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Low cost telcos offer malicious code

15 Oct 2008 | MIS | Michael Crawford

Telecommunications providers in developing countries are paying software designers to develop malicious computer code to illegally increase the call charge rates for internet-enabled smartphones.

Apple cuts laptop prices

15 Oct 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

Apple has unveiled the latest generation of its MacBook laptops, spruiking new aluminium housings, LED-backlit displays and lower prices.

ASIC needs spycatchers

15 Oct 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Julian Bajkowski

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission won't say if it suspects spies have been bugging its offices, but it's not taking any chances.

Google seeks TV audience for YouTube

13 Oct 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Ben Woodhead

Couch potatoes will have access to full-length episodes of popular television shows through YouTube following a tie-up between United States broadcaster CBS and the video website's owner Google.

Window of opportunity to improve the vista

11 Oct 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Ben Woodhead

Microsoft is preparing a new version of Windows that it hopes will help transform the company.

BlackBerry back with touch-screen Storm

09 Oct 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

Blackberry maker Research in Motion has unveiled the phone it hopes will take some of the shine from Apple's iPhone, the new touch-screen BlackBerry Storm.

Laptop theory for jet plunge

09 Oct 2008 | MIS.Online | AAP

Air safety investigators say it is too early to blame passenger lap-top computers for causing a Qantas jet to abruptly nose dive on a flight from Singapore to Perth.

Daylight saving trap for mobiles

02 Oct 2008 | MIS.Online | AAP

The move to a uniform roll-out of daylight saving this year could confuse your mobile phone, Telstra has warned.

Privacy concern over see-through search

02 Oct 2008 | MIS.Online | AAP

A trial of new scanning technology, which will subject travellers to a "virtual strip search", will start at Australian airports this month.

BT to keep watching you surf

01 Oct 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Ben Woodhead

UK carrier BT has reignited global concerns over the practice of tracking web surfers as they move around the internet.

Major players back mobile push

01 Oct 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

An industry group including the likes of Dell, Ericsson, Lenovo, Microsoft and Vodafone has banded together to push PCs that come ready to connect to 3G-based data services out of the box.

Exit Veritas as CBA simplifies clusters

30 Sep 2008 | MIS.Online | Rob O'Neill

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has cleaned Veritas out of the clusters it uses to deliver front office systems, opting for an Oracle-only strategy.

Flyers baulk at in-flight mobiles

29 Sep 2008 | MIS.Online | AAP

Four in five travellers say the introduction of mobile phones on planes would drive them crazy, a survey has found.

Internet killed the Blu-ray star

27 Sep 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Ben Woodhead.

With the onslaught of internet video, experts say the Blu-ray player won't be around forever, writes Ben Woodhead.

Millions switch on to IPTV

26 Sep 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

The global marketplace for video delivered via internet protocol networks is set to become increasingly crowded, as a raft of new entrants jockey for early position in a global video market .

Dick Smith seeks a TiVo turn-on

25 Sep 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Neil Shoebridge

Woolworths has given Seven Network's launch of the TiVo digital video recorder a boost, agreeing to stock the product in its 250-plus Dick Smith stores.