Inclusive prices allegedly did not appear on Australian website.
AirAsia has blamed an IT issue that it identified and fixed four months ago for its legal dispute with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The competition watchdog lodged a complaint in the Federal Court on Tuesday, alleging the budget airline "did not display some airfare prices inclusive of all taxes, duties, fees and other mandatory charges"...

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Microsoft, Google, Britain irked by EU 'forget me' proposal.
Microsoft, Google and the British Information Commission's Office have warned that a proposed overhaul of Europe's data privacy regime may be unworkable. 

European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding detailed the EU's proposed changes to the 1995 Data Protection Directive on Wednesday, which aim to strengthen protections for individuals and raise the bar for companies trading in personal data...

Cloud-attached storage backup.
Amazon Web Services has launched a new offsite backup service that replicates in-house application data to the Simple Storage Service (S3) cloud. 

The AWS Storage Gateway, currently in beta, involves installing a virtual appliance -- initially VMware ESXi 4...

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Analysis: How large agencies are switching hardware alliances.
The Federal Government has revealed a 6.4 percent increase in the use of *nix servers among agencies that spend over $2 million a year on IT...

It was a tough quarter for chip vendor AMD (NYSE:AMD). AMD reported fourth quarter fiscal 2011 results late Tuesday that showed just how tough things have been.
For the fourth quarter, AMD reported revenues of $1.69 billion for a two percent year-over-year gain...

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On January 17th, Linus Torvalds committed a patch to the mainline Linux kernel for a memory handling flaw...

Dell OEM Solutions is partnering with SUSE to deliver Linux for embedded and customized solutions. The partnership is the first by Dell that will bring a certified Linux solution to its OEM customers.
eff Otchis, Americas marketing director for OEM solutions at Dell, explained to...

Virtualization is a growing business for VMware (NYSE:VMW). The virtualization vendor reported fourth quarter 2011 and full-year results on Monday that continue to show growth. Moving forward, CEO Paul Maritz has big plans for 2012, with a broader vision of virtualization.
For the fourth quarter, VMware reported revenues of $1...

Internode aligns prices with NBN products, iiNet to follow.
Internode has begun offering terabyte data quotas to residents in supported new housing estates for the first time in the latest of several changes bringing its greenfield prices in line with National Broadband Network offerings...

Service pack withdrawn.
MYOB has pulled the latest patch for its AccountRight accounting software package offline within four hours of release after discovering more bugs in the software.

The AccountRight upgrade, the first of the Australian vendor’s products to be ported to Microsoft’s ...

Cost reduction drive.
Vodafone Australia has confirmed it will embark on a restructure of the organisation in the "coming weeks" to reduce costs.

The Australian newspaper reported yesterday the contents of an email sent to staff by CEO Nigel Dews...

Hard disk prices won't return to pre-flood levels.
Western Digital (WD) expects hard disk drive production to return to full capacity by September 2012, but for the supply chain to remain constrained through to June the same year.

The storage giant painted an uncertain picture for the computer industry throughout 2012 as it aims to restock depleted inventory in conjunction with the launch of Windows 8 and more Ultrabooks, some of which will run both solid state and hard disk drives...

Pays $405,000, denies any wrongdoing.
HP has settled a long-running case over claims it knew thousands of laptop batteries were a fire risk long before disclosing the problem.

The vendor agreed to pay the US Consumer Product Safety Commission a settlement fee of $405,000...

Large-scale project brings four agencies onto single platform.
The Department of Human Services (DHS) has consolidated four separate enterprise resource planning systems into a single SAP installation for its 37,000 staff.

Departmental staff delivered the new SAP human resources (HR) and finance platform in November, after absorbing Medicare, Child Support Agency, Centrelink and CRS Australia in July...

Over the last several years, the Pwn2Own hacking challenge has become known as the place where browsers get hacked, sometimes within just a matter of minutes...

Intel is getting into the InfiniBand high-speed networking market in a big way today. Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) announced its intention to acquire InfiniBand technology assets from QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC) for $125 million in cash. The deal is set to close by the end of this quarter.
InfiniBand offers the promise of higher networking speeds and lower latency than Ethernet...

NSW, Queensland and ACT users affected overnight.
A fault in Cisco switching equipment on Dodo's core network overnight has been blamed for intermittent and downed connections for thousands of users overnight.

Dodo internet users in NSW, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory reported data browsing and authentication issues about 8pm last night...

THE clubs industry has held off promised pokies reform, citing the costs and difficulties of implementing software and hardware upgrades this year.
Julia Gillard has abandoned her deal with independent MP Andrew Wilkie for the introduction of a compulsory precommitment scheme for gamblers in all poker machine venues by the end of 2014...

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Chris Griffith reviews the Olloclip, a slip-on lens for the iPhone 4S.
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