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Week two of the Australian money management firm MyBudget's outage is coming to an end and there appears to be no end in sight to the company's woes, with the latest update, issued on Thursday night, informing world+dog that some of its client care members will be working on Saturday. Today (Friday) is the 13th day of the outage.

Google has now been fined nearly US$8 billion by the European Union, but the company seems to be undeterred in its mission to muddy the waters, issuing a riposte that is a mix of Orwellian statements, fact and fiction.

The news that the staff at NBN Co are paid handsomely from the public purse comes in the same week that a study showed chief executives' pay in the US to be up to 5000 times that of an average worker in the companies they headed.

NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, appears to be tired of hearing the same old "NBN sucks" story and has launched a bid to convince the populace that the experience of using the network is a positive one.

At 6.38pm on Tuesday, the Australian Taxation Office issued a media release to inform the masses about the fate of its online systems which had been down since Monday.

There's been a recent rash of ISP plans offering a monthly data quota of a terabyte or more. Now Internode claims it has the first "true" terabyte plan.

ISP Spin has trumped iiNet and Primus with the announcement of Australia's first 2TB ADSL2+ plan.

Alone among GNU/Linux distributions, Ubuntu has managed to project the impression that it is the best first choice for someone who wants to test the Linux waters. Put this down to slick media management.