iiNet is planing to launch a suite of IPTV services tailored to enable it to offer something to all its customers: from those on a low speed resold Telstra ADSL service to those on ADSL2+ via its own DSLAMs.
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The IT and wider recruitment industry is in a downward spiral along with the rest of economy and the only way to arrest the slide is to try something new, including technology. These are the findings of new research.
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Not everyone who uses Linux today has done so because of carefully reasoning that it is a better operating system than the others on offer. People enter the Linux fold due to different reasons and those who stay there go through several stages of growth.
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Riding high in sales still, Nintendo announces its line-up to Christmas and some sales figures to gloat about.
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Just before the 26 November deadline for the National Broadband Network RFP Telstra appears to be trying to spook the government into backing down from its brinkmanship with the 'release' of market research purportedly showing that the voters are solidly behind the idea of Telstra building the NBN, but these research findings need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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The IT contracting and recruitment industries, as well IT vendors,already reeling from the economic downturn, have been dealt a devastating body blow by the Federal Government's decision to implement in full the recommendations of the recent Gershon Review. Contractor numbers will shrink by half and Government ICT spending will be slashed by more than half a billion over the next three years.
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Did the Labor Party factor this in when it costed the National Broadband Network at about $8 billion? According to NEC the costs in labour alone of cutting over telephone lines from the old telephone network to a future fibre to the node network could run to $100 per line.
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Nemertes Research is predicting a major 'stress fracture' of the Internet within four years that will see traffic migrating to private and semi-private networks when quality of service is important.
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Ericsson Australia has been chosen to provide the fibre optic transmission technology for the optic fibre cable running alongside the Basslink power cable.
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Looking for a new phone? Telstra has six of the latest models on the
way, in stores from December 1st, ready for the Christmas rush, and
ready for all those tempted by Telstra’s ads to get a better signal
with Next G in more places. Which phones are coming?
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Nokia’s N-Gage service has announced the arrival of EA SPORTS FIFA 09
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While a number of pundits are talking doom and gloom about jobs because of the economic downturn, the message from one of Australia's largest IT recruiters is surprisingly upbeat. Finite IT Recruitment says a number of huge projects are due to come online in early 2009.
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Ever taken sexy snaps with your mobile phone camera? Ever left your mobile phone in McDonalds? One guy learns the hard way that the two do not mix.
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While the US appears to be headed for the worst economic recession in decades, the mobile telecommunications industry appears to be immune, according to the latest research. In fact, according to communications industry analyst firm Ovum, the US mobile telecoms sector is headed for solid growth in the coming year.
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If iiNet loses the piracy lawsuit, the ramifications for all Australian
ISPs will be immense, forcing all to spy on their users and become
online policemen. It will wipe out online privacy, slow down the
Internet, impede the free flow of information, impose massive costs on
ISPs, impose massive costs on users, and put broadband progress back by
10 years in Australia. Can iiNet’s competitors – or indeed ISPs
worldwide – afford to let this happen?
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If only this worked it could have been the year's must-have Christmas gift for the gadget lover or the hard-to-buy-for. I'm talking about a pocket projector which on paper sounds brilliant: a tiny, battery operated, portable 10 lumens 640x480 video projector. Use it on the plane, the car, your roof, anywhere, without a care for power or weight. If only it worked.
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When Google launched a real time interactive 3D avatar world called Lively it promised the ability to express yourself in a more fun way. So why is it now dropping a bomb on Lively users by committing Second Suicide?
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Windows takes so long to boot up and shut down that some employers have started cutting pay for the 15 to 30 minutes that employees take to boot up their workstations at the start of the day and then shut them down when their shifts end.
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Starting November 22, Telstra will launch an advertising blitz
promoting its 3.5G “Next G” network’s superiority in speed, range and
services over the 3.5G networks of its competitors, in a campaign that
will run for months over a range of mediums.
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By virtue of its size alone Telstra is the subject of more complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman than any other telco. So when the TIO, concerned by the rapidly escalating volume of complaints, launches a campaign and promises to work with the industry to get the numbers down, what does Telstra do? Issue a press release in support? No, it launches an advertising campaign that is almost inviting consumers to complain - about the mobile services of its competitors. Opportunism perhaps?
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John Connor is back to battle Skynet in a new movie to videogame title based on the upcoming Terminator Salvation flick from Warner Bros. Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment give out some details on the game.
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The pundits seem to be trying to outdo each other with forecasts for broadband uptake. One thinks the world has now passed the billion user milestone, and Ericsson reckons that in five years time 80 percent of all broadband connections will be mobile, which would be a serious problem for the builder of the National Broadband Network.
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Rockstar Games have released the first details of the upcoming download material for Grand Theft Auto IV. Time to join a biker gang and take on Liberty City from a whole new perspective.
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I'm not one of those highly vocal GNU/Linux users referred to by my editor Stan Beer a few days back. But then I am definitely one of the "tinority" because I do use the operating system on my desktop - and anywhere else that I need computing power.
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Australian ISP iiNet is the subject of Federal Court action over claims
it is supporting or encouraging the illegal downloading of pirated
content, despite a “terms of service” agreement with its users that
prohibits the infringements of other’s rights, and intends to
vigorously defend itself in court.
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