Vodafone has launched Business One, possibly the most comprehensive integrated communications offering for small businesses to be offered as a standard package.
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In a deal worth $15 million, NEC Australia has inked a contract with the Federal Government to supply 2,000 broadband Internet kiosks to community centres for aged Australians across the country.
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Imagine running your own GSM network. You can! An upcoming presentation at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin will demonstrate a GPL-licensed implementation of GSM.
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In short, IBM isn’t scared of Linux, neither is Novell. Oddly, neither is Microsoft, after-all, they actually sell it.
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With a competing Australian ISP facing court action over copyright
issues, Telstra Media Group and BigPond MD, Justin Milne, has posted a
video chatting with Telstra’s Director of Media Communications, Andrew
Maiden, on the topic of copyright and online piracy.
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It really makes no difference whether a Howard Coalition or a Rudd Labor Government is in power, Telstra obviously considers itself answerable to no-one. What other conclusion can be drawn from the monolithic telco's action of answering the Government's RFP to build the National Broadband Network with a non-compliant 12-page document?
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Telstra’s Next G network is getting some of the hottest new phones, and
wouldn’t you know it, it’s just in time for Christmas. From a new
version of Telstra’s “Country Phone”, a new “simple” phone, to the top
new handsets from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, Telstra’s hoping
your next phone will be on Next G.
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Improvements to Google Maps' sometimes controversial Street View feature make it easier to images for a location on a map.
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Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has said there is no guarantee that the National Broadband Network (NBN) will cover 98 percent of Australians and businesses. The Minister made breathtaking admission under intense scrutiny from the media.
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Computer security behemoth Symantec has had its leadership position in
the Australian and New Zealand “secure content management market”
confirmed by analyst firm IDC, which says Symantec’s market share was
41.4% in 2007.
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Grass roots web-based advocacy organisation, GetUp, has launched a campaign against the Government's proposed Internet filtering scheme claiming it will slow the Internet by up to 87 percent.
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It looks like a software glitch may have been the cause of the recent problems some MacBook owners experienced when attempting to play standard-definition iTunes content on an external display.
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Fed up with letterboxed content in YouTube? The Google subsidiary's new player presents movies in the 16:9 widescreen format.
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The decision in the long-running court case between Novell and SCO over ownership of UNIX code is over. Finally. Novell really did own the SVRX code and SCO owes Novell lots of money.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed the proposals to build the National Broadband Network (NBN) - "one of the largest infrastructure investments undertaken by any Australian Government" - but has warned contenders that they face "an extremely competitive assessment process."
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HD video communications specialist LifeSize Communications has appointed Patrick Micallef as its country manager for Australia and New Zealand.
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I hope you enjoyed the brief respite from spam that was observed following the takedown of McColo, because levels are rising again.
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The dark horse in the contest to build Australia's National Broadband Network, Acacia Australia, has confirmed that it has lodged a bid and says it will exceed the RFP requirement of 12Mbps to 98 percent of the population by delivering at least this bandwidth to 100 percent "at an affordable cost" using a mix of technologies.
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Not satisfied with its own network of ADSL2+ DSLAMs, Internode will begin using Telstra's equipment next month.
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After promising for months that it would bid for the national broadband network the Terria consortium has been reduced to a supporting role in a bid from its dominant member, Optus, which through Optus Networks Investments (ONI), has submitted a bid for the NBN "backed by Terria"
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Telstra has provided the Federal Government with an outline of what it says could be achieved through the detailed bid it has prepared in response to the National Broadband Network RFP but which it has not submitted "due to a number of unresolved issues in the Government's Request for Proposals (RFP)."
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The latest Roy Morgan Research survey of customer satisfaction with ISPs shows that it fell to the lowest levels in more than five years during the year to September 2008, with Dodo rating well below any other ISP.
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The so-called $100 third world one laptop per child (OLPC) vision of Nicholas Negroponte has now become the around $700 (including GST and shipping charges) two-for-one "lap toy" Christmas promotion in Australia.
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iiNet has become the first Australian ISP to offer quota-free Xbox 360 game downloads.
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ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is entering the final stages of a four year process to open up the Internet to the creation of a (largely) unrestricted range of new top level domains (gTLDs), like .com, .net and the current 'country level gTLDs like .au
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