Communications minister Stephen Conroy and Tasmanian premier, David Bartlett have announced commencement of work on the Cambridge to Midway Point section of the NBN in Tasmania, but a Tasmanian company championed just weeks ago by Bartlett is not involved.
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The Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA) has created what it says is Australia's first video industry group "in response to the burgeoning industry opportunities and challenges represented by digital video."
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Telstra has signed what it says is its largest ever exclusive contract in the enterprise and government sector - a ten year deal with Coca Cola Amatil covering all CCA's telecommunications requirements.
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The New Zealand Commerce Commission has released its latest quarterly survey of broadband performance, showing significant improvements in http (web browsing) performance by the few ISPs that have invested in caching international content.
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Yankee Group estimates the market for mobile applications will be worth $US4.2b in the US alone by 2013, and it has some advice for developers on how to maximise their share of this revenue, becoming possibly "the next Bill Gates for smartphones."
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Sybase and Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN) have formed a partnership to deliver enterprise communications systems that integrate fixed and mobile devices and services.
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Nokia has joined founding members Cisco, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks and Microsoft as a founding member of the 15 month old Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI).
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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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