WorldCom Australia: 'Business as usual'
WorldCom Australia has stressed that services to its local customers will not be affected after the decision by its parent company to file for bankruptcy protection in a US court overnight.
WorldCom Australia has stressed that services to its local customers will not be affected after the decision by its parent company to file for bankruptcy protection in a US court overnight.
Open Telecommunications has gone into voluntary administration after directors failed to raise much needed capital from the sale of a core part of its business.
Building an infrared telescope that takes detailed shots of galaxies requires lots of time, planning and nous. And for the University of New South Wales' School of Physics such a project starts small: with a 100mm cube PC/104 486 Intel machine buried seven metres under Antarctic ice.
Opera Software ASA on Wednesday released the final version of its Opera 6.0 for Linux browser.
An audit report tabled in Federal Parliament yesterday has criticised the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) over its handling of an IT outsourcing contract with its partner, IBM Global Services Australia (IBM GSA).
Some users of the CommSec share trading site Friday were asked to hand over unexpected profits made earlier in the day, after it was discovered shares for mining giant BHP Billiton were undersold.
For those of you who don't remember Iridium, its history (barring the past 12 months) has been an impressive disaster. Iridium was launched in 1992 and is a low earth orbiting system. Specifically, there are 66 satellites orbiting the earth at 780 km which provides voice/data coverage at any given time to anyone anywhere on the earth Iridium was initially backed by Motorola to the tune of $US4.4 billion but after all the marketing hoopla, and no customers -- largely because it found too few people willing to pay high prices (as much as $11 per minute) for global phone service as well as using clunky satellite phones -- the satellite company started nose-diving quickly and soon was out of pocket.
For those of you who don't remember Iridium, its history (barring the past 12 months) has been an impressive disaster. Iridium was launched in 1992 and is a low earth orbiting system. Specifically, there are 66 satellites orbiting the earth at 780 km which provides voice/data coverage at any given time to anyone anywhere on the earth Iridium was initially backed by Motorola to the tune of $US4.4 billion but after all the marketing hoopla, and no customers -- largely because it found too few people willing to pay high prices (as much as $11 per minute) for global phone service as well as using clunky satellite phones -- the satellite company started nose-diving quickly and soon was out of pocket.
Optus has confirmed that police have arrested a former Optus employee who broke into an Optus program database.
Telstra's BigPond Cable and ADSL services were running smoothly on Monday after its broadband network was struck by a Denial of Service attack over the weekend.
Servers housing Microsoft SQL are being actively manipulated by a new worm to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against IRC servers and various other sites according to a posting on the Incidents.org Web site.
As an indication of the growing popularity of MySQL, one of the more popular open source databases, MySQL AB, the company behind the MySQL database server, is holding its first MySQL training session in Sydney this week.
Despite Microsoft saying its Windows XP operating system is markedly more secure than previous efforts, IT security firms have warned users they will not have to wait long for the first XP-targeted virus attacks.
With the announcement Tuesday of its multibillion-dollar merger with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard has sounded a warning to global IT leader IBM.
A press release just posted on the Hewlett-Packard Web site has confirmed earlier press reports stating the company has entered into a $47.5 billion (US$25 billion) agreement to acquire rival IT vendor Compaq.