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Business News

Groupon CEO Mason sent packing as shares continue to plummet

'I was fired today and you all know why'

Channel News

HP: We will never sell 100 per cent through the channel

But execs plan to push more business towards partners

Cloud News

CloudFlare's Railgun protocol gets buy-in from web giants

Byte-level caching cuts dynamic content loading times by 90 percent

Data Centre News

Hardware News

Google builds web games using Chrome on mobes as controller

Mutant offspring of Wii U and Daley Thompson’s Decathlon

Networks News

BlackBerry juices Z10 handset with OTA software update

Here comes the first batch of fixes improvements

Policy News

Australian Bureau of Meteorology apps to map future rain

Third-party ads to commence this month

Security News

Browser makers open local storage hole in HTML5

Bad implementation of disk space limits

Software News

CloudBees in PaaS THREESOME with Cloud Foundry tie-up

Java cloud caught in VMware love-in seeks 'other relationships' as well

Science News

Bootnotes News

Strategic SIEGE ROBOTS defeated by 'heavily intoxicated' man, 62

Epic battle in Ohio: Fall of the Machines™

New comparison rules a boon for tech users

SMH ITPro Newsletter

The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

New comparison rules a boon for tech users

Choosing and comparing mobile, telephone or broadband contracts will become easier for consumers with the introduction of disclosure rules.

Top stories

Aldi to launch budget phone plans

Supermarket chain Aldi is set to move into West End.
GLENDA KWEK 12:53pm | Mobile phone users hunting around for a better deal will get another option with Aldi preparing to take on the major telcos with a budget service.

Music industry fears rise of NBN

Music
Adam Turner 7:25am | A decade of war on its customers got the music industry nowhere, but now the internet is actually boosting sales.

Not much story, but plenty of fun

A screenshot from Cryis 3.
Reviewed by Calum Wilson Austin 11:11am | Crysis 3 gives a glimpse at the level of graphic fidelity we can expect from next generation game consoles.

Scientists link two rats' brains - a continent apart

Scientists created a
9:23am | Scientists have enabled a rat to help a fellow rodent while the animals were a continent apart but connected through brain electrodes.

Teen's early cancer detection tool

Andraka
9:35am | Jack Andraka went from being a typical US teenager unaware of the pancreas to one with a cheap way to detect cancer in the organ before it turns deadly.

Black hole tearing up space

Black Hole
8:17am | Black holes are the Universe's ultimate garbage disposals: stuff falls in, and never gets back out.

WikiHouse - DYI home building

Construction
9:12am | WikiHouse is putting a new spin on old-time barn-raising with a free online resource that lets people put homes together the same way they might a giant jigsaw puzzle.

Brin's rose-tinted view of Glass

Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin envisions Google Glass hitting the market this year with an eye towards freeing people from unsocial habits engendered by ''emasculating'' smartphones.

Scientists find large meteorite

Pustynnikova
9:54am | A meteorite found in Antarctica has scientists excited.

Mobiles to match global population in 2014

Mobiles
9:46am | The number of mobile phones worldwide will catch up to the globe's population next year, the United Nations says.

Much ado about nothing

Mayer
10:40am | Marissa Mayer's ban on telecommuting sparked outrage, but left many in Silicon Valley wondering what the fuss was about.

Hacking war of words heats up

Hacking
9:37am | US hackers attacked two Chinese military websites, China says.

EU may fine Microsoft over browsers

MS
10:31am | EU competition regulators plan to fine Microsoft before the end of March, sources say.

Hospital upgrades computer security to prevent data-doctoring

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The Canberra Hospital will push ahead with new computer security measures designed to help prevent a repeat of the emergency department data-doctoring scandal.

Vodafone to double Tasmanian workforce

Vodafone expects the employment targets to be achieved over the 2013-14 financial year.
JONATHAN SWAN 12:42am | Vodafone will be hiring 750 new workers in its Hobart call centre after receiving $4 million from the federal government.
 

