There is a notion in the minds of many who are in positions of power in this country that the Internet is a distraction, not something to be taken seriously. This is despite the fact that the very sign of network outage tends to get the blood pressure rising in boardrooms.

Telstra is claiming an Australian-first with the launch of a solution that brings together its fixed and 4G mobile networks in a single hybrid device to get homes online sooner, and back online quickly when fixed services are interrupted.

The Australian Government has finally put in place laws to govern data breaches, with legislation passing the Senate on Monday.

The number of hacked websites running the open-source content management system WordPress is increasing by leaps and bounds and this appears to be creating an opportunity for those in the business of selling firewall plugins.

A federal jury in Texas has ordered Google to pay US$20 million to an inventor and his partner for infringing on three anti-malware patents in its Chrome browser.

Microsoft says it loves Linux - but apparently not Skype for Linux. More than six months after Microsoft released an alpha version of its new Skype for Linux, the software still suffers from very basic issues, according iTWire open source editor Sam Varghese.

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