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• How to hack your own Wi-Fi network

  Attempting to "hack" into your own wireless network can help you spot potential Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities and figure out ways to protect against them.

• Aruba smashes security intrusions for Tennis Australia

  Tracking intrusions to the Tennis Australia network is easier this year due to an expanded partnership with Aruba Networks.

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  Authorities investigating Google data collection

  The Australian Attorney-General’s Department has called on the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to investigate Google's recent collection of data pertaining to Wi-Fi networks, and potentially private data.

• Google relents, will hand over European Wi-Fi data

  In a reversal of course, Google now says that it will give European regulators data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years.

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  Centrelink to offer free Internet access

  Centrelink visitors around Australia will soon be able to use their mobile phones and laptops to access Government websites across wireless local area networks (WLANs) while they wait to be served.

• Five reasons wireless providers should fear Google

  When Google chief executive Eric Schmidt took the stage at Mobile World Congress, it seemed that many of his remarks were meant to placate the mobile phone industry. And for good reason: Over the last year, Google has become a mobile powerhouse -- this was Schmidt's first keynote in Barcelona, after all - that, in many ways, competes with wireless service providers. The past year has seen a proliferation of Android phones and the debut of powerful mobile apps such as Google Voice and Maps Navigation. It's a good thing in that Google's driving sales, but it's also a cause for concern. Here are five reasons mobile telcos should be worried about Google:

• Netgear announces new SMB wireless network controllers

  Today, Netgear announced three new wireless network controller offerings that take some of the network management features of their enterprise products into the small-to-medium business market, including mass firmware upgrades, centralized configuration options, and load-balancing, for networks from five to 1500 users.

• 200 solar-powered network sensors to monitor rainforest

  The CSIRO will install some 200 solar-powered, sensor network nodes over the next two years to helping rehabilitate rainforest in the Springbrook World Heritage precinct in south-east Queensland, the research group announced today.

• HP scores $1.2M network deal for RNS hospital

  Hewlett-Packard has inked a $1.2 million contract to outfit a new $99 million research and education centre at the Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) with fixed and wireless networks.