There’s never a good time for bank networks to crash – but Friday, when people are shopping or cashing up for the weekend is about the worst. National Australia Bank was today at full tilt to fix its latest computer headache which saw customers unable to use the ATM or Eftpos network for much of the day.

F5 has added desktop virtualisation to the range of applications accelerated by its BIG-IP application delivery networking products.

One of the major problems encountered by WAN administrators is streaming video - more so when it is encrypted for DRM.  Blue Coat has the answer.

Optus has announced prices for small business services offered over the NBN in the five first release sites.

Telstra is to offer, in coming months, an LTE version of the Cisco Cius Android based tablet, presently available only with WiFi and bluetooth.

St George Bank’s website reappeared on Monday evening after prolonged "technical issues” – although it remained possible while the web site was off air to log on and use the online banking and business banking services suggesting that the core banking systems (the Hogan platform supplied by CSC) weren’t affected.

Cisco has announced the addition of 100GBE and 40GBE ethernet capabilities to its Nexus Switches and 40GE to its Catalyst switches in anticipation of surging data centre workloads driven by cloud computing.

Traditional media companies the world over are grappling with what they should provide free online, and how and if they should charge for content. In Australia the two main print juggernauts News Ltd and Fairfax have switched strategies – with Fairfax now giving away free the content it used to charge for, and News locking up once free content behind a paywall.  A new global report released today by KPMG suggests it’s Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd that may have it wrong.

Nine major telcos, including Telstra, have joined forces to form the Global Meeting Alliance, dedicated to facilitating video communications between customers on their respective networks.

NBN Co is to launch a trial of its fixed wireless network service, starting in April.

AARNet has joined the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) - the body created by Polycom last June to develop telepresence interoperability across the networks of different service providers.

Forty five percent CEOs of a wide range of businesses have responded to a survey by saying they lack the skills and capabilities to take advantage of the NBN. Three years ago the figure was only 20 percent.

Australian shoe retailer Payless Shoes has contracted Primus Telecom to provide an integrated voice and data network, including a network based EFTPOS and hosted services for its 232 stores and Sydney head office under a three year deal valued at $1m. 

Seven Network has installed technology from US company Signiant to support high-speed and secure transfer of digital content with affiliates and US distributors.

Broadcom has announced what it claims to be the first chipsets supporting the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard and able to deliver gigabit per second bandwidth in the existing 5GHz WiFi spectrum.

Communications Alliance is planning to develop guidelines for the end-to-end performance of Internet Protocol networks, such as the NBN.

Nextgen Networks has announced completion of the Federal Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP), for which it was awarded the rollout contract in December 2009.

In news that will be music to the ears of staunch NBN opponent and fibre to the node advocate, shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, Huawei claims to have developed technology that deliver 1Gbps over a distance of 100 metres of copper telephone lines.

It took 55 days between the all-singing, all-dancing unveiling of the Commonwealth Bank’s Kaching iPhone App in October and its eventual arrival today on the iTunes store. It doesn’t leave much time for anyone hoping to do any Christmas shopping using the new peer-to-peer payment app.

The Australian Telehealth Network (ATN) has launched its video consultation services for GPs, specialists and aged care providers in partnership with BCS Global and Vidyo.