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littlekorea writes:
Hurricane Sandy provided yet another example of the resilience inherit in the design of the internet. While some data centres and internet services failed, communications for the most part remained robust. That whole internet thing is worth fighting for.
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littlekorea writes:
The independent ombudsman in the Australian state of Victoria has handed a report to Parliament which reveals that the state's IT shared services agency took bribes and rigged tenders, with individual employees attempting to solicit hundreds of thousands of dollars from vendors for favourable treatment.
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littlekorea writes:
IBM has been stripped of a $23 million contract to provide security tools for Australia's personally controlled electronic health records project after failing to deliver an adequate system. The authentication system will now be built by an internal Government department.
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littlekorea writes:
US Law Enforcement has finally caught up with the perpetrators of the global Microsoft support scam, fining two US entities and blocking the domain names and phone numbers of 14 companies and 17 individuals operating out of India. The cost of the scam, which has been targeting victims for close to two years, is anticipated to be in the tens of millions.
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littlekorea writes:
A report by Australia's SC Magazine has found that half of the top 30 paid apps on Apple's App Store last week were cracked within 24 hours of release, using simple drag-and-drop style tools. The problem is of a scale that will undoubtedly send many developers broke.
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littlekorea writes:
A new study has urged CIOs to consider open source over proprietary software or public cloud services when replacing legacy gear. But the study's author warns that open source won't be a cure-all for some companies.
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littlekorea writes:
A very large quantity of outbound emails from legitimate IP addresses have been mistakenly blocked by the Cisco IronPort (SenderBase) web reputation service this week. Cisco engineers have confirmed a misconfiguration over the weekend caused the SenderBase service to give poor reputations to many businesses, particularly those using shared web servers or connecting small business server to a local ISP.
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littlekorea writes:
Australia's Fortescue Metals has ported its applications off VMware vSphere and replaced all of its Cisco switches and routers to protest against licensing price hikes. The company's outspoken CIO is encouraging other tech buyers to revolt whenever vendors can't deliver on service promises.
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littlekorea writes:
Australia's largest telco is embarking on an ambitious program to migrate 4.2 million email users from its own propreitary platform to Microsoft's Windows Live cloud service. Telstra has the largest internet and email subscriber base in the country. It expects the migration to be completed by the end of the year.
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littlekorea writes:
The arrest of MegaUploads staff in New Zealand over alleged copyright violations raises some serious questions for any foreign company investing in US cloud services. Namely, does US terrirtory extend to cyberspace? What crime would be grounds for extradition from NZ to the US? What constitutes racketeering in an intellectual property case? And is Twitter or Google next? Legal experts give their view.
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littlekorea writes:
Web surfers in Europe might soon be asked to 'flag' for law enforcement follow-up any web content they suspect incites terrorism, under an plan a group of EU governments has put to the internet industry. The plan asks for ISPs, search engines, web hosts and everyday users to play a larger role in identifying suspect content. Google already has a similar feature on YouTube — will we see it in the browser?
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littlekorea writes:
Australia's telecommunications regulator has ruled that one of the country's largest broadcasters, Channel 7, did not breach the industry code of conduct by lifting photos of deceased persons and minors from social networking site Facebook. Significantly, the regulator noted that it doesn't have the legal authority to crack down on broadcasters that lift material tagged as 'private', looking to the Attorney General to provide some legal clarity.
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littlekorea writes:
The founders of P2P services Kazaa and StreamCast have filed suit against Google/YouTube, Amazon, VMware, EMC, Dropbox, Caringo and NEC over cloud computing patents. Weiss (StreamCast/Morpheus) and Burmeister (Kazaa) has originally planned to target hosted music services but widened the scope considerably. The suit is filed in East Texas, home of the patent troll.
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littlekorea writes:
The growth in peer-to-peer file sharing surged in response to efforts by the content industry to litigate over the past decade, according to a new study by a researcher at Melbourne's Monash University. Dr Rebecca Giblin explains why 'physical world' assumptions don't apply to the online world.
