Sunday | 20 July, 2008
Stories by: Darren Pauli
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IM,Skype a beacon in QLD blackout 18/07/2008 16:44:30
In a classic case of ingenuity and adaptability, university students stranded by this week's [[artid:795451093|Optus network failure in Queensland|new]] have taken to Instant Messaging (IM) and Skype to talk interstate. - +
Bush is a $10B thorn for NBN 18/07/2008 15:58:22
Rolling fibre out to the bush could cost up to $10 billion, almost as much as laying the cables across every Australian capital, according to Telstra. - +
Council owns up to Optus' QLD IP blackout 17/07/2008 15:16:31
Gold Coast City Council has today been revealed as the culprit behind [[ArtId:27252105|this week's Optus outage|new]] after excavations in a Queensland state water project severed an interstate fibre cable. - +
Optus sorry for meltdown, compensation could follow 16/07/2008 16:10:21
Optus customers cut-off by the Queensland telecommunications black-out yesterday may be able to seek compensation from the company. - +
Optus phone, mobile, Internet downed by QLD hoe 15/07/2008 11:58:26
Optus has confirmed its major fibre cables in Queensland have been severed in a [[artid:1408978410|construction mishap|new]], cutting Internet connections, PSTN and mobile phone services to more than one million customers. - +
ISPs squabble over cheap DSL access: Telstra 15/07/2008 19:08:28
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are drawing swords over access to dirt-cheap exchanges, according to Telstra, in a display reminiscent of a "David Jones fire sale". - +
Optus, Primus QLD links cut, phones down 15/07/2008 10:31:25
Optus and Primus fibre cables in Queensland have been severed in a construction accident, cutting the Internet connections to potentially thousands of customers. - +
ACCC cracks open Telstra exchanges 14/07/2008 15:00:53
Telstra will have to provide reasons for denying competitors access to exchanges after the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruled it must show detailed records of DSL provisioning. - +
Internode cuts power bills with winter chill, virtualisation 14/07/2008 11:31:33
Internode will open its third datacentre in Adelaide later this year after its second facility reached maximum capacity faster than expected. - +
Ousted VMware CEO no concern to users 11/07/2008 13:31:45
The abrupt ousting|new of VMware co-founder and CEO Diane Greene may have occurred through a plot worthy of Elizabethan treachery but analysts say there is no need for users to worry. - +
WA schools to get next-gen education 10/07/2008 07:24:09
Parents and teachers across Western Australia will need to get tech savvy under a massive Web 2.0 facelift of the state's 768 public schools.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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