HP has denied that it has issued new firmware updates designed to prevent the use of third-party cartridges on its Officejet printers. The use of cheap 3rd party cartridge refills has been a bugbear of printer manufacturers for years, who make most of their money of exorbitantly priced ink.

Businesses have been urged to prepare to migrate their special services, which simultaneously use voice, video and data services, to the NBN broadband access ahead of the first disconnections.

An Optus transmission cable that was cut in Melbourne on Monday was restored last night, the company said today.

Technology known as Cardihab — a method to help improve recovery after a heart attack — developed by the Australian eHealth Research Centre, has been spun off from Australia's national science and technology accelerator programme, known as ON.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resigned from the World Wide Web Consortium after the latter announced it was accepting the published Encrypted Media Extensions as a Web standard.

Australian courier and door-to-door online delivery service Sendle is partnering with global logistics giant DHL ecommerce to offer international parcel delivery services for small businesses in Australia.

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