$20b feud with Telstra drove NBN’s birth
It is already the most expensive infrastructure project in Australia’s history, and it seems the final cost of the National Broadband Network could blow out by billions. Tonight’s Four Corners program...
View ArticleThe 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6
Carolyn Duffy Marsan writes for Network World: “For 15 years, Internet engineers and policymakers have been publicizing the need to upgrade the ‘Net’s current addressing scheme — known as IPv4 — to...
View ArticleLinux: A Cautionary Tale
There are times in which the humble webcomic grants us wisdom otherwise attainable only by personal experience. Where would the world be without XKCD?  The post Linux: A...
View ArticleUbuntu Unity DUI – Division by User Interface
We may agree to disagree – alas, for most of us, it is a shame to see Ubuntu’s desktop edition entirely dropping GNOME. Despite being around since 2010, word about Unity has not been particuly...
View ArticleIt’s not a Kindle, it’s not a scrap, it is an Android e-ink Paperphone
E-ink. The most underrated display technology – there is little it can’t do and much that it can, for weeks from a single charge. The latest to come from the Human Media Lab at Canada’s Queen’s...
View ArticleDirty Jobs in IT
Aah, I.T. A white-collar industry (or crew neck on Transformers t-shirt day) but a grim, grim place behind the closed doors of the Reynholm Industries basement out of plain sight. From digging through...
View ArticleLingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language
Evan Ackerman writes for the Automation blog: When robots talk to each other, they’re not generally using language as we think of it, with words to communicate both concrete and abstract concepts. Now...
View ArticleDomains around the world
For infograph nuts and the plain curious, check out Bytelevel’s Domain Name map of ccTLDs ’round the world. Font size and population correlate to the quantity of netizens’ registered domain addresses –...
View ArticleTroy Hunt’s “a brief Sony password analysis”
So the Sony saga continues. As if the whole thing about 77 million breached PlayStation Network accounts wasn’t bad enough, numerous other security breaches in other Sony services have followed in the...
View ArticleHacking Senate.gov: Boss lulz or famous last words?
Kevin Fogarty writes for ITWorld: Here’s a great way to make friends in high places: Hack their server. LulzSec — which has been making inroads into Anonymous’ griefer market share with aggressively...
View Article*nix users rejoyce, über sudo on the way
Joab Jackson writes for Computerworld: Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys, that will offer...
View ArticleInternet Censorship Trial starts next month (Optus/Telstra)
A highly controversial issue which has experienced loud and vocal scrutiny has managed to creep up quietly on the horizon. As many of us know, any form media censorship may be abused, including...
View ArticleExclusive: Inside Equinix’s Sydney3 data centre
Equinix has started accepting the first customer equipment in stage one of its new Sydney3 (SY3) data centre. The $77 million first stage was in “final commissioning” during iTnews’ tour of the...
View ArticleSwiss party makes dislike of PowerPoint a political issue
Peter Sayer writes for IDG News: Switzerland’s Anti-PowerPoint Party wants a referendum on banning the use of presentation software. Many people dislike PowerPoint, Microsoft’s ubiquitous application...
View ArticleChina tempted as Facebook prepares to float
The Chinese government is looking into buying a stake in Facebook, ahead of the social network’s widely expected initial public stock offering in 2012. The possible investment, which was reported by...
View ArticleFlash Player 11 – native support for x64 Linux
Linux users rejoyce! Native x64 Flash player has come. Click on the link below the break for specs and installation instructions. http://digitizor.com/2011/07/14/flash-11-64-bit-linux/...
View ArticleAs New Data Center Opens, Equinix Looks to Expand
(The Hosting News) – Data center and colocation provider Equinix recently opened a new data center in Sydney, Australia, expanding on the company’s already established presence in the city (Equinix...
View ArticlePolice help Apple hunt for missing iPhone prototype
San Francisco police have assisted Apple in the search for a prototype of the latest iPhone that went astray in a bar in a repeat of an embarrassing loss that took place last year. An Apple employee...
View ArticleAvoiding the 4 Most Common Security Mistake
Just because it’s small doesn’t mean your business is immune to security breaches and hacker attacks. In fact, small businesses tend to be even more at risk, because they are less likely to take steps...
View ArticlePrivacy in Ubuntu 12.10: Amazon Ads and Data Leaks
EFF says that Ubuntu 12.10 is a major privacy problem for its users. It collects lots of data (including your search results) and send it to 3rd party such as Facebook, Twitter, BBC and Amazon. Every...
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