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Tech News Bulletin
Thursday September 25, 2008
ZDNet.com.au edit team
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Paranoid Android: Did they forget Oz?
Dozens of phone calls and emails today made one thing clear: none of Australia's telcos or handset manufacturers have briefed their staff on when mobile phones running Google's Android system will be made available locally, if they are at all.
Tags: htc, google, android, lg, palm, carriers, samsung, sony ericsson
Plugger.com.au gets Wotif backer
Australian business news aggregator Plugger.com.au will re-brand as 'Wotnews.com.au' following a licensing and investment deal with high-profile Wotif.com founder and local multi-millionaire Graeme Wood.
Tags: plugger, start-up, wotif.com, graeme wood, wood, graeme, plug, news
Minchin, Coonan in united Conroy front
Senators Nick Minchin and Helen Coonan today opened fire in the Senate on communications minister Stephen Conroy in a joint attack marking the commencement of Minchin's term as shadow minister.
Tags: helen coonan, minister, nick minchin, senate, stephen conroy, conroy, senator
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The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem — and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
Tags: bandwidth, bigpond, cap, internode, telstra, net neutrality, iinet, hackett
Don't buy stand-alone antivirus: Trend Micro
Stand-alone antivirus applications were dangerous because they could not adequately protect users and so created a false sense of security, according to the top malware expert at Trend Micro. However, the company continues to sell its stand-alone antivirus app because of 'customer demand'.
Tags: trend micro, ibrs, security, blacklist, whitelist, symantec, trojan, virus
KAZ to fire 100 staff?
Telstra today declined to confirm or deny a report that it was firing up to 100 staff from its troubled IT services division KAZ.
Tags: asg, david thodey, eds, hp, kaz, mike foster, oakton, sms
iPhone failings great for Telstra: Burgess
The iPhone's shortcomings have been a boon to Telstra, the telco's outgoing public policy chief Phil Burgess claimed in his last Australian speech yesterday.
Tags: apple, iphone, phil burgess, telstra, next g, burgess, australia, competitor
Unisys Australia nabs new MD from SAP
Global IT services firm Unisys has formally replaced its local managing director Steve Parker, more than half a year after the executive quietly left the company to take the chief operating officer role at up and coming competitor Oakton.
Tags: it services, oakton, unisys, steve parker, andrew barkla, sap, david barnes, barnes
HTC Touch Pro hits Australia
HTC today announced local availability and pricing for the latest in its Touch series of smartphones, the Touch Pro.
Tags: 3 mobile, htc, mobile phone, smartphone, touch pro, touch, pro, diamond
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product — a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.
Tags: openworld, oracle, storage server, data management, databases, enterprise software, hardware, larry ellison

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News: Early Windows 7 will be out at PDC
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