Rudd Government To Review Its Own Online Security The Attorney-General Robert McClelland and the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy today announced a whole-of-government review of e-security.

Samsung Warns Of NAND Flash Drought According to overseas report, Samsung is warning that there may be a NAND flash memory drought after Apple placed a massive order.

Toshiba Rolls Out 3 More Notebooks In its mega roll out of some 32 new notebooks since April, Toshiba has unveiled a new range of consumer notebooks, to include the latest innovative design and mobile computing technologies and are available at retail outlets now.

Adobe Rolls Out Web-Based Rich Media Search Adobe Systems has announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs).

Apple iPhone Hit With Lawsuit Typhoon Its not all good news for Apple, as its iPhone, iPod touch, and soon to be released iPhone 3G are all set to be star witnesses in a massive lawsuit brought about by a vendor that claims its copyright has been infringed.

Asus Eee PC To Come With Bigger Keyboards According to digitimes.com, Asustek Computer is planning to launch two new Eee PC models, the 904 and 905, which will have an 8.9-inch panel but use a keyboard as big as the company's 10.2-inch models.

Microsoft Says Goodbye To Windows XP For Good As of close of business this afternoon, Microsoft will stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers, regardless of protests from a swathe of PC users who don't want to be forced into using Vista.

HP Says Too Many Changes Cause IT Risks HP has released the results of a global survey of 1,125 IT professionals from 20 countries, revealing their views about IT risk and how it relates to business risk.

Notebook Sales Keep PC Market Growing According to analyst firm iSupply, for the last five years, first-quarter PC shipments have grown by an average of 12 per cent ? a trend that seems to be continuing.

Queensland: Beautiful One Day, Digitally Restored The Next Australia?s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence (NICTA), has welcomed a $10 million funding infusion from the Queensland State Government for NICTA?s Queensland Research Laboratory.

Conroy Accuses Opposition Of Broadband Vandalism & Ineptitude The National Broadband Network tender process is being jeopardised by the Opposition's abuse of Senate power, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said after the Opposition moved the National Broadband Network (NBN) proposal to a Senate inquiry.

While Microsoft Fiddles, Apple Plans WWW Domination It seems Apple is not content to just dominate laptops, phones and other mobile devices or slick new retail stores, as reports from the US show, it seems it now also wants to remake the internet in its own fruit-flavoured image.

1 Billion PCs And Growing According to a report by IT analysts Gartner, the number of personal computers in the world has exceeded the 1 billion mark and will double by 2014, with most growth coming from developing markets.

Panasonics Mini Toughbook Out Within Days The word out on the IT street is that Panasonic is gearing up to introduce an Intel Atom-based mini-tablet to its well-known Toughbook line.

NEC Appoints Asentria For Voice Monitoring NEC Australia has chosen Asentria?s TeleBoss Controllers to monitor and manage its outsourced voice monitoring services.

Domain Name Change Set To Trigger Web Explosion According to a number of overseas reports, internet users worldwide should soon be able to use new domain names such as .love, .sydney or .bank if one of the world wide web's biggest shakeups is approved this week as expected by the global web regulator ICANN.

Easy IP Surveillance From QNAP QNAP Systems has announced the NVR-1012 network surveillance kit for home and office. The NVR-101 is an instant surveillance system providing professional grade live video recording and real-time remote monitoring/playback service.

Dell, Hitachi & Western Digital Accused Of Theft According to reports, US company Convolve last week filed a federal lawsuit charging that Dell, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have all violated its patents for vibration-control techniques in hard drives and PCs.

Email Distraction - A $684 Billion Problem For those that live and die by their emails, the question increasingly being asked is: ?Has technology created a monster?? Email--once a breakthrough in fast and low-cost communication that seamlessly fits into the information worker's day it barely goes noticed in 2008 is starting to get a bad rap, according to Gizmodo.com.

AMD To Launch Cheapie CPU Soon According to digitimes.com, AMD has notified its partners it is developing a processor to enter the low-cost PC market alongside Intel's Atom and Via Technologies' Nano CPUs.

Adobe Growing In All Directions At Once Following Adobes recent huge profit posting in the US, the local arm of one of the world's best known software companies says that its growth is showing no signs of abating - regardless of the dire predictions on the economy.

Mobile Antivirus Suite From Eset Eset has announced Mobile Antivirus, a lightweight version of the company?s heuristic technology that has been optimised for mobile platforms.

Extreme Networks Launches Scalable Switch The Extreme Networks Summit X650 24-port 10 Gigabit fixed switch is designed to provide high performance, scalability and advanced features and to deliver improved network economics, scale and longevity to SMB?s and growing data centres.

Is The iPod Dead? Last week at the launch of the iPhone by Steve Jobs in the US, there were many announcements by the man in the black turtleneck skivvy including a new Mac OS and a number of apps to go with Apple products. But there was one word missing from the whole presentation.

Samsung Selling Mobile Phones Made From Corn Talk about going green- or yellow in this case as Samsung Electronics unveils two new mobile phones made with plastic made from corn aimed at the company becoming more environmentally friendly.

