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Reckon's revenues rising 09 February, 2010 13:43
Financial software company posts positive preliminary resultsReckon (ASX:RKN) has released its preliminary results recording a 42 per cent year on year increase in operating revenues to $85.3 million for the financial year to December 31, 2009. - +
Rudd: Quigley doing “a great job” 09 February, 2010 14:25
PM defends NBN Co recruitment process after appointment of former labor MP to company was slammedPrime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended the NBN Co recruitment process, saying it made an independent decision to hire Mike Kaiser as its government relations officer. - +
NBN Co to up headcount as Kaiser appointment slammed 09 February, 2010 12:13
Executive chairman reveals company developments at Senate hearingThe company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network (NBN) is expected to announce shortly some “first-release” sites to trial the high-speed fibre network infrastructure and test construction techniques. - +
Victoria to tip in $3M to spy on bushfires 09 February, 2010 12:03
Locally developed Eyefi cameras to transmit capture images over Telstra's Next-G network with ForestWatch application to perform analysis to identify smokeVictoria’s troubled bushfire alert system may be bolstered with a fleet of fire-detection cameras after a $3 million government trial announced today is completed. - +
Australian airports to deploy body scanning technology 09 February, 2010 17:20
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced a $200 million boost to airport securityThe attempted terrorist attack aboard a US-bound Christmas Day flight has prompted the Federal Government to introduce body scanning technology at international airports, as part of a $200 million airport security boost. - +
Exetel stops disconnecting pirates 09 February, 2010 15:56
Looser copyright policy in wake of AFACT v iiNet decisionExetel will stop blocking customer accounts linked to copyright infringement as a result of last week's failed lawsuit against Internet Service Provider (ISP) iiNet.
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Rudd non-committal on copyright law change chances 09 February, 2010 07:48
Prime Minister deflects copyright question on ABC's Q&A programPrime Minister Kevin Rudd has shied away from committing to legislative change to copyright enforcement in the wake of the AFACT v iiNet decision at the Federal Court of Australia last week. - +
Victorian ESTA to upgrade core network 08 February, 2010 17:31
Growing demand for services from the state's Emergency Services Telecommunications AuthorityThe Victorian Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (ESTA) has announced it is running a Core Network Services project aimed at integrating four of the organisation’s major sites.
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Rudd: Quigley doing “a great job” 09 February, 2010 14:25
PM defends NBN Co recruitment process after appointment of former labor MP to company was slammedPrime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended the NBN Co recruitment process, saying it made an independent decision to hire Mike Kaiser as its government relations officer. - +
Reckon's revenues rising 09 February, 2010 13:43
Financial software company posts positive preliminary resultsReckon (ASX:RKN) has released its preliminary results recording a 42 per cent year on year increase in operating revenues to $85.3 million for the financial year to December 31, 2009.
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CA brings SOA security to open source JBoss 09 February, 2010 10:08
More commercial options for widely-used app serverCA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform. - +
Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA 09 January, 2010 05:40
Union Pacific builds a more nimble network that cuts staff training time and gives customers more shipment visibilityAt the heart of Union Pacific Corp.'s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that's been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years. According to industry experts, it was a pioneering system when first introduced, and it made the Omaha-based transportation giant one of the first companies in the world to make extensive use of online transaction processing technologies.
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Australian airports to deploy body scanning technology 09 February, 2010 17:20
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced a $200 million boost to airport securityThe attempted terrorist attack aboard a US-bound Christmas Day flight has prompted the Federal Government to introduce body scanning technology at international airports, as part of a $200 million airport security boost. - +
CA brings SOA security to open source JBoss 09 February, 2010 10:08
More commercial options for widely-used app serverCA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform.
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IBM launches eight-core Power7 processor, servers 09 February, 2010 07:43
Big Blue comes out with new servers and processorsIBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time. - +
BlueLock's cloud services aim at large and small 09 February, 2010 04:52
The infrastructure-as-a-service provider is offering four tiers of services targeting companies of all sizesBlueLock, a little-known cloud-computing services provider, is rolling out a suite of services aimed at a wide range of customers, it announced Monday.
