The Australian Football League (AFL) has vowed to take every legal avenue available to protect its multimillion-dollar broadcast-rights deal with Telstra, but its fight may take up to two years.

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Optus TV battle could take 2 years: AFL

Facebook's long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) filing revealed the social network's financial picture, but the company also had to lift the kimono on its technology infrastructure. Simply put, there are technology risks that come with scaling enough to support 483 million daily active users. Disclosure about technology infrastructure isn't new in IPO filings, but there are some key points worth noting about Facebook.

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A look at Facebook's IT risks

Westpac is back in job cuts mode, yesterday consulting with staff and the Finance Sector Union (FSU) about the latest round of redundancies and redeployments that ZDNet Australia can now reveal are set to hit back-office technology operations staff. (That's not an axe image by Kelly Teague , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Reports emerged late yesterday afternoon that the bank had informed the FSU of impending cuts.

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Tech jobs to go in Westpac cuts

You may like that Google Maps is free, but a French court says it's actually anti-competitive. (Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) A Paris court earlier this week ordered Google France and its parent company Google to pay plaintiff Bottin Cartographes â?¬500,000 for providing its free mapping services to businesses across the country

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Google fined for offering Maps for free

Attackers repeatedly hacked VeriSign's network and stole information in 2010, the company revealed in a quarterly regulatory filing. The internet infrastructure provider did not disclose what information was stolen or other details of the attacks in its 10-Q report filed in October with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that was reported by Reuters on Thursday. "In 2010, the company faced several successful attacks against its corporate network in which access was gained to information on a small portion of our computers and servers," the company wrote.

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Hackers stole data from VeriSign in 2010

The Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA) is looking for a new hosting and geospatial data management provider for its nationwide public Toilet Map service, designed to help users find the closest public restroom. (Toilet Door image by Stan Wiechers , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) DOHA is looking for a supplier to host, maintain, update and support the Toilet Map and Bladder Bowel websites, which include collecting new geospatial data on public toilets around the country and logging it into both the interactive website and the mobile application.

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DOHA tenders for Toilet Map back-end

commentary Facebook just filed to go public after a long, tense wait, and so it seems like a good time to remind everyone who's not in tech and finance to just forget it's even happening. Facebook's initial public offering (IPO) will make some bankers, some venture capitalists, some privileged early investors and some early employees rich. Everyone else should steer clear

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Why you shouldn't buy Facebook shares

in brief IT giant Accenture has nabbed yet another core deal in the government's national health-reform push, winning a data-warehousing contract worth $111 million. According to the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA), the contract, awarded in late December, will see Accenture implement data warehousing, analytics and reporting systems for health agencies, including the National Health Funding Body, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the National Health Performance Authority and the Independent Hospitals Pricing Authority. Accenture is no stranger to government contracts, after scoring $47.8 million last year when it was named head of the consortium responsible for developing the government's personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system .

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Accenture scores $111m health IT deal

It seems like every man and his dog has a smartphone, a tablet or both, but surely that means it's just a matter of time before malware for these devices becomes a huge problem. The question is: is enough being done on the mobile side to provide adequate protection? (French test image by James Vaughan , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Sophos' Security Threat Report 2012 worries that mobile malware threats are growing.

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Defusing mobile malware's time bomb

The Department of Defence and its suppliers are set to go to war with the NBN Co for skilled workers in the near future as the national shortage begins to take its toll on planned major infrastructure projects.

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Defence to compete with NBN for skills