The average speed experienced by home broadband users slowed over Easter, as more users jumped online. Does this mean ISPs are struggling to cope with peak demand?

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Up to Speed: that holiday traffic

It's budget day, but there seems to be more dread than excitement in the IT industry. The pessimism isn't surprising, given that the government has had to deal with falling revenues, and is looking for $20 billion in savings in order to deliver its promised surplus. The question is, where will the cuts fall

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All eyes on the budget knife

Google Australia today announced a series of start-up events, to help Australian entrepreneurs transform their ideas into start-up businesses.

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Google jumps into Aussie start-up arena

The global market for Hadoop- and MapReduce-related software will grow at a compound annual growth rate of more than 60 per cent through to 2016, according to IDC data. IDC put the Hadoop-MapReduce ecosystem market at US$77 million in 2011

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Hadoop software to pull in $812m in 2016: IDC

By arguing that programming interfaces called APIs can be copyrighted, Oracle could trigger new legal burdens for technology companies - such as those building cloud-computing platforms. The eyeless, mouthless Java mascot named Duke cartwheels across a T-shirt from a JavaOne conference

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Oracle's chance to rewrite software law

Although the results were a bit of a mixed bag, the jury in the Oracle v. Google ruled mainly in favour of Oracle in the copyright phase of the trial on Monday morning in the US

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Oracle-Google verdict arrives, favours Oracle

ZDNet Australia is proud to bring you a serialised version of Phil Dobbie's novel The Incumbent . A new chapter will be published here as part of his blog each week on Tuesday. You can also buy the entire book by clicking here .

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The Incumbent: Chapter 30

After strong lobbying, Primus has been selected by NBN Co to test a software fix that will allow retailers to provide voice-only services over the National Broadband Network's (NBN) fibre. Primus CEO Tom Mazerski had been pushing NBN Co for a number of months to develop a voice-only product, telling ZDNet Australia in February , that there will be millions of pensioners and low-income households that won't be able to afford broadband services, and will only want a voice service.

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NBN Co picks Primus for voice trial

Local venture capital firm Starfish Ventures has bootstrapped a Melbourne-based start-up with $2 million to get technology off the ground to create infinitely scalable and distributed multiplayer worlds. Badumna could change how games like World of Warcraft have approached server infrastructure

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Starfish drops $2m into virtual world start-up

This week on ZDNet Australia 's app wrap, we look at Seek, Flight+, Groupon, Solid Explorer Beta, Salary Checker, Cisco Technical Support, Annual Leave Pro/HD and NotifierPro.

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ZDNet App Wrap: 7 May 2012