CSIRO has sold its Funnelback search engine technology company to Australian content management company Squiz. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Telstra has added a business-to-business connectivity function to its Cisco Telepresence managed videoconferencing service, enabling businesses with the Cisco gear installed to set up ad-hoc videoconferences with each other.
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The Government's plan to provide $7m funding over four years to provide public Internet facilities in remote indigenous communities has been derided by a senior executive with 10 years experience in indigenous communications.
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Low earth orbit satellite operator Globalstar has been given a new lease of life, securing $US738m in funding that will enable it to launch its long-planned second generation of satellites. According to the company's Australian distributor, Pivotel, this will mean greatly improved communications for regional and rural Australia.
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Optus has announced that it D3 satellite, the ninth in a 24 year history of Australian domestic satellites, will be launched by Arianespace during August.
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Telstra has competed a trial of using RFID to track the movement of new cellphones from distribution centre to stores and estimates large scale rollout could save $4m per year and generate positive RoI in 18 months.
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The Government has called tenders for the construction, operation and maintenance of the first six locations to receive additional backhaul links under its $250m regional broadband backhaul plan. and is looking for contributions in cash or kind from bidders.
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Although the Federal government previously suggested that the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout would begin in Tasmania, the first round tenders are all for mainland facilities.
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A voice biometric system giving National Australia Bank customers enhanced security with their telephone banking has now been fully deployed by Telstra and Salmat working together using Salmat’s VeSecure solution.
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Australia has long
held a reputation of being a nation of sports fanatics but the country
is now rapidly adopting the mantle of being a land of crazed SMS text
fanatics. According to a new report, far from using SMS for just
essential services, Australians will text each other for anything and
at practically all life events - and hang the expense!
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The ACCC has brushed aside claims from Optus, Primus and other carriers that there are no technically comparable substitutes to ISDN and the Digital Data Access Services in regional and rural areas and has removed these from the list of 'declared' services, giving Telstra the freedom to raise prices, or to discontinue supply if it so chooses.
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Optus has revealed that its iPhone customers will have to pay extra to enable the new tethering feature. That's purely an access fee that's levied on top of the data charges.
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IBM appears to have belatedly discovered the massive global market for mobile applications and services, announcing plans to shift $100m of its R&D investment over the next five years into a "major research effort" that aims to "drive new intelligence into the underpinnings of the mobile web to create new efficiencies in business operations and people's daily lives."
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Nokia has appointed Carat, part of the Aegis Group, as the single global media partner to handle its media planning and buying on the strength of its digital capabilities.
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Optus has scored and eight year contract from the ABC worth $100 million for the continued provision of satellite services, but competition in the satellite market is getting tougher.
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TransACT, a provider of Internet, cable TV and telephony services in the ACT, has awarded wholesale communications provider, Vocus a contract to provide IP transit services that will be worth in excess of $0.5 million per year.
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