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    Iranian Cyber Army moves into botnets

    25 October, 2010 22:45
    The same group that defaced TechCrunch's website appears to be running a botnet
    A group of malicious hackers who attacked Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu are also apparently running a for-rent botnet, according to new research.
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    Adobe AIR breathes life into RIM PlayBook app development

    25 October, 2010 21:50
    Adobe AIR 2.5 allows for more advanced applications on smartphones, netbooks, tablets -- and TVs too
    Adobe has released version 2.5 of its Air runtime environment, which will be used to develop applications for Research In Motion's (RIM) upcoming tablet PlayBook, Adobe and RIM said on Monday at the MAX conference in Los Angeles.
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    Vocus acquisition nets E3 Networks data centres

    25 October, 2010 17:40
    data centre deal worth $5.9 million
    Telecommunications wholesaler, Vocus Communications (ASX:VOC) has entered an agreement with E3 Networks to buy the company’s data centre business in Sydney and Melbourne.
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    Macquarie Telecom to invest $60 million in new Sydney data centre

    25 October, 2010 17:00
    Intellicentre 2 in North Ryde to expand company's future hosting capacity needs
    Macquarie Telecom (ASX:MAQ) has announced plans to invest $60 million in building a new data centre following its recent purchase of an existing building and a block of land in North Ryde, Sydney.
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    WA police using aerial video to fight crime

    25 October, 2010 16:47
    Footage saves resources, leads to convictions
    Western Australian (WA) Police is reporting resource savings and police safety improvements since aerial real time video was introduced in July.
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    Australian Vintage moves to improved distribution service model

    25 October, 2010 15:16
    Mobile workforce sees benefits in six weeks
    Local wine distributor, Australian Vintage, has moved to an improved distribution service model in an attempt to better connect its mobile workforce.
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    Google "mortified" by amount of personal info in Street View data

    25 October, 2010 12:12
    The search giant has implemented a number of new privacy and security measures to mitigate against future repeats
    Five months after "mistakenly" collecting "fragmented" data from home networks via its Street View cars, Google has confirmed that private emails, Web addresses as well as passwords were among the data captured.
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    Qantas adopts RFID for domestic baggage checks

    25 October, 2010 11:41
    Seeks to reduce domestic check-in times through radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to be placed on frequent flyers' baggage
    Australian airline, Qantas (ASX:QAN) has penned a four-year deal with Unisys to provide a Baggage Reconciliation System (BRS) for its Australian domestic flights, to begin on 10 November.
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    Windows transition a long process for Screen Australia

    25 October, 2010 11:23
    Project started in 2009 won’t be completed until 2011
    Government agency Screen Australia’s decision to move its desktop infrastructure from Apple to Windows has taken longer than expected due to challenges with managing disparate IT systems.
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    IT managers consumed by complicated systems: CTO

    25 October, 2010 11:03
    Open source key to IT innovation
    Striking a balance between the needs of IT managers and software developers will lead to greater innovation in the IT space, a CTO has claimed.
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    Big Iron 'not dead': BMC

    25 October, 2010 08:00
    Mainframes the Greenest platform available for data centres, the company claims
    Despite growth in alternatives to mainframes, big iron will not vanish from data centres any time soon, BMC has claimed.
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    Verizon iPhone rumour won't die

    24 October, 2010 09:43
    The hints are in the help wanted ads; Verizon is hiring tech support for an iPhone-like gadget.
    Gasp, another Verizon iPhone rumor surfaced this week.
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    How to take screenshots on an Android phone

    24 October, 2010 00:34
    Here's how to use your Mac or PC to save a picture of your Android phone screen.
    You're probably used to pressing PrintScreen (Windows) or Command-Shift-3 (Mac OS X) to capture occasional computer screenshots. But the operation is not so easy on an Android phone. What if you want to taunt a friend with proof of an online game victory, record a strange error message, teach a relative how to perform a task, or capture an image for your blog? You can still do it, but you'll have to walk through a few more steps.
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    Beware fake Microsoft security essentials

    23 October, 2010 08:51
    Microsoft Security Essentials is a legitimate antimalware app, but a new rogue antivirus attack hijacks the brand as well
    Microsoft Security Essentials is fake. Well, it is and it isn't. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antimalware protection program from Microsoft, but a new malware threat identified by security software vendor F-Secure is also masquerading as Microsoft Security Essentials. You want to avoid that one.
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    iPhone passes Blackberry in global shipments

    23 October, 2010 08:49
    Apple makes inroads into business, shipping 15.4 million iPhones worldwide to beat RIM.
    In the race for worldwide smartphone dominance, Apple has finally passed Research In Motion. During this year's third quarter, 15.4 million iPhones were shipped globally compared to only 12.4 million Blackberries, the researchers at Strategy Analytics reported yesterday.
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    Google to tighten privacy policies after Wi-Fi fiasco

    23 October, 2010 08:19
    Google is also acknowledging it intercepted and stored the full text of e-mail messages
    Under fire for months over its capture of people's Wi-Fi traffic data, Google has announced several steps aimed at preventing similar missteps in the future.
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    HTML5 makes maths easy

    23 October, 2010 08:06
    The W3C has updated its standard for representing mathematical notation on the Web
    The W3C has updated its MathML standard for rendering mathematical notation on Web pages to better portray basic math symbols, as well as render mathematic symbols in more languages.
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    NTT takes foothold in Africa with Dimension Data

    23 October, 2010 07:23
    NTT is buying the company for US$3. 24 billion
    Japanese mobile operator NTT is finally moving to invest in Africa's lucrative telecom market, completing the buyout of South Africa's Dimension Data.
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    Happy birthday Windows 7: Inside 7 big enterprise rollouts

    23 October, 2010 04:52
    Happy birthday to an OS that debuted in the worst of a recession and went on to exceed expectations, racking up approximately 240 million licenses to date.
    Light up the candles. Windows 7 turns 1 today. Happy birthday to an OS that debuted in the worst of a recession and went on to exceed expectations, racking up approximately 240 million licenses to date.
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    Apple: Still pushing industry forward

    23 October, 2010 04:29
    Apple, actually Steve Jobs, put on another big show this week. The well attended and very well covered show was vintage Apple. Remarkable showmanship with a reasonable amount of actual content.
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