquisitions | Hostworks signs Sky News Stephen Withers Sky News parent Australian News Channel has signed a three year content delivery contract with Hostworks.
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BBC's net video service has ISPs up in arms Stuart Corner ISPs in the UK are up in arms over the BBC's new video distribution service that lets people watch recent programmes over the Internet. They claim it is going to cost them by gobbling up bandwidth, but it seems the real issue is that their pricing decisions are coming back to bite them.
| Internet filter clogged with regurgitated policies Stuart Corner John Howard and Helen Coonan really must think the electorate and the Australian media totally bereft of any collective memory. How else could it hope to get away with the regurgitation of discredited policies and unfulfilled promises that passes for the latest $119m 'protecting families' online initiative?
| | Darl McBride, where are you? Sam Varghese Nearly 54 months ago, when the SCO Group launched its legal action against IBM, there were a number of cheerleaders - both SCO personnel and outsiders - who contributed a great deal to the debate.
| SCO falls flat on its face Sam Varghese The SCO Group may face financial ruin after a ruling in the US that it does not own the IP rights to UNIX. Novell has been ruled to own the IP.
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Australian ICT News People - Technology movers and shakers Sponsored Releases | Newspoll Survey Finds 21 percent of Consumers Have Switched Broadband Provider A recent Newspoll survey* conducted on behalf of RightNow® Technologies, has found that 46 percent of Australians with broadband internet would leave their current internet service provider (ISP) as a result of poor customer service. Indeed, 21 percent have already axed a previous broadband internet provider based on a poor customer service experience. Tags: | SNIA A/NZ Appoints NetApp Director to Board Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), a leading provider of storage and data management solutions, today announced that Scott Morris, Director of Partner and Public Sector Sales for NetApp A/NZ has been appointed to the SNIA A/NZ Board of Directors. Tags: | NetApp and VMware Tighten Joint Engineering, Marketing, Service, and Support Companies Extend Best Practices from More than 3,000 Real-World Deployments to Customers Around the World
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