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  • Australia signs up with US and UK in spam fight

    Australian communication bodies signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with agencies in the United States and the UK in Washington yesterday as part of the latest international effort against spam.

  • America continues to spam the world

    The US remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which today released its quarterly report on the world's top spam-offending countries -- dubbed the "Dirty Dozen".

  • A friend in need...for only $5 a month

    It's the newest trend hitting the online auction scene and it's only getting hotter. Enterprising people worldwide are auctioning off their friendship on "the world's online marketplace" eBay, with the number of friendships available continuing to rise since the scheme received widespread media coverage last week.

  • Lasseters' sees online gaming increase

    Australian online casino Lasseters Corporation is thriving according to its net profit report for the 2004 financial year, with company claiming a 25.6 percent profit increase due to "significant cost savings".

  • Suspected piracy ringleader indicted

    The suspected leader of one of the Internet's oldest piracy groups has been indicted and his extradition from Australia is being sought, a US federal attorney said Wednesday.

  • Aust joins in global anti-spam effort

    Federal and state law enforcement agencies pledged to take an aggressive new approach to fighting spam: identifying "open relay" mail servers that serve as conduits for massive quantities of junk e-mail.

  • The road back from Silicon Valley

    Australian tech companies are just returning from strutting their stuff in Silicon Valley. But is the US really taking Australian technology companies seriously?

  • Aust developer targets US market

    Australian software developer Prophecy International has inked a partnership agreement with US solutions provider OTS, to gain access to the lucrative US federal government sector.

  • Ballmer backs Obama's leadership

    Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer this week said he had confidence in President-elect Barack Obama's leadership, during a whirlwind visit to Sydney.

  • CSIRO victorious in Wi-Fi appeal

    Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has come one step closer to defending its patent relating to several Wi-Fi standards, with defendant Buffalo Technology losing a US appeal on the matter.

  • Palin's email gets hacked

    Hackers have reportedly broken into US Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account and posted some of the contents on the internet.

  • IT outage delays US planes

    A computer glitch caused mass delays at airports across the United States, authorities said today.

  • Citrix hikes prices worldwide

    Virtualisation and remote access specialist Citrix Systems yesterday told customers it would hike prices by 10 per cent in all countries except the United States, due to the changing value of the US dollar.

  • Aussies pay more for Adobe Acrobat 9

    Australians can expect to pay close to forty percent more than their US counterparts for a copy Adobe Acrobat 9. However, Aussies are getting a better deal than their UK counterparts, who can expect to pay twice as much.

  • Microsoft sweats over Google-Yahoo ad deal

    Microsoft launched a campaign today to enlist supporters in its opposition to a new advertising collaboration deal between Google and Yahoo, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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