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Article | 18/06/2008 Socceroos to kick off Foxtel's foray into HD TV

Foxtel will officially launch its new high definition television service on Sunday night when it broadcasts the Socceroos World Cup qualifying match a...

Article | 18/06/2008 Apple lifts lid on first Australian retail store

Apple's first Australian retail store, which opens Thursday evening, will be the second largest of its 215 stores across the globe, the company reveal...

Article | 16/06/2008 Paid maternity leave will combat skills crisis: APESMA

Six months paid maternity leave is one way to curb the high female churn rates in the engineering field, claims the Association of Professional Engine...

Article | 19/05/2008 Cybercrime Convention will benefit Australia, says proponent

The Convention on Cybercrime is the work of the Council of Europe and is aimed at facilitating international cooperation in the investigation and pros...

Article | 6/05/2008 Despite iPhone rumours, users still stuck with their POMPs

Local IT industry rags and tabloid media have been abuzz this past week with 'news' that Apple will launch the iPhone in Australia in June.

Article | 30/04/2008 Phishing scam mimics NSW fraud squad to snare victims

A telephone phishing scam, which purports to come from the NSW Police Force, has surfaced in NSW over the past 24 hours.

Article | 11/04/2008 MySpace opens up its platform to external developers

MySpace has launched the MySpace Developer Platform site which will allow external software developers the chance to build applications for its users.

Article | 8/04/2008 Google gives Web developers a leg up with App Engine

Google is giving 10,000 developers the chance to create and run their Web applications on its infrastructure with the launch Tuesday of a preview rele...

Article | 8/04/2008 Open source key to Al Jazeera's Web 2.0 success

It has been maligned by the US administration because it has given a voice to its public enemy number one: Osama bin Laden, but Al Jazeera's motto of ...

Article | 2/04/2008 Government kills OPEL broadband network

The federal government has terminated the funding for the OPEL broadband network.

Article | 26/03/2008 Google's Schmidt has his head stuck in the cloud

Changes to Google Apps over the coming year will entice more businesses to jump over to the delivery of applications over the internet, says Google CE...

Article | 25/03/2008 Schmidt describes YouTube upload rate as "disturbing"

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has joked that the rate of video being uploaded to YouTube is "disturbing".

Article | 12/03/2008 Aussie uptake of Facebook soars by 1000% in the past year

Australians have gone Facebook crazy. In the past year the number of user accounts on the social networking site has increased by over 1000 per cent t...

Article | 28/02/2008 Eftel: 50Mbs broadband coming soon, ADSL2+ even sooner

Eftel will be able to offer customers average down and upload speeds of 50Mbs through its new super fast VDSL2 broadband service as early as April, pr...

Article | 15/02/2008 Nanotech T-shirt can recharge MP3 player

Nanotechnology researchers have developed a shirt that brings new meaning to the slogan power to the people. They claim that what you wear may soon be...