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Internet users concerned about the number of virus-infected PCs ready to launch an attack over the Web can at least keep track of how afraid they should be, and satisfy their curiosity, by visiting CipherTrust's new ZombieMeter resource.

At ATA Airlines, the practice of buying refurbished storage systems started small, with the purchase of a workgroup-size disk array. Over the past six years, the US$1.2 billion airline bought more and more used storage equipment, including enterprise-size storage systems, tape libraries and eventually Fibre Channel storage-area networks. Today, "there really isn't a case where we wouldn't consider previously owned storage systems," says Paul Smith, director of information services at Indianapolis-based ATA.

For global companies developing business-critical applications, time to market is of the essence, particularly as they launch e-business initiatives. An approach that has worked in the past adding second and third shifts here at home doesn't play well these days, with skyrocketing salaries and a lack of IT talent defining the market. Increasingly, global companies are taking advantage of the fact that they have offices in multiple time zones and are expanding their development efforts by opening development centers around the world and staffing them with people who work in shared environments with U.S. teams.

UPDATE: Troubled US internet consulting company marchFIRST has called the administrators into its Australian operation, The Industry Standard has learnt. A spokesman for Arthur Andersen confirmed that it had been appointed as the voluntary administrator.

A few Internet minutes ago, it was easy to exit corporate offices with banknotes bulging from every pocket. All it required was a working knowledge of HTML, a nodding acquaintance with graphics design -- and a "you can't win it if you're not in it" mantra. Times are tougher nowadays. Web designers still in the brochure and billboard space face cut-throat competition and ever-shrinking margins. Developers morphing into the greener fields of "full-monty" e-business solutions can't breathe easy either. Hanging on them is an industry legacy of over-promises and under-deliveries.

Channel 7's online division, i7 is unsure what it will do with its domain name, olympics.com.au later this year when the Olympics madness has passed.

A million-dollar e-commerce training centre initiated by the NSW government in partnership with industry players is expected to open its doors by the end this month, or in early July.

A million dollar ecommerce training centre initiated by the NSW Government in partnership with industry players is expected to open its doors by the end this month, or in early July.

Wall Street loves a merger: Consolidation increases shareholder value by restoring the balance of supply and demand, creating synergy among products, and opening the way for ever-popular efficiencies and any number of other benefits -- or so the thinking goes.

Thirteen Australian multimedia developers have been selected to participate in Teltra's Broadband Developers Partnership. This Partnership is intended to allow developers, and their corporate customers, to develop, test and demonstrate their broadband applications real-time and online. The partners include MultiNet Interactive Web Consulting, Mainstreet Internet Services, Rhythm Media, HotHouse Interactive Productions, New Toys, TechTalk, Radiant Productions, WSA Holdings, IG Synergy, Clemengers Interactive, Creative Access, AAV Business Communications, and SAI Media.