Wednesday, February 17, 2010

IT News HeadLines (AustralianIT) 18/02/2010


AustralianIT.com.au
Chief spruiks plans for iiNet expansion
LISTED Perth-based internet service provider iiNet is expected to update the market on its plans to offer internet television.
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Conroy digs himself a hole in outback
THE $43 billion broadband rollout finally hit the Australian mainland yesterday, in a remote corner of the bush about as far away from anywhere Stephen Conroy could get.
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Students threaten teachers on net
FACEBOOK is at the centre of another row over website security
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Google phone translates German menu
GOOGLE boss Eric Schmidt showed off phone software that could translate words in a foreign language dinner menu snapped by a phone camera.
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Google selling 60,000 Androids a day
Google chief Eric Schmidt said the internet giant's Android mobile operating system is now being used on 26 phone models and 60,000 phones using Android are sold every day.
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Hackers target smartphones
Smartphones are under a growing menace from cyber-criminals seeking to hack into web-connected handsets, but the mobile industry has contained the threat so far, security experts said.
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NBN fibre dig begins in Mt Isa
Work began in Queensland mining town Mt Isa today on the first fibre backbone links that will haul data around the rural edge of the government’s ambitious $43 billion national broadband network project.
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Tech failure makes UN miss health targets
THE UN's ambitious aims of eliminating poverty and disease are way off track as government and industry fail to reap the benefits of technology.
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