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A Google Approach to Melbourne News
⊜ Melbourne
Well it's not quite Melbourne News, but Google's Australian news service introduced last year is as good as any online news source. Headlines from Google NEWS Australia are automatically updated...

ACCC has online fraudsters in its sights
⊜ Melbourne
A crackdown on internet scams and the break-up of cartel collusion will be the focus of campaigns this year for chief consumer regulator Graeme Samuel. Mr Samuel said yesterday that the Australian...

Bagle VIRUS' Nasty Turn
⊜ Melbourne
By Alyce Lomax [March 19, 2004] The Bagle virus took a turn for the worse yesterday, with variations now able to infect PCs without any user intervention. By user intervention, we mean opening...

Faith, hope and charity
⊜ Melbourne
The typical small business in Australia has a few workers with modest IT knowledge and a handful of computers. It also has a mountain of needs and little time or money with which to resolve...

First there was SPAM now there is SPIM
⊜ Melbourne
Spim targets instant messaging, or "IM"surging onto global networks as spammers try to get around electronic filters and laws reports The Age. It has yet to become a threat in Australia, but is...

Judges' details revealed in web bungle
⊜ Melbourne
The private addresses and work histories of Victorian judges and magistrates were inadvertently posted on the internet last week. Legal Ombudsman Kate Hamond raised the alarm on Friday after...

Kazaa Fights Court Order
⊜ Melbourne
There were over 81 articles in today's newspapers reporting on Kazaa in Sydney fighting a Court Order that saw its offices raided over the weekend. MIPI have been agressively chasing Kazaa to the...

Logogle
⊜ Melbourne
Some people just have too much time on their hands... Make a Google-style logo.. Type any text into the text box below and push the "Make"button. ...

MyDoom-B VIRUS creates havoc
⊜ Melbourne
Microsoft is the latest corporate target expecting attack from the hacker activists behind the MyDoom email worm. The destructive code is still flooding internet services in 170 countries. It is...

New Internet Virus Attacks
⊜ Melbourne
Australia's internet system has been struck by a dangerous new worm program which may spread further with the start of the business week. Internet experts say the worm, named Sasser, began to...

OPTUS mail server block irks cable customers
⊜ Melbourne
Optus is preventing its cable internet users from using SMTP servers other than its own to send mail, users of the service say. SMTP or the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a protocol for sending...

Optus unveils new broadband services
⊜ Melbourne
2004 | Optus today unveiled plans to slash the price and increase the data allowances of its high speed internet offering. Optus said the changes included broadband price reductions of more than...

Plague of flies hits Melbourne
⊜ Melbourne
Plague of flies hits Melbourne By Danny Buttler 18Dec03 THE black plague has returned to Melbourne with a vengeance. Millions of tiny bushflies have descended on the city for the first time...

reddit.com | melbourne
⊜ Melbourne
Reddit bridges communities and individuals with ideas, the latest digital trends, and breaking news (...okay, and maybe cats). Our mission is to help people discover places where they can be...

The web spinners
⊜ Melbourne
Designers are the key to creating effective and attractive websites. Darryl Nelson meets half a dozen of the best. =========== Cornel Wilczek : Working on: Icon.inc (iconinc.com.au) Education:...

Website paralysed by MyDoom barrage
⊜ Melbourne
The MyDoom computer virus, now rated the second-worst email worm in history, hit the internet yesterday, choking the website of its victim, the SCO Group software company. Microsoft - the other...

Wotnews
⊜ Melbourne
Wotnews sources Australian business news across a vast set and variety of sources because what you read in the traditional media is only one perspective. Wotnews sources Australian news across a...