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Friday March 1, 2013

This Week's Top Stories

Yahoo's telecommuting ban backfired

Mayer
Yahoo CEO stired controversy with her move to take away the flexible working arrangements that many employees depended on.

50,000 exposed in ABC website hack

ABC
The personal details of almost 50,000 internet users were exposed online after the ABC's main website was hacked.

The future ain't what it used to be

work from home
ASHER MOSES | With Yahoo and Google sledging teleworking as slow and detrimental to work quality and creativity, has working from home lost its lustre?

Nerd Girls take on 'sexist' industry

Lady with the glasses
Matthew Hall | Just an hour into the opening session of tech conference and Kathy Brown let out a sigh.

Security

Cracks widen in ABC website security

ABC
BEN GRUBB | More than half of the "hashed" passwords exposed in a breach of about 50,000 accounts on the ABC's website have been cracked.

Thousands of enslaved PCs freed

Security
Jim Finkle | A computer security firm says it has freed tens of thousands of infected PCs from a botnet.

Report: Stuxnet older than Twitter

Eugene Kaspersky, whose lab discovered the Flame virus that has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Raphael Satter | The sophisticated cyber weapon that targeted an Iranian nuclear plant is older than previously believed, Symantec said.

Syria group claims credit for hacking AFP Twitter

Twitter
Syrian activists have claimed credit for hacking a Twitter account of French news agency Agence France-Presse.

Public Sector

Hospital upgrade to prevent data-doctoring

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Peter Jean and Lisa Cox | The Canberra Hospital will push ahead with new computer security measures designed to help prevent a repeat of the emergency department data-doctoring scandal.

Council outsourcing a 'bad omen'

outsourcing
TONY MOORE | Brisbane City Council's decision to outsource jobs to an overseas company sets a dangerous precedent, the opposition said.

State's new IT minister to ring changes

Ian Walker, QLD IT Minister
Sylvia Pennington | Is a shake-up finally looming for Queensland's ICT?

Public servants to soon know if they can BYO devices to work

Glenn Archer, AGIMO CIO.
Trevor Clarke | Federal Government expected to approve mobility strategy for 100 agencies and 168,000 public servants.

Outsourced staff to show their 'true feelings'

Office worker
TONY MOORE | Angry and demoralised BCC IT workers who will lose their jobs to an Indian company protested to let councillors know their true feelings.
 

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Start-up

What angels want from you

handshake
Sylvia Pennington | A quick guide on how to get a stranger to give you $300,000 in 10 minutes or less.
Telecommuting

Telecommute ban ok in Silicon Valley

Mayer
Marissa Mayer's ban on telecommuting sparked outrage, but left many in Silicon Valley wondering what the fuss was about.
Mobility

Making wi-fi less frustrating

Communications towers.
Drew Turney | Cognitive radio makes better use of the available radio-frequency spectrum to shift wi-fi services to frequencies where there isn't as much traffic.
M-payments

Samsung, Visa join forces on NFC

Samsung plans will make smartphones with built-in Visa PayWave.
Your next Galaxy S smartphone might also be your Visa card, as giants collaborate to speed up NFC.

Master key added to checkout

LIA TIMSON | MasterCard took another step towards digital cash with a short-cut for online payments using any credit card.

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Regulation

EU may fine Microsoft over browsers

MS
Foo Yun Chee | EU competition regulators plan to fine Microsoft before the end of March, sources say.
Deals

Facebook buying Atlas ad business from Microsoft

Facebook
Online advertising tools may help monetisation of social network, while it relieves Microsoft of a burden.
AGM

Apple promises more 'great stuff'

TC
Michael Liedtke | Tim Cook sought to reassure shareholders worried about Apple's sagging stock price that the company is on the verge of inventing more breakthrough products.
Investment

Oracle CEO Ellison buys an airline

Larry Ellison
Gerry Shih | Billionaire Larry Ellison can now afford to fly commercial - on his own commercial airline, that is.
Retail

Google doesn't need stores: chief

Google
Salvador Rodriguez | The head of Google's Android mobile operating system says the company has no plans to open retail stores.

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