Skype says the number of simultaneous users has hit the 20 million mark for the first time.
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Google is to acquire AdMob, a three year old mobile display ad technology provider, for $US750 million in stock, to enhance its expertise and technology in mobile advertising and to give its advertisers and publishers more choice in mobile advertising.
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Ericsson has opened a TV centre in Melbourne to support customer deployments of IPTV and mobile TV services throughout the Asia Pacific region.
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Telstra has named Glenice Maclellan as acting head of Telstra Consumer to replace group managing director, David Moffatt, whose resignation was announced in October.
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Both Telstra and Optus have selected US based specialist WMC Global to monitor mobile premium SMS services advertising and SMS message flows during services opt-in and participation to ensure these conform to their respective contract requirements and the industry code.
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AAPT has upgraded its bundled broadband and home phone Anytime Unlimited plan to include free local and national fixed line calls.
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Internode is inviting its tech-savvy ADSL customers to participate in what it says will be an Australia-first technical trial of IPv6 running natively on its national ADSL broadband network.
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New Zealand's Commerce Commission has accused Telecom New Zealand's Wholesale business unit of breaching its separation undertakings by discriminating between service providers.
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TiVo's Australian distributor says that unmetered access to TiVo content has now reached a "critical mass" of 20 percent of Australian broadband subscribers following iiNet's announcement that it will offer unmetered access to TiVo content from late November.
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Speculation is running high that SP Telemedia (Soul/TPG, ASX: SOT) is about to make a takeover offer for Pipe Networks (ASX: PWK). Both companies requested trading halts within minutes of each other on Wednesday 4 November and then requested suspension of their shares almost simultaneously on Friday 6 November.
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Just as movie downloads hit the headlines in Australia through the AFACT/iiNet case in Sydney, the European Union has passed into law a set of internet rights to protect users from arbitrary crackdowns on people who illegally download music and movies.
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Threatened strike action at Telstra over a pay dispute has been called off, with the Unions saying negotiations with the company had produced “some positive indications.”
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Sybase has released new device management, relational database synchronisation and mobile banking applications for the iPhone that it says extend functionality for both internal employees and external end users, enabling organisations to adopt iPhone as a strategic platform.
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Lucent and number of partners have produced a demonstration 'connected-car-of the-future' by integrating a number of state-of-the-art communications and other technologies into a single vehicle.
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Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has introduced a security device for Android phones that fits into their microSD card slot enabling applications on the phone to be protected by two factor authentication.
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Perth based Ipernica (ASX: IPR) is poised to launch a new media company based around high resolution digitised terrain maps, that it says will compete with Google Maps and with Microsoft Bing.
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