2011 was the best year ever at VeriSign for new domain registrations. VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported fourth quarter fiscal 2011 and full year results on Thursday. The results come during a period of pending transition in the Internet domain business, as the new gTLD process begins and as VeriSign's agreement with ICANN to operate the ...

Partial shift off Tax Office infrastructure.
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has made its first moves to separate from the Australian Tax Office's IT environment, calling for a cloud computing solution to serve as its primary ICT infrastructure...

Sony has introduced additions to the line of players, Walkman B Series Walkman B170. Like its predecessors, it's pretty simple in functionality, MP3-players, sharpened it on the music. The series includes four models - NWZ-B173 NWZ-B173F and 4 GB of internal memory and with the NWZ-B172 NWZ-B172F 2 GB of internal memory. Between themselves and the NWZ-B173 NWZ-B173F and NWZ-B172 NWZ-B172F to differ with FM-tuner with recording capability in the models and the NWZ-B172F NWZ-B173F...

Just recently, we mentioned the intention of Samsung Electronics to begin mass production of its newest "system-on-chip" Exynos 5250 in the next quarter. And now there are rumors that the South Korean manufacturer may provide a framework of Mobile World Congress 2012, which will take place in the coming February in Barcelona, a tablet computer (or at least its prototype), built on the basis of the productive dual-core processor...

In another patent application, Apple, which has become the property of the public network, it is a further development of technology, MagSafe, debuted in 2006 in a notebook MacBook Pro. According to information published in the company from Cupertino reflect on the use of functionality like the MagSafe adapters sold in not only branded laptops, but in a more compact electronics, for example, the iPhone and tablet iPad...

In another achievement to be congratulated on the team forum XDA-developers Forums, regularly delight us with interesting summaries of hacker fronts. This time, a playful pen enthusiasts got there the 10.1-inch tablet PC ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which we write regularly in the news. Despite the fact that this tablet comes with a blocked until the boot loader (tool to unlock it promised only in February), the hackers managed to run on the device operating system, Ubuntu Linux, aimed at the desktop and laptop computers...

Philippine share HardwareZone.com.ph received little opportunity to "play" with the new smartphone from the company Samsung Electronics, which has not yet been officially presented. It is a model called the Samsung Galaxy S Advance, which also has a marked GT-I9070. According to some earlier posts smartphone with the number of GT-I9070 will be released in China this year, but HardwareZone naturally suggests that China is not limited to, otherwise the novelty would not have fallen into their hands in the Philippines...

Coalition distances itself from internet filtering proposal.
The federal opposition has formed an online safety working group tasked with developing a policy for protecting children online.

The group will be chaired by former Optus executive and Liberal MP Paul Fletcher, and consult with the public on previous Coalition cybersafety policies...

Seek commercial partners for network security technology.
Melbourne-based researchers are looking to commercialise a search algorithm that analyses networks to identify the most easily exploitable vulnerability chains.

The algorithm was developed by Swinburne University associate professor Hai Vu to help network operators prioritise how they protect networks that are unfortunately "never 100 percent secure”...

Customers warned against using pcAnywhere pending fixes.
Symantec is advising users of its pcAnywhere remote access product to disable the software if they don't absolutely need it.

The company this month confirmed that hackers stole a portion of its source code dating back to 2006...

'Elephant in the room' rears its head.
Major internet service providers have opposed significant tenets of the proposed regulatory framework for the National Broadband Network.

In a rare example of solidarity between the current incumbent Telstra and its rivals, the telcos called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to reject NBN Co's special access undertaking in its current form...

Comment: Cyber espionage is a real and present danger for every form of organisation.
The nuclear standoff of the 60s may be behind us, but a new cold war, or rather code war, has started to grip the globe.

Only recently, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said there has been an alarming rise in attacks by criminals on businesses, individuals and states, states on states, and terrorists on states and organisations...

Nearly 100,000 sue over five breaches.
The University of Hawaii (UH) has settled a class-action data breach lawsuit brought by nearly 100,000 students, faculty, alumni and staff, according to the plaintiffs' lawyers.

The suit relates to five breaches in all, including one involving the inadvertent posting online of personal information by a faculty member who accidentally uploaded sensitive files to an unencrypted web server...

Makes second play in infosec market in as many months.
Twitter has made another stake in the security space with the acquisition of anti-malware company  Dasient.

The  "web anti-malware" provider in 2009 launched an online platform to search for malicious content in websites and hidden in advertising...

Temporary cable for 400 homes.
Telstra has sped up plans to reconnect some 900 premises in North Bundaberg to fixed-line services by Wednesday this week.

North Bundaberg residents have experienced repeated outages to broadband and telephone services since early December due to a damaged connection underneath the Burnett River...

Further slippages could imperil desktop consolidation.
The Department of Defence has revealed the migration of its primary data centre to Sydney's Global Switch will take eight months longer than anticipated.

A Defence spokesman said the deadline for migration into Global Switch had slipped from March to November this year...

As HP releases webOS javascript application framework.
Jon Rubinstein, former Palm chief and head of HP's mobility, has left the company as it ramps up its webOS open source program. 

Rubinstein, who gained notoriety for his work on Apple's first iPod, joined HP through its 2010 acquisition of Palm and from there headed up HP's efforts to develop webOS and its failed TouchPad...

Class action brewing for legitimate Megaupload users.
Spain's Catalonian Pirate Party will attempt to launch a class action against the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for "misappropriating personal data" during the closure of the Megaupload file locker...

Lobbies for competition watchdog inquiry.
A consortium of greenfield fibre operators will escalate allegations of anti-competitive behaviour levelled against NBN Co, after a Productivity Commission investigation resulted in no action.

The Greenfield Fibre Operators in Australia (GFOA) lobby group - comprising operators OPENetworks, Comverge Networks and Service Elements - plans to make a formal complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in "the next few weeks"...

Sony and the company "Digital Systems", a member of the Group of Companies «DIGIS», will soon be released in Russia projector VPL-VW1000. According to the company, the world's first and only currently theatrical 3D-projector with a resolution of 4K (3840x2160 pixels). There can not remember the line of proctors JVC, which must be sold in Russia since December last year, however, in contrast to the model Sony, they are designed for home theaters...