Stories by: Rodney Gedda

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    Telstra Internet outage points to DNS failure 04/09/2009 05:38:00

    This week's fault that knocked out Internet access for thousands of Telstra BigPond customers was most likely related to the ISPs domain name system (DNS), according to people affected by the outage.
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    Perth joins Adelaide with $50m WiMax network 02/09/2009 14:11:00

    Following last month’s news that Adelaide will get a $3 million WiMax mobile broadband network, the Seven Network has announced plans to build a $50 million WiMax network in Perth.
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    Telstra offers Acer laptops with built-in mobile broadband 10/08/2009 09:25:00

    Telstra has added three Acer notebooks with built-in mobile broadband to [[xref:http://www.techworld.com.au/tag/nextg|its Next G device|TechWorld :: Next G]] range.
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    Telstra, Catholic schools build $146m broadband network 13/07/2009 14:05:00

    More than 1550 Catholic schools and Catholic education offices around Australia will be connected to Telstra’s network infrastructure following a two-year, $146 million broadband project announced today.
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    BHP backup drive nets data deduplication 07/07/2009 14:53:00

    Engineering and resources giant BHP Billiton has implemented hundreds of software backup systems on its server infrastructure that paves the way for data deduplication.
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    Pay as you go for security solutions 30/04/2009 14:53:00

    Antivirus and Internet security software vendor ESET will now allow end-users to pay as they go with its first foray into software as a service.
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    Linux out, Windows in at Electoral Commission 29/04/2009 12:06:00

    The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) will leave Linux for Windows Server when it develops its new vote counting and reporting application, which is slated to cost $1.4 million over the next two years.
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    Ubuntu jumps to Jaunty 9.04, adds cloud computing 24/04/2009 00:52:00

    Software company Canonical has released version 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” of its Ubuntu Linux operating system with an emphasis on cloud computing services in addition to regular feature enhancements.
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    Norfolk Island optimises satellite link to double bandwidth 16/04/2009 08:50:00

    Norfolk Telecom, the sole telecommunications provider for the remote Pacific Ocean island of Norfolk Island, has completed a WAN optimisation project for its satellite Internet connection resulting in a 100 per cent increase in its available bandwidth.
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    Twitter's ecosystem builds with job search app 14/04/2009 09:27:00

    The social media phenomenon that is Twitter continues to attract third-party developers with the London-based WorkDigital developing TwitterJobSearch, a job search engine for the microblogging service now available online (in beta, of course).
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    KOffice preps version 2.0 with first release candidate 09/04/2009 11:06:00

    The open source KOffice project has announced the availability of the first release candidate of the next generation, version 2.0, which may be the last release before the final 2.0.
 
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