Technology Shares Soar As Markets Roar Back
Technology stocks soared across the board as US stockmarkets rebounded overnight. The Nasdaq composite index leapt almost 12 percent, or 194.74 points, to close at 1844.25 at 7am, Sydney time....
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Aussies OK Social Media Monitoring On Terror: Commerce Not
SYDNEY - Almost eight in 10 Australians (79 percent) support monitoring publicly available information on social media to detect possible terrorist activity, and 68 percent support such monitoring to identify...
Failed Bitcoin Boss Arrested: $480m Real Money Still Missing
The former head of defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, Mark Karpeles, pictured, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the disappearance of virtual currency worth hundreds of millions of US...
Cheap Small PCs Big At Computex
Cheaper and smaller PCs are dominating the world's second largest computer fair, Computex, in Taipei this week.
Aussie Cybercrims Using Express Deposit Boxes To Launder Money
Serious organised crime groups - SOCGs to the cognoscenti - in Australia are increasingly using business express deposit boxes and Internet banking for money laundering, according to a new report...
Cyber-Security Threats Worsen: Govts, Big Biz Told to Work Together
The number, type and sophistication of cyber security threats to Australia and Australians are increasing rapidly and will cost Australia more than $1 billion a year in future, even though...
Apple Overtakes Microsoft To Take Top IT Slot
On the day that they launch their iPad in Australia Apple has finally toppled Microsoft as the No. 1 ICT company, after its market capitalisation surpassed the software giant's market...
Intel Gives WiMax A Miss
Australia will trail much of the world in seeing notebook PCs equipped with the new WiMax technology, Intel GM Philip Cronin confirmed at yesterday's Down Under launch of its new...
More Fibre Coming: TPG’s Teoh
TPG Telecom chairman David Teoh says he plans to step up competition with Telstra and the NBN by continuing to speed up his fibre rollout in major Australian cities.