Stories by Byron Kaye

No dispute over IT monopoly

Domain name registrar Melbourne IT has been allocated a year-long monopoly over .com.au registrations with the full consent of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

No rumours please, it's BMCMedia

Listed Sydney internet player BMCMedia has announced the sale of a minority stake in the company to trans-Asian internet giant Chinadotcom.

King Kong finds security in Australia, yet again

Australian web security company SecureNet enjoyed a positive market reaction to yesterday morning's announcement that internet giant Pacific Century CyberWorks bought a slice of the company.

Ziggy fires bolt at senior management

The 220 Telstra execs who will find themselves out of work between now and December have no one to blame but themselves, according to one company official.

Skills shortage a load of bull

A solution to Australia's growing IT skills drought may be found in software-enhancing technology, not additional staffing, proposes Tony Benson, the co-founder of Sydney developer Bullant.

Competition reigns over domain

Internet registrar Melbourne IT claims first place in the race to secure non-western domain name registrations, but server standardisation hurdles still lie ahead, competitor NetRegistry has warned.

Giant portal opens for business

A superportal of 14 of Australia's biggest enterprises was announced yesterday, but officials say the venture will account for little more than 1 per cent of the nation's industrial expenditure.

E-security: Get better, says Retter

Poor security and robustness are threatening to cripple the broad deployment of the web, proposes PricewaterhouseCoopers technology director Terry Retter.

Ziggy goes straight down dot-com line

Internet giant Telstra practises what it preaches when it comes to devising and adhering to concrete company objectives, according to CEO Ziggy Switkowski.

Intel does latest chip by the numbers

The continuing popularity of e-commerce security technology SSL (secure sockets layer) may be the key to the success of Intel's latest processor offering, the Pentium 4.

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