Today marks 20 years since Optus began operations in Australia, and 20 years since Telstra had its first competitor.

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Optus: 20 years in photos

Telstra has won a tender it was gunning for to expand the mobile phone coverage in Western Australia.

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Telstra pays $39.2m to revamp WA comms

Woolworths Limited today announced that it is looking to rid itself of Dick Smith Electronics in order to focus on its core business. "Woolworths ... will accelerate the restructure of its specialty consumer-electronics brand, Dick Smith, with a view to divesting the business in a staged and considered process," Woolworths said today, after wrapping up a three-month strategic review into the Dick Smith business

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Woolworths puts Dick Smith up for sale

Social-gaming company Zynga is once again in a competitor's crosshairs.

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Zynga accused of copying competitors

Apple's issues with trust and obsession with secrecy have been well-documented. But now we're hearing of particularly tricky tactical twist.

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Apple engineers' fake work to earn trust

Now, I don't know whether Kim Dotcom is guilty or not! Both the prosecution and the defence put forward plausible cases, though I did find it hard to believe Dotcom "collects" credit cards like some of us might collect postage stamps! But the whole business raises the old argument about poachers becoming gamekeepers, or that of hackers becoming internet security experts. Dotcom is blatantly breaking new ground with his business activities that are so obviously treading on many toes.

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Finding the best use for Dotcom's talents

Yahoo has killed a host of mobile applications.

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Yahoo kills off 10 of its mobile apps

IBM researchers say they've made progress in showing how carbon nanotubes could some day replace silicon in the guts of microprocessors.

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Carbon nanotube transistor outdoes silicon

Last year's privacy flap over Carrier IQ , which makes diagnostic software that's embedded in millions of mobile phones, may spur on new US federal legislation. A draft House of Representatives Bill (PDF) would give the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the power to regulate "monitoring software" that's capable of transmitting location data or other information about who's using the phone. The FTC would have a year to require the disclosure of "the fact that the monitoring software is installed on the mobile telephone", and, in addition, anyone installing the software would have to obtain the "express consent" of customers

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Carrier IQ may spur new privacy law

More than half of global security experts believe that an arms race is already taking place in cyberspace, according to McAfee. The digital arms race is already underway, according to many global experts and their opinions included in McAfee's global cyberdefence report.

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Cybersecurity arms race already on