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Reckon's revenues rising 09 February, 2010 13:43
Financial software company posts positive preliminary resultsReckon (ASX:RKN) has released its preliminary results recording a 42 per cent year on year increase in operating revenues to $85.3 million for the financial year to December 31, 2009. - +
Queensland to make health data available online 09 February, 2010 07:28
Govt to publish critical information about emergency departments onlineThe Queensland Government has tackled a new idea which will see critical data about the State’s hospital emergency departments made available to the public online.
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Acronis goes gratis with Backup and Recovery 10 Deduplication solution 04 February, 2010 12:17
Offers free deduplication solution to customersStorage management and disaster recovery vendor, Acronis, is offering customers a taste of its deduplication solution, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, for free. - +
CommVault launches Cloud-optimised software 04 February, 2010 14:35
Solution aims to help migration of data into and out of public and private cloudsData protection and storage company, CommVault, is shipping an integrated cloud storage connector for its Simpana software that will enable customers to move on-premises backup and archive data into, and out of, private and public cloud storage.
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Patent office to review VoIP patent 08 February, 2010 08:42
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says C2's wide-ranging patent is invalidThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP. - +
Cisco adding iPhone app for voice-over-Wi-Fi 04 February, 2010 13:18
Growing iPhone use spurs efforts to expand unified communications techCisco Systems Inc. plans to add voice-over-Wi-Fi capabilities to its existing iPhone app by April, part of a continuing effort to expand its unified communications technology into the mobile space.
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Victoria to tip in $3M to spy on bushfires 09 February, 2010 12:03
Locally developed Eyefi cameras to transmit capture images over Telstra's Next-G network with ForestWatch application to perform analysis to identify smokeVictoria’s troubled bushfire alert system may be bolstered with a fleet of fire-detection cameras after a $3 million government trial announced today is completed. - +
Optus records strong Q3 growth 09 February, 2010 11:48
Record post paid customer growth, declines in fixed-line businessSingtel (ASX:SGT) is reporting its Australian subsidiary, Optus, has recorded strong growth for the quarter ending December 31, 2009.
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Broadband booms in the Naughties 18 January, 2010 16:55
But post-2010 spells mobile broadband doom as market consolidatesGlobal Internet access has exploded over the last decade from about 350 million to 1.6 billion, according to new research. More than a third of Internet users worldwide will connect via broadband, according to a BuddeComm report. About 500 million people will be on fixed-line technologies by year’s end. Almost two-thirds of users will subscribe to DSL connections, about 20 per cent via cable modem and only 10 to 15 per cent will use fibre. - +
NBN Co ponders capability statements 15 January, 2010 16:31
NBN Co, the company in charge of the Federal Government’s $43 billion National Broadband Network, has announced it received many “high-quality” responses to its request for capability statements for the supply of infrastructure. - +
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Should your IT department support the iPhone? 13 January, 2010 03:40
When the iPhone was first launched in June 2007, it was generally panned by IT managers and systems administrators.When the iPhone was first launched in June 2007, it was generally panned by IT managers and systems administrators. It didn't support any encryption of user data, could not have any enforced security policies and offered no way to remotely wipe data if it were lost or stolen. At the time, a lot of companies weren't prepared to accept those security gaps. Perhaps more importantly, the iPhone didn't yet support any third-party applications or interact with most office suites. - +
Intel CEO shows first Moorestown smartphone 08 January, 2010 13:43
Intel on Thursday showed the first smartphone based on its upcoming Moorestown platform for mobile devices. - +
Google takes wraps off Nexus One 06 January, 2010 06:13
Three years after rumors of a Google phone first surfaced, the search giant has taken the wraps off its own branded and designed mobile phone, the Nexus One.
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