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Sparse Pickings For ICT Industries In Swan's 'Battler Budget'
CANBERRA ? There was precious little joy for the IT and communications industries in the Budget unveiled last night by Treasurer Wayne Swan, with major delays and cutbacks in defence and other spending, and only a few crumbs in the form of new IT infrastructure and systems ? and almost nothing in the form of incentives for developing a strong technology industry in this country.
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ICANT: Web Boss Defend Blackout
Domain boss says "quality, not speed" will determine software glitch which has seen thousands of name applications stalled.
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Amazon Cloud Hangs Over Desktop
SAN FRANCISCO ? As the battle for free cloud storage develops, Amazon has unveiled a desktop app for its Cloud Drive service, which gives consumers five gigabytes of free storage in the cloud.
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Linux Based Tizen Maturing, V1.0 Gets New Features
Tizen, the open source mobile OS built upon Linux, has passed its beta testing and is kicking off its lifespan as version 1.0. Community support has also gained a push following a new community wiki page and bug trackers compliments of the Tizen team.
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Google Pays $74K Tax After Taking $201M Out Of Oz
Google Australia recorded a net loss of A$3.9 million on operating revenue of $201 million in the financial year ended December 2011, paying only $74,176 in local taxes, The Australian reports, following a dig at the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
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Microsoft Spends Over $600M On Nook Innovation
Microsoft is trying to buy an ecosystem for its Windows OS by investing over $600M into a subsidiary company with Barnes & Noble that will position the popular Nook e-reader at its core.
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Acer's New All In One
Acer has released two new touchscreen all in one PCs that double up as space saving home entertainment solutions.
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Google's 'Rogue Engineer' Fib Crumbles Following New Report
For the last 17 months, Google?s Street View project (affiliated with their Google Maps) has been the subject of an investigation conducted by the US Federal Commission. The commission was instigated by the flippant harvesting of personal information, such as emails, text messages and passwords, to which Google falsely alleged was the mistake of a rogue engineer.
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Price Gouging: Where Are Adobe & Microsoft Profits Going?
COMMENT: As Microsoft and Adobe face a Federal Government probe into their pricing practises in Australia, one has to question why the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has not called for an investigation into the monopoly that both Companies have in the Australian market in the past.
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Your WiFi Used In Their Crimes
One in five homes have their WiFi network hacked and their computer interactions recorded with the aid of easy-to-obtain software, experts warn.
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NBN Lovechild to Hit 2012
Look out Telstra: new ?virtual ISP? has hit telco town offering mobile, broadband ?exclusively? over NBN
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Conroy Blasts Telstra Treachery
Thy treacherous, lecherous, villain! Stephen Conroy blasts Telstra?s double crossing after Chief Thodey commended the coalition alternative NBN plan as cheaper (and faster).
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Solar Cells On Curtains, Smartphones & Clothes
Chemical Engineer Miles Barr wants to put solar cells on curtains, smartphone cases and clothes. His vision, if realised, could tap into energy that has thus far been wasted and bring us closer to a more environmentally friendly world.
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