Domain name trading company Netfleet has been able to bring its website back up with minimal disruption following a security breach that occurred yesterday.

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Netfleet recovers from database breach

Telecommunications industry veteran and outspoken CEO of Exetel John Linton has passed away overnight. (Western Ground Parrot WA image by Brent Barrett , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Linton, who ran Exetel since 2004, passed away overnight after suffering from a stroke at lunch yesterday.

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Exetel CEO John Linton passes away

An appeal of the Optus TV-recording case against the football codes and Telstra is a certainty, as it becomes the first major test of the 2006 amendments to the Copyright Act. (Gavel image by walknboston , CC2.0 ) Yesterday, Optus defeated attempts by the Australian Football League (AFL), the National Rugby League (NRL) and Telstra to claim that its TV Now app allows users to record free-to-air television to store in the Optus cloud infringes on copyright

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Optus TV Now win challenges copyright law

Twisted Wire looks at the AFL and NRL loss in court over how Optus stores TV content in the cloud. There's also the battle to declare Telstra's wholesale DSL. We know who will lose that one too

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Optus wins on TV Now, Telstra to lose on DSL

Fish, barrel; fox, henhouse; Abbott, NBN. Mocking Tony Abbott's ignorance of telecoms has become so easy and habitual that his latest pronouncements would normally hardly merit a response

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Abbott paving a telecoms road to nowhere

Windows XP may be an older operating system, but to Microsoft's dismay, there is still a large percentage of users that haven't upgraded yet. After 10 years, Windows XP is still the most popular OS. (Credit: NetApplications) The decade-old OS has slowly been losing more users to Windows 7, but January marked a small resurgence in its grip on the market, according to stats out recently from NetApplications.

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Windows XP clings on as dominant OS

Facebook took a formal step toward joining the ranks of other public technology giants after filing for its eagerly anticipated initial public offering (IPO), which could value the company by as much as US$100 billion. The company filed an S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, officially declaring its intent to go public.

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Facebook files to go public

opinion Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Larry Page will have their duels throughout the years.

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Three of The Pirate Bay's founders won't be able to argue their case before Sweden's Supreme Court. On Wendesday, the court announced that it won't hear an appeal by Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom, meaning the jail sentences and fines imposed by the lower Swedish Court of Appeals will stand.

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Swedish court scuttles Pirate Bay appeal

Apple's attempt to keep Samsung from selling its Galaxy 10.1N tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphone in Germany was rejected overnight. Galaxy Tab 10.1N (Credit: Samsung) "Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that was already on the market before the intellectual property had been filed for protection," said Munich Regional Court Judge Andreas Mueller, according to Bloomberg . Apple originally took aim at Samsung's devices - particularly the Tab - for bearing resemblance to its own products

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German court rejects Apple block on Galaxy