Automated SMB Storage From Tandberg The Tandberg Data StorageLoader LTO with fourth generation LTO Half Height tape drives (LTO-4 HH) is an entry-level automated backup solution, offering good storage performance and capacities in a compact 1U form factor.

Opera Sings Praises Of New Fast Browser For those that feel the need for speed ? browser speed that is, Opera is unveiling its latest browser version tomorrow, which is supposed to soup up this very much underrated browser product.

Dell Hits No. 2 Globally For Notebooks According to DisplaySearch, Dell has recaptured the number two spot from Acer in notebook shipments worldwide, with HP still holding the top spot for the last six quarters with over 20 per cent of the notebook market.

Rudd Government Declares War On eTerror Experts from government, industry and community organisations today met in Sydney to discuss emerging e-security challenges and how to prepare for the future.

Firefox Throws Down Challenge To Internet Explorer According to reports, Mozilla with its new Firefox 3 browser has thrown down the gauntlet and is ready to challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Samsung Wants To Become Top Dog In Mobiles For a company that only 5 years ago had a 3 percent market share and now is pushing around the one-quarter of total market share, getting to the top of the mobile phone tree is not out of the question.

Exclusive Few Invited To New Apple Store Opening Apple insiders have this morning received email invites to attend the official opening of the new Apple Shop on June 19th in Sydney. The invitation asks them to catch the opening of the new store and be one of 2500 to get a free T-shirt.

IT Security Needs To Be Virtual Says Check Point IDC has noted that surfing the Web remains a very dangerous endeavor as criminal hackers and bot herders increasingly corrupt websites, planting Web browser-based attacks used to steal personal information or plant malware on an unsuspecting public.

New Apple OS Designed For Business Users As channelnews reported last week, Apple will be releasing new version of its Mac OS X dubbed "Snow Leopard?, which will be aimed at not just home users, but the enterprise market as well.

Apple Rebrands Mac Online You gotta give it to Steve Jobs and Apple, if you are going to launch cool new products, you might as well take on the whole global IT sector at the same time.

Samsung Launches iPhone Rival It looks like everyone wants a piece of Apple as Samsung has launched a new touch-screen smartphone only three hours before Apple was unveiling its new version of the iPhone.

Microsoft Gets Massive Boost Thanks To The iPhone Bill Gates should be thanking Steve Jobs this morning- as the newly-released iPhone will not only be a big winner with consumers- Apple has positioned the iPhone to firmly fit into the enterprise space.

Check Point Gets iPhone VPN Gig Check Point Software Technologies has today announced Check Point VPN-1 support for the upcoming and much-anticipated Apple iPhone, allowing secure remote access to corporate network systems.

AMD Pounces With Puma Platform AMD announced a new platform called Puma at the recent Computex trade show in Taiwan, which includes the Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor combined with the ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series graphics chip.

Intel Cops Massive Fine For Market Abuse According to reports, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has fined Intel $AUD26 million for abusing its dominant position in the local microprocessor market.

Forget The iPhone - Apple To Release OS 10.6 According to a number of Mac user blogs and web sites, inlcuding TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog), Apple will provide the first copies of Mac OS 10.6 at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which opens on Monday in San Francisco.

Extreme Environment Watch From Casio Casio has launched the G-Shock digital watch designed for extreme environments, including for use with defence force personnel.

Philips Invents Digital Undies Forget about consumer electronics and other digital items, the boffins over at Philips have come up with the next ?must have? item- digital underwear to monitor users heart and health status.

The Most Dangerous Net Domain Is?? Security vendor McAfee has released the most dangerous neighborhoods on the Web with Hong Kongs, (.hk) domain jumping to the top of the list, followed by China's (.cn) domain. The safest domain is Finland's (.fi) and second is Japan's (.jp) according to toptechnews.com.

Queensland- Beautiful One Day, Fraudulent The Next Things are always bigger in Queensland- houses, bananas and footy teams in particular, and so it seems is the size of eBay fraud as Queensland police say they have tracked down 23 repeat offenders responsible for about half that state's reported eBay fraud.

Microsoft Offers XP Stay Of Execution According to reports, Microsoft has further extended the life of Windows XP so that computer makers can include the operating system on low-cost PCs, flowing from the increasing popularity of these devices.

Telarus Offers SMB Wireless Solution Telarus has partnered with Clever and announced a special offer for 8Mb/s premium fixed wireless access to provide Australian businesses high speed, high quality connectivity at what it claims is a very aggressive price.

SanDisk Rolls Out Solid State Drives For ULPCs SanDisk has introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for an emerging new category of portable consumer electronics ? the Ultra Light PC (ULPC) - that allow users to have an enhanced experience while easily surfing the Internet using wireless communication.

SMS Concierge Service For Travellers From Loop9 Melbourne-based IT company Loop9, has now put vital day to day ? and minute to minute - information literally into the palm of the business traveller?s hand, via SMS to their mobile phone, courtesy of its new development Travel Messenger.

Lenovo Sees Red With New Notebook The colour red signifies luck in Chinese culture and that is exactly what Lenovo is hoping for with its sales of the new IdeaPad U110 consumer notebook PC.