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May 23,2012

Telstra has announced that the HTC Titan will be the first Windows Phone to operate on its 4G network, which it will offer to business customers from Tuesday. (Credit: Telstra) Telstra's group managing director of business Will Irving said that the HTC Titan 4G is all about making it faster for customers to do business. It has a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, and runs on Telstra's long-term evolution (LTE) "4G" network at 100 locations across the country, allowing for download speeds of between 2 megabits per second (Mbps) and 40Mbps.

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Telstra to launch first 4G Windows phone

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  • Wednesday
    May 23,2012

    The Nasdaq's tech-related issues surrounding the Facebook IPO aren't over yet, with one unhappy investor deciding to sue the stock exchange parent company over alleged losses, relating to stock order delays. This is probably the smartest way of making money off of the disappointing Facebook IPO we've seen yet.

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    Investor sues Nasdaq over Facebook bungle

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  • Wednesday
    May 23,2012

    Google is the latest in the growing number of organisations that are warning users about the DNSChanger malware , which threatens to affect some users' connectivity. Infected users will soon see a warning at the top of their page alerting them of the issue and how to get help.

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    Google warns users of DNSChanger malware

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  • Tuesday
    May 22,2012

    The first video-gaming degrees have finally received government approval in New Zealand. Auckland's Media Design School will be running two degrees, aimed at supplying New Zealand's emerging games industry

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    Surely IT is more than just a game?

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  • Tuesday
    May 22,2012

    Fragmentation issues in Android were a key concern for the Victorian Department of Health when it came to designing its Better Health Channel app; so much so that the department has opted to design a web app for the platform, rather than going native. Better Health Channel's iOS app (Credit: Victorian Department of Health) The Better Health Channel has been running an online database since 1999, and now has over 2000 pages of health information that require constant quality assurance and maintenance from health professionals

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    Android fragmentation steers Vic Health

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  • Tuesday
    May 22,2012

    Ausgrid is rolling out upgrades to the electricity grid in Port Stephens, with technology that will allow the network infrastructure to "talk" to operators on what might be wrong. (Cincinnati Mason Community "Power Nature & Man-Made" image by David Ohmer , CC BY 2.0 ) The technology will be installed into the part of the Port Stephens grid that supplies Nelson's Bay and Shoal Bay, where power lines can stretch up to 41km in length. At the moment, Ausgrid crews have to patrol these lines during blackouts or interruptions to determine the cause of the issue

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    Ausgrid network to talk back to operators

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  • Tuesday
    May 22,2012

    Kaspersky Lab is the latest company to be denied the chance to develop an official antivirus app for iOS. AVG and Trend Micro are others that have openly criticised Apple for making it difficult to develop antivirus apps, but they don't want to risk their developer status to make a jailbroken equivalent.

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    Kaspersky's antivirus denied on iOS

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  • Tuesday
    May 22,2012

    in brief SuccessFactors has announced that it will start hosting its cloud products out of a datacentre in Sydney, Australia, to service customers in the region. The SAP-owned company is targeting government and local businesses with the datacentre, which will host the SuccessFactors Business Execution suite BizX. The datacentre, obtained via the company's purchase of Australia-based analytics firm Infohrm in 2010, is a Federal Government panel-certified facility, and is also ISO 27001 certified.

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    SuccessFactors launches Sydney datacentre

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  • Tuesday
    May 22,2012

    Dell's results were weak across the board in the first quarter, as large enterprise, public sector and consumer sales fell. Dell's race to transform itself into a company with more software and services couldn't outrun weak hardware spending. The company reported first-quarter earnings of US$635 million, a drop of 33 per cent from a year ago, from revenues of US$14.42 billion, down 4 per cent from a year ago.

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    Dell profits plunge in spending lull

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  • Tuesday
    May 22,2012

    The Department of Human Services (DHS) has stalled on its move towards a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy, stating that the market is too immature for it. Michael Harte (Credit: Commonwealth Bank of Australia) Speaking in the keynote panel session for CeBIT Cloud 2012, DHS general manager for strategy and architecture, Yusuf Mansuri, said that there is certainly a need for information to be mobile. He said that DHS employees often have to visit customers, but, unfortunately, they are restrained, due to regulation and the nature of information.

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    BYOD too immature for us: Human Services

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