Stories by: Darren Pauli

McAfee has beat off rivals in a deal with Facebook which will allow it to promote its security suite to the website’s 350 million users and make it mandatory for victims of compromised accounts to use its online scanning tool.

Adoption and use of 3G networks and wireless broadband exploded last year as consumers flocked to grab the latest Internet-ready mobile, according to new research.

Railcorp has inked a two and half year deal with communications supplier Huawei Australia to replace its ageing analogue radio network with a digital solution used in China’s ultra-fast railway network.

Market forces, rather than legislation, is driving companies to consolidate servers and develop more efficient power and cooling systems in data centres, analysts say.

Tasmania will be the guinea pig for determining cost and take-up of the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN).

Vodafone will tomorrow launch its upgraded mobile 3G network to improve coverage under-served regional areas.

IT services firm CSC is the latest in a string of technology companies including IBM, Dell and HP to lay-off staff amid the global economic crisis.

Centrelink will release its $560,000 smart card identification protocol for free in an attempt to buy-back security systems based on the technology.

Telstra has lost its final appeal to impose a $30 charge for competitors to access the last mile copper network in metropolitan areas.

Some security professionals argue that because their profession mitigates risk, it should be excluded from the need to return capital. Moreover, some make the case that project governance could be hijacked and reputation damaged if financial returns, based on an extrapolation of risk reduction, are not delivered.