Friday, February 27, 2009

IT News HeadLines (iTNews Australia) 27/02/2009



Analysis: 3G spectrum holdings cloud Voda-Hutch merger
Will the Australian operations of Vodafone and Hutchison be forced to offload 3G spectrum as part of their proposed merger?
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JB Hi-Fi caught selling used phones as new
JB Hi-Fi claims a 'procedural error' led to one of its stores selling used mobile phones as new - a glitch that has seen the retailer dragged over the coals by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission.
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Fed Govt rolls out $13.8m TelePresence network
Federal Government ministers will need to defer some 20,000 flights to see a return on investment from today's purchase of 20 TelePresence units from Cisco and Telstra.
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Adobe posts fix for Flash
Adobe has posted a security fix for its Flash multimedia browser plug-in.
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Dell profits take nose dive
Dell announced a fresh round of cuts Thursday in the aftermath of a rough fiscal quarter.
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Satellite service fights bill shock with quota warnings
A local satellite mobile broadband provider actually proactively warns its customers when they start downloading abnormal amounts of data and offers to shift them to a better value plan to save money.
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NEC and Telstra win $1.6 million Sheriffs deal
NEC and Telstra have won a $1.6 million tender to supply a converged communications platform for the Victorian Sheriffs Office at the Victorian Department of Justice.
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New dawn for CRN
Haymarket Media is set to re-shape Australian IT channel publishing with the May 4 reboot of its CRN portfolio.
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Nokia looking to build laptops
Nokia is “looking very activelyâ€‌ at getting into the laptop market, according to the company’s chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
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Researchers make programming breakthrough
Researchers have developed a software tool which makes the translation of code for global markets faster.
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Opinion: Time for IT service's industrial revolution
Service providers that have embraced industrialised service delivery will prosper in the recession, writes the Bathwick Group's Katy Ring.
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Gary McKinnon dealt new blow by CPS
British hacker Gary McKinnon's hopes of being tried in the UK were dealt a massive blow today, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced it would not bring charges against him.
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Security chiefs urged to take joined-up approach
IT security needs to be more closely aligned with other corporate security functions, with an individual role co-ordinating and monitoring converged enterprise risk, according to a new benchmarking study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Juniper Networks foresees single data centre fabric
Juniper Networks has laid out its roadmap for future plans to develop a next-generation data centre fabric, including hardware, software and technology infrastructure.
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Pirate Bay 'not directly linked' to industry damage
Lawyers acting for BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay have argued that there is no connection between illicit downloads and lost sales in the music industry.
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Bushfire victims offered broadband guarantee
Victims of Victoria's devastating bushfires and recent floods in Queensland may be eligible for the Australian Broadband Guarantee, according to Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
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Telstra targets PSTN revenue revival as usage drops
Telstra said it will try to increase calls terminating on its PSTN network in an effort to counter declining volumes as people cut their usage to save money.
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Microsoft fixes IE 8 for new Windows
Microsoft has issued a fix for Internet Explorer 8 contained in the Windows 7 beta.
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Steve Jobs on target to return to Apple
Apple directors have said that Steve Jobs is expected to return to his leadership of the company in June as scheduled after his six month break.
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HP and Sun ink Solaris deal
Sun and HP have agreed to a new deal which will see the Solaris software platform offered on HP's servers.
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