Telstra and Sierra Wireless have demonstrated 21 Mbps HSPA devices on Telstra's network, but Sierra admits there is much work to be done before its devices are ready for commercial service. Huawei, however is claiming to have demonstrated "the world's first commercial ready HSPA+ [21Mbps] devices," on PCCW's network in Hong Kong.
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Industry consortium Khronos Group has ratified the OpenCL specification designed to make it easier to exploit modern graphics chips for computational tasks. OpenCL was originally proposed by Apple and slated to appear in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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Microsoft's Christmas bonus for system administrators has arrived in the form of eight security bulletins. Six of them are rated 'critical' and a seventh is more significant than its 'important' rating implies.
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Look, everyone knew the day was coming, there is no escaping that fact. It doesn't make it any the more disappointing, but it should hardly be filed under surprise of the year: the Mega-D Botnet is back in action.
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Telecoms service provider Linkwell International has added a free mobile to Skype calling service to its 28TEL mobile communications service brand. The Hong Kong based telco claims its 'Mobile 2 Skype' service, which allows 28TEL users to call online Skype users directly through their mobile phones, is the first service of its type to be launched worldwide.
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Ericsson scored a double whammy this week announcing upgrades of HSPA networks in Australia and Scandinavia to 21Mbps, the first in the world, but it's not just the speed upgrade that matters.
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BitTorrent, the company that maintains the peer-to-peer Internet file sharing protocol of the same name, has partnered with Israel based caching solutions provider Oversi, to deliver an integrated P2P solution for ISPs. The companies claim the solution will deliver reduced bandwidth costs, deferred infrastructure investments and a higher quality subscriber experience.
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'Open source' isn't usually the first phrase that comes to mind when you hear 'Microsoft' (unless you're one of those who believes open source is always the answer to Microsoft), but the company has released an early version of an open source content management system called Oxite. Excited?
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AT&T has launched intercompany telepresence videoconferencing service based on Cisco Telepresence systems.
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Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra, has decided not to participate in the Australian Federal Government’s “Internet filtering” trial, primarily due to “customer management issues”, but might still implement filtering technologies in the future.
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Cisco is forecasting video to be the dominant consumer traffic on the Internet and has introduced a host of new technologies designed to transform networks into video-optimised networks and to facilitate the creation, hosting and distribution of video content.
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The Australian federal government has announced a co-ordinated trial of the use of blogs as a way of consulting the electorate on a series of issues. Will Australians blog on, or will they tell the Government to blog off?
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Optus has scored a four year contract from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIC) to provide 'whole of business' telecommunications services, worth an estimated $143 million.
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It's now very easy to answer that question. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched an online content checker designed to verify whether content on mobile web sites meets new standards for this type of content.
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At a time when most companies are happy if the balance sheet does not show any red ink, Red Hat Linux has bucked the trend. Its stock price leapt 32 percent last week compared to that a year ago, during a week when technology stocks overall fell by 2.6 percent.
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According to the head of Dimension Data Learning, the demand for IT skill training is holding up well in the current downturn, in stark contrast to the situation back in 2000.
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As the outrage continues to build in Australia over Government plans to introduce mandatory Internet filtering for ISPs, a furor has erupted in Britain over a number of UK ISPs blocking a Wikipedia page because of a complaint.
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MySpot V.3 “tracking and safety” phone software has been released for
Nokia and Symbian phones equipped with a GPS which can track workers
such as security guards, nurses, at-risk ex-hospital patients or anyone
needing the service, while also offering an “SOS panic button which
instantly shows the exact location” of the person pressing the button.
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A war of words has erupted between the Australian Local Government Assocation (ALGA) and the Federal Opposition following release by ALGA of it annual economic snapshot of Australia's regions which quantifies the considerable deleterious impact on regional Australia of inadequate broadband services.
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Vodafone has added PayPal to the list of ways its prepaid mobile customers can top up their accounts.
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Telemarketing might be big business, but Australians hate it - not least because it's costing $A1.58 billion a year in wasted time.
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Despite the fact that Firefox is seen as a safer browser than Internet
Explorer, the emergence of the latest Firefox malware Plugin shows that
a browser alone is not enough protection in a world of evil banking
Trojans, botnets, rootkits and crimeware.
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The IT&T jobs market continued its free fall across Australia in
November, with the two largest eastern states, NSW and Victoria
suffering large reductions in the number of jobs on offer, according to
a new report. The November figures add to what has been a dismal 2008
for IT&T on the employment front with an end to the decline still
nowhere in sight.
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With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make
the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant,
Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the
Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural
and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.
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Australia's Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, concerned at the rising tide of complaints about telcos' poor customer service last month launched a campaign to get them to lift their game, but Callcentre.Net's survey showing how poor customer service can lose them customers might get their attention rather better.
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