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Ausgrid network to talk back to operators

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:39:01 +0000

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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Kaspersky’s antivirus denied on iOS

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:16:01 +0000

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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BYOD too immature for us: Human Services

Tue, 22 May 2012 01:23:01 +0000

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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Westpac board goes paperless with iPads

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:53:01 +0000

Westpac has spent a year developing its own in-house app for securely taking and delivering notes on the iPad, solving a document-security puzzle that has troubled rivals for some time. (Westpac Bank (formerly Bank of New South Wales), Toowoomba-1 image by David Jackmanson , CC2.0 ) Westpac today showed off Tabula, an app designed for iPads, which was developed in-house for secure document transmission and dissemination by board members. Tabula allows Westpac's administrative staff to cobble together documents from all over the organisation that may be required for upcoming board meetings; customise them into an agenda packet for each board member; encrypt them internally; and send them electronically to the iPad

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Vocus snaps up NZ datacentre provider

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:33:01 +0000

in brief Vocus today announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase a New Zealand based datacentre operator and cloud provider for NZ$9.5 million. Maxnet owns a datacentre just outside Auckland and provides infrastructure as a service products to customers and owns a datacentre just outside the Auckland CBD

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CeBIT 2012 opens: photos

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:11:01 +0000

Business-technology exhibition CeBIT 2012 kicked off today, bringing together a who's who of technology players.

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NSW Govt appoints Silicon Valley champion

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:35:01 +0000

The NSW Government has appointed an Australian champion for the technology space in Silicon Valley, US.

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Qantas promotes tech head to lead Jetstar

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:26:01 +0000

Qantas executives will once again play musical chairs in a familiar game that sees the airline's head of technology promoted into the top job within the airline's low-cost subsidiary, Jetstar. (Qantas tail image by mateoutah , CC2.0 ) Jayne Hrdlicka is currently the group executive for Strategy and Technology for Qantas. As of 1 July, she will become CEO of Jetstar.

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EU antitrust chief: we’ll settle with Google

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:01:01 +0000

The European Union's competition commissioner has said that he is open to settling his antitrust investigation into Google's search practices. Joaquin Almunia held a news briefing yesterday , saying that his office would be willing to come to a "quick resolution on the competition issues" that Google is facing, so that competition can be restored across the continent

Android’s biggest security flaws

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:46:01 +0000

Android is widely accepted as being iOS' greatest rival, but, according to Dell SecureWorks security researcher Timothy Vidas, it has a host of issues that have made it a target for malware authors. Speaking at security conference AusCERT 2012 last week, Vidas outlined some of the problems that exist in the Android operating system, while highlighting that his concern is based on malware figures, rather than his preference for a particular vendor

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