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Article | 21/03/2000 Worldlingo -- The lingua franca of cyberspace
Queensland-based translation website Worldlingo.com will attempt to lure online business by providing free automated translations over the net.
Article | 21/03/2000 BHP gives employees cheap net access
BHP will spend $5 million on supplying its own employees with PC and internet use, as part of the Federal Government's "Rural and Regional Renewal" in...
Article | 21/03/2000 Moreton Bay Ventures acquired by US-based Linux vendor
Moreton Bay Ventures has been snapped up by acquisitive US-based vendor Lineo, a company keen to squeeze Linux onto small handheld devices.
Article | 21/03/2000 Time out for AOL and AAPT
Share trading in telecommunications giant AAPT was halted this morning after the company revealed it is in discussions with AOL "concerning AOL Austra...
Article | 21/03/2000 A Hacker's Final Exam: Federal Systems
More and more cybervandals are turning their attention to U.S. federal government networks to test their virus-development skills and prove their hack...
Article | 20/03/2000 UPDATE: Worm hasn't turned on Australia yet
A new worm believed to have infected some IT companies is not expected to proliferate outside the IT industry, according to a security expert from Com...
Article | 20/03/2000 Online Government: Act One
While the National Party continued to raise concerns over the quality and availability of communications technology in the bush this week, the Federal...
Article | 20/03/2000 Toshiba's Satellite crashes and burns
PC vendor Toshiba has confirmed that up to 1000 of its locally manufactured Satellite notebooks have been affected by a faulty Celeron chip.
Article | 20/03/2000 Solutions giant snags more deals
Ever-expanding IT solutions company Solution 6 is set to loosen its belt another notch after announcing it intends to swallow up Sausage Software in a...
Article | 20/03/2000 Database Programmer Arrested for Attack
Abdelkader Smires, 31, an employee at Internet Trading Technologies (ITTI) in New York, was being held without bail this week for allegedly launching ...
Article | 20/03/2000 Feds ID Hacker Who Stole 485k Credit-Card Numbers
Law enforcement officials said they've tracked down a foreign hacker who they allege stole more than 485,000 credit-card numbers and saved them on a U...
Article | 17/03/2000 McAfee Tools Cover Your Digital Back
Guard Dog and Personal Firewall can protect the kids and the PC.
Article | 17/03/2000 Crafting the Next PC Interface
Experts agree: There must be a better way to 'talk' to a computer.
Article | 17/03/2000 Army on Hacker Alert
The U.S. Army has placed its cyberdefense teams on full alert after a known hacker group threatened to take down the Army's World Wide Web home page t...
Article | 17/03/2000 Secret Service, Citicorp Team to Fight Fraud
The U.S. Secret Service and Citicorp, a unit of New York-based Citigroup, are working together to develop a pilot program to fight identity theft and ...
Article | 17/03/2000 One.Tel gets slice of spectrum despite ASX cautioning
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has said it is not concerned the second largest portion of the 1.8GHz spectrum has been awarded to a com...
Article | 17/03/2000 Adacel secures Red Hat favouritism
Adacel Technologies has released ecommerce security products for Red Hat Linux, including certificate authority software CertEntity, and an X.500 data...
Article | 17/03/2000 Ozbuy.com adds WAP and WING to offerings
Online business store ozbuy.com has added Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Networking (WING) to its offerings.
Article | 17/03/2000 'Melting Worm' slithers into the wild
A new worm now "in the wild" has the potential to shut down Windows platforms and make the operating system permanently unusable.
Article | 16/03/2000 Exploring the Computing Continuum
Intel forum ponders a networked future with intuitive computers in cars and clothes.

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