Tuesday, February 24, 2009

IT News HeadLines (iTNews Australia) 24/02/2009



Westpac puts reality check on Web 2.0
Westpac has revealed that changing business conditions and poor adoption forced it to abandon or shelve some of its highest-profile Enterprise 2.0 projects.
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Researcher builds home-made Adobe flaw patch
A researcher at threat management firm Sourcefire has published a home-made patch for the flaw that Adobe warned about on Friday.
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Jobs to miss his first annual shareholders meeting
Steve Jobs will not be attending Apple’s annual shareholder’s meeting later this month, the first time he has missed the event.
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Alcatel Lucent revamps Sydney learning centre
Alcatel Lucent opened a new learning facility in Sydney today that will benefit Telstra employees among other telco customers.
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Cut price outsourcing complicates value drive
Continuous improvement methodologies like Six Sigma are being written into the management structures governing outsourcing contracts in an attempt to forge closer ties between the parties involved.
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Adelaide Uni offers Gmail to 16000 students
The University of Adelaide has increased e-mailbox limits for 16,000 students from 250MB up to a potential 7GB after inking a “non-financial arrangementâ€‌ with Google.
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Federal Government slammed for killing Telstra FTTN
Telstra has blamed the Trade Practices Act for stalling a “multi-billion dollar upgradeâ€‌ of its fixed network to fibre-to-the-node and for killing off network investment in Australia generally.
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Soldier pay bungle blamed on Defence ICT
Australia’s Minister for Defence Joel Fitzgibbon has blamed a legacy of chronic underinvestment in ICT for a series of payroll problems embarrassing the Government.
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Ireland's largest ISP to block file-sharing sites
Irish ISP Eircom has agreed to block Internet users from accessing some file-sharing web sites in an agreement reached with the music industry.
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Ex-employees walking out the door with corporate data
More than half of workers who left their jobs last year have admitted that they took confidential corporate information with them, according to research by security giant Symantec.
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EMC adds NS line to Celerra
EMC has added a line of storage systems to its Celerra NAS range that boast advanced file de-duplication and file retention capabilities.
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VirtenSys unveils I/O virtualisation switches
Enterprises can now reduce operating costs and simplify management by using I/O virtualisation (IOV), according to startup VirtenSys.
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Citrix helps Microsoft scale out Hyper-V
Microsoft and Citrix have opened a new chapter in their partnership with the announcement of tools to help enterprises scale up and manage virtual machine deployments based on Microsoft's Hyper-V technology.
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Microsoft reveals details of Gazelle browser
Microsoft researchers are working on a new browser called Gazelle which it promises will have some impressive new features and capabilities.
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