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RIM launches $US150m mobile apps fund

BlackBerry developer Research in Motion, The Royal Bank of Canada and Thomson Reuters are to launch a $US150 million venture capital fund to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms.

Basslink botch-up stymies Tasmanian broadband

The Tasmanian Government's hopes of breaking Telstra's monopoly of fibre access to the island have foundered with the owners of alternative capacity on the Basslink power cable playing hardball.

Big business puts mobile operators on notice over costs & service

Mobile data services are high priority for IT managers in global 1000 companies, but they are less than happy with roaming charges and with the level of support they get from mobile operators.

Fixed line phones threatened by mobiles and VoIP in Australian households

Many suspected it because of anecdotal evidence that often apartment renters no longer bother to connect fixed line phones. Now a new report confirms it. Nearly half of household consumers with a phone in Australia prefer to use their mobile phones as their primary means of voice communications.

iiNet grabs Westnet for $81 million in cash

iiNet will pay $81 million in cash for Perth-based ISP Westnet, taking its customer base to 470,000 and reinforcing its position as the third largest ISP in Australia.

Big names back new WiMAX operator

Several well-known IT and communications companies are behind Clearwire, a new company that plans a nationwide WiMAX network.

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Australian Opposition demands AG review of National Broadband Network tender

Australia's shadow communications minister, Bruce Billson, has issued a damning indictment of the Government's National Broadband Network (NBN) RFP process and has called on the Commonwealth Auditor General to conduct "an urgent, full and thorough investigation".

Optus spends up big to challenge Next G

Optus is to spend $315 million to expand its 3G/HSPA mobile coverage to 98 percent of the population: a figure which should give it a very close match to Telstra's Next G network.

In flight Internet: Intelsat and Panasonic to boldly go where Boeing failed

Two years after Boeing canned its service offering broadband Internet access to airline passengers, global satellite operator Intelsat has teamed up with Panasonic to launch a similar service.

India to get first direct cable link to the UK

Sixteen telecommunications companies have announced plans to build The $US700m Europe India Gateway (EIG) cable system that will give the booming economy of India its first direct cable link to the UK.

Australia jumps to number four in global e-readiness rankings

Australia has achieved a significant improvement in the latest edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranking of the e-readiness of 69 nations, jumping from ninth place in 2007 to fourth in 2008.

Nortel shuns LTE patents initiative, offers "competitive" royalty rate

Nortel has shunned an industry initiative designed to ensure that intellectual property disputes and licensing fees do not hamper the introduction of future mobile technology, but has come out with a licence fee for its own intellectual property that it says is competitive.

Small software developers: the Bluetooth SIG wants you

The Bluetooth SIG (special interest group) which oversees the short range wireless communications technology is reducing the entry barriers for small software developers wanting to create bluetooth applications promising them "significant cost savings in their earliest attempts to be competitive in the Bluetooth technology market."

Tasmanian Government strangling the Internet?

Australia’s southern island, Tasmania, has two fibre optic connections to the mainland, but with only one carrying consumer and business traffic, and the other apparently laying idle. With major ISP, Internode, ceasing the sign-up of new ADSL2+ consumer customers, is the Apple isle suffering affordable Internet denial?

A better way to measure broadband penetration; but...

The OECD is often criticised for the way it attempts to compare broadband penetration and usage in member countries. The Information Technology And Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has attempted a more meaningful comparison but it omits one very important parameter.

'Dial up' virtual reality as TelePresence takes off.

Cisco appears to be enjoying runaway success with TelePresence, its high-end virtual reality videoconferencing technology, with both AT&T and BT now planning to offer it to corporate client in a way that, Cisco claims enables user to set up virtual meetings with customers, partners and suppliers "with the ease of a simple phone call."

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