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25th March 2012 Archive

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  • Mobile operators mourn death of embedded 4G

    Is that a Wi-Fi hotspot in your pocket?

    Mobile operators are giddy at the prospect of doubling, tripling or quadrupling the number of devices connected to their networks over the coming years. Next generation portable devices such as tablets, laptops, cloudbooks and Ultrabooks are seen as candidates for 3G/4G integration that will help shore up the carrier position …

    Broadband 25 Mar 2012, 10:24

  • Huawei banned from Australia’s NBN: reports

    Political games behind reports of vendor's exclusion?

    Australia’s media is swarming around the latest National Broadband Network (NBN) scandal, with the government confirming that Chinese vendor Huawei has been told not to submit tenders for the project. The ban emerged in the Australian Financial Review, which reported that the company was given the bad news in December. The …

    Policy 25 Mar 2012, 21:44

  • Proposed Oz mobile 'tower ban’ stalls

    House committee rejects bill

    Independent federal parliamentarian Andrew Wilkie has lost his bid to regulate the placement and expansion of “low impact” mobile phone facilities, with a House of Representatives committee unanimously rejecting his bill. Wilkie’s legislation, which purported to improve community consultation over low impact mobile facilities …

    Networks 25 Mar 2012, 22:15

  • Chrome extensions malware hijacks Facebook profiles

    Chrome Web Store falls to Brazilian whacks

    Kaspersky Lab has found malware-laden Chrome extensions, along with a criminal gang playing cat and mouse with Google by releasing several variations of its wares. The attacks manifest as suggestions to download Facebook apps. Those apps are, alas, not real. Instead they are malware and, in one case, a malware-laden Chrome …

    Security 25 Mar 2012, 22:17

  • Senators chime in on employers’ Facebook snooping

    May break federal laws, say Blumenthal and Schumer

    The row over employers’ demanding the Facebook logins of staff has widened further, with two US senators asking whether such demands would break federal laws. Senators Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal have asked the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to launch a federal investigation into …

    Jobs 25 Mar 2012, 22:28

  • Reckon dumps Intuit for local strategy

    Global cloud does not add up

    ASX listed accounting software company Reckon has severed ties with US-based Quickbooks supplier Intuit, following a falling out over strategic direction and hosting priorities. Reckon and Intuit secured an alliance in 2010 for the marketing and distribution of Intuit’s range of desktop products which included a termination …

    Cloud 25 Mar 2012, 22:51

  • E-tax may return to Mac OS

    Capgemini asked to investigate feasibility of porting Delphi code

    Australia's Mac OS users may once again have native access to the Australian Taxation office's (ATO's) e-tax app, after the agency asked Capgemini to rummage through code for the Windows version to see if a Mac port is possible. An ATO spokesperson told Intermedium “The ATO is committed to providing a sustainable outcome for …

    Policy 25 Mar 2012, 23:00

  • Primus getsB2B approval on NBN

    First RSP certified

    NBN Co has given Primus Australia the green light to be the network’s first retail service provider with B2B interoperability certification. Primus Australia is the first in a series of RSPs which will be able to provide the real time provisioning of services to customers on the NBN network. The full integration between Primus …

    Networks 25 Mar 2012, 23:06