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NetComm has launched an ISP Services Suite that automates modem installation for new broadband customers.

IT managers can breathe a little easier in the knowledge that corporate data held or transmitted by hosted ISP services is to be off limits to private investigators under a Cybercrime Code of Practice developed by the Internet Industry Association (IIA) that will be ratified at the end of this month.

Net Insight AB, a five-year-old Sweden-based developer of data and real-time video networking equipment, this week introduced its product line which is already deployed at several multimedia companies and carriers.

Microsoft's decision to remove Paul Houghton from the Australian managing director's position and replace him with current ninemsn boss Steve Vamos has been described by industry analysts as an unsurprising turn in a natural chain of events.

Regional Asian ISP Pacific Internet (PI) has more than doubled its broadband subscriber base in the last three months, keeping it on track to achieve profitability by the end of next year, the company has announced.

Sometimes the growth of an organisation's IT management systems over time resembles the spread of a culture in a petrie dish. Intensely populated colonies appear; filaments branch out from them to other colonies, until a labyrinth of connections is created. Some nodes die off; others spring up to replace them, and the whole thing is in a constant state of flux.

There are three magic words that make virtual private networks (VPNs) a welcome offering for channel companies: cost, speed and security. Located on an existing router, firewall, or in a standalone box, VPNs use encryption to send information over the public Internet as though it were a private connection. In their youth, VPN tools were aimed at the high-end enterprise market and failed to spark much of an interest in the SME sector until smaller scaleable offerings began to appear.

Victoria-based Datafast Telecommunications will sell its Warrnambool business system solutions arm to expand its Lucent ATM/voice over IP network nationally.

PSINet Inc., a global provider of Internet solutions and services, has made a 40 percent direct investment in two local Internet service providers (ISPs), Iphil Communications Network Inc. and I-next, and merged their operations under the corporate umbrella of PSINet Philippines.

In three years time AAPT's former satellite business, AAPT Sat-Tel, expects to generate almost half its revenues from the broadcast market, an area it is yet to compete in.