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OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."

Some subscribers just want their ISP or carrier to provide the pipes and then stay out of the way. But that tends to mean low margins, so providers are keen to provide additional services. Amdocs Connected Home allows ISPs and carriers to compete with 'over the top' providers of services such as remote security, health monitoring, and entertainment.

Samsung has specified which of its products will be able to gain access to Quickflix movies on demand over the Internet, under the agreement announced last month.

BYOD - bring your own device - is happening whether you like it or not. So it makes sense to work out how you're going to manage it and a way of reaping the benefits while avoiding the pitfalls.

IT services giant CSC has announced that Mike Lawrie will take up the reins as president and CEO before the end of March this year. It’s a case of CEO revolving doors as Mr Lawrie’s previous employer is being taken over by another company which wasn’t planning to make him CEO.

SUSE Linux will this year mark 20 years since it was brought to life by three raw German graduates and a software engineer.

Microsoft has released details for a Kinect Star Wars themed limited edition Xbox 360 available in April.

Australia’s peak ICT industry body is bringing Vivek Kundra, the former White House CIO and author of the Obama government’s Cloud First policy to inject some “fact” into the debate surround cloud uptake. Today of course Mr Kundra is an executive vice president with SalesForce – a company with a vested interest in talking up the cloud.

The Federal Government has launched a three year, $5.1m trial of virtual English language tuition over the NBN designed to help new migrants settle into regional communities.

Google has launched a beta version of its Chrome browser for the Android OS, but it needs the latest version, 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich.

F-Secure has announced a cloud based content storage and synchronisation service, Content Anywhere, that synchronises a user's files in the cloud, making them accessible on PCs, tablets, smartphones and digital TVs.

Canonical, the company best known for its Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has decided to pull funding for Kubuntu, the version that has KDE as its desktop environment instead of GNOME.

Communications minister Stephen Conroy is expected to announce today that US satellite manufacture Space Systems/Loral has been awarded a contract worth about $600m for two geostationary satellites to deliver NBN services to about three percent of homes beyond the economic reach of wireless or fibre services.

The telecomms industry has made its last bid to escape regulation of its customer service practices by the ACMA, with the submission of a revised Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code to the ACMA for registration.

Gold Coast-based IT firm Mercury IT has just finalised a two-year technology transformation of Queensland’s largest regional taxi service.

Global e-commerce SaaS provider, BigCommerce, has a new chief engineer of its Australian operation who will oversee the design, development and testing strategy with a team of more than 25 engineers at the company’s Sydney headquarters.

The technology sector is still the most trusted industry sector in Australia, as revealed in a global survey which found that last year people in countries around the world blamed their governments, more than any other institution, for the financial and political crisis they endured, including in Australia where only one-third of the general population trust the institution of government to do what is right.

Roger Boisjoly was one of the engineers that vehemently opposed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger because he was firmly convinced its o-rings would not hold up under the very cold conditions on the morning of January 28, 1986. He and other engineers were correct. NASA was wrong -- dead wrong.

The mantra has always been "build it and they will come."  But too often it's translated to "build it with vulnerabilities and hope they won't notice."

Fuji Xerox has won a competitive tender to provide the federal government’s Department of Human Services with dynamic content publishing software and services to be used by Centrelink, Medicare Australia, and Child Support.