Stories by James Hutchinson

Senate debate continues as NBN bill passes

Senate debate on legislation concerning access arrangements under the National Broadband Network (NBN) could continue over the weekend as the Federal Government sought to push through bills before a six-week break for Parliament.

Optus livid over NBN access amendments

Optus has warned amendments proposed to National Broadband Network (NBN) legislation proposed by communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, last night would be a step backwards for the telecommunications industry.

Social engineering remains biggest cyber threat

Despite increases in the number and capability of botnets for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, social engineering remains one of the largest cyber security threats to IT infrastructure according to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

Austar developing local media "wonder box"

Regional pay television operator, Austar (ASX:AUN), is developing a cross-platform user interface that could aggregate and beam content to multiple devices simultaneously, in an effort to maintain the company’s viability under the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Cloud email crawls to RMIT students, staff

Though self-admittedly lagging on a trend most universities completed in the past few years, RMIT in Melbourne has committed to migrating its student and staff email accounts to a hosted solution.

Qld treasurer keeps hands off govt IT spend

Queensland treasurer, Andrew Fraser, has pledged not to dictate specific cuts or targets for government ICT activities, despite a floundering economy in the face of recent natural disasters striking the state.

Cisco cancels March IOS security advisory

Networking vendor, Cisco, has cancelled a regularly scheduled security advisory update for users of IOS software on the company’s routers and switches, citing recent events in Japan.

Internode prepares Victor Harbor expansion

Internet service providers are awaiting the final link between new fibre backhaul in regional South Australia and Telstra exchanges in order to provide competitive ADSL services in Victor Harbor and surrounding towns.

Ballarat ponders NBN policy changes, fibre rollout

Ballarat City Council is actively considering deploying fibre at new developments in the growing regional town in order to avoid “shoe-horning” fast broadband access during the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Nextgen plugs South Australian backhaul blackspot

Fibre backhaul provider, Nextgen Networks, has completed the second link in as many weeks of the Federal Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP), with the 129 kilometre link in South Australia going live.

Unis prepare for next Cloud wave

Following a wave of migration to Cloud-based email systems for students and staff, Australian universities are preparing for the next migration trend, outsourcing instances of the popular Blackboard student resources portal to the vendor’s own servers.

AGIMO progresses data centre strategy

The Australian Government’s lead procurement agency to soon announce preferred vendors for a number of tenders forming part of the government’s 15-year data centre strategy in an attempt to progress from interim arrangements.

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