The ACCC is to lead the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network's (IPCEN) annual sweep of the Internet to uncover and disrupt fraudulent website.
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Ericsson has unveiled a new mobile broadband module designed for embedding in consumer electronic devices such as e-book readers, GPS navigators, hailing it as one of the first of wave of new devices that will "drive the third wave of mobile broadband" into a wide range of non-computer electronic products.
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Unwired Australia has chosen DragonWave to supply the wireless backhaul for the mobile WiMAX network it is rolling out for associated company, Vividwireless in Perth.
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Unwired subsidiary ubowireless has taken out the top award at the Engineers Australia (Sydney Division) excellence awards but Unwired's hopes to commercialise the technology appear to have come to nought.
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For years mobile operators have dabbled with "home zone" technologies that enable them to apply a reduced tariff when a mobile is operating in its home zone, and thus compete with fixed line offerings. These have had limitations but Australian company Seeker Wireless reckons it has the problem licked with the latest release of its SeekerZone technology.
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Cisco has teamed up with Schneider Electric subsidiary, Pelco to develop high definition IP security cameras based on Pelco's Sarix that will be co-branded and sold by Cisco partners worldwide by the end of 2009.
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SP Telemedia (ASX: SOT) the ISP/telco formed in April 2008 from the merger of Soul and TPG) has announced plans for a set-top box to enhance its IPTV offering and plans to launch a home phone service.
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"Make the most of now" has been Vodafone's global marketing mantra for some years. And customers will have to make the most of it now, because it's being dumped in favour of "Power to you."
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Internode has become the first customer to test Pipe Networks' new PPC-1 fibre-optic cable, ahead of its official launch and is promising to revise its access plans to reflect PPC-1's lower connection costs to the US.
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The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, Deirdre O’Donnell, will step down at the end of 2009 to pursue her long held ambition to undertake doctoral studies.
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With the cost of winning customers estimated to be eight times the cost of retention, you'd expect retention to be top priority for businesses regardless of the economic climate, but Dimension Data's latest global call centre study suggests it has taken the global financial crisis to get industry recognising the wisdom in Simon and Garfunkel's sixties lyrics.
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Satellite services provider NewSat (ASX: NWT) has referred the dubious-looking takeover offer from EWC payments to the Takeovers Panel seeking a declaration of unacceptable circumstances on the grounds that the offer is a sham.
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The WiGig Alliance - the body formed earlier this year to promote standards for WLANs operating at 60GHz and delivering throughput of several gigabits per second - has announced five new members, bringing total membership to more than 20. Meanwhile the rival WirelessHD Consortium is gathering momentum.
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Iridium Satellite LLC - operator of a constellation of low earth orbit communications satellites - has formed the ProTECTS (Promotion of Two-way Emergency Communication and Tracking Systems) Alliance "to foster the rapid and orderly adoption of portable, two-way satellite-based location, tracking and messaging technologies."
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Cisco has ramped up significantly its efforts to be a major player in the smart grid market with the launch of its 25 member smart grid ecosystem, the formation of a customer technical advisory board and the creation of a new smart grid business unit.
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Australia's academic and research network today provides bandwidths well in excess of what the NBN will deliver, and cutting edge applications that exploit that bandwidth. CEO, Chris Hancock says they provide a foretaste of what the NBN will deliver to consumers and other users a few years down the track.
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