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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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is to set up a global database that will log products' declaring conformity to ITU standards. The move is part of a wider ITU initiative designed to give purchasers of ICT equipment a much clearer picture of that equipment's ability to interoperate with other ICT devices.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will host a two-day broadband summit in Sydney next month to identify industry development opportunities and productivity windfalls that can be derived from the National Broadband Network project.
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Ahead of a busy annual general meeting in Sydney today, Telstra chief David Thodey said the company would drop its controversial $2.20 surcharge for customers paying bills over the counter.
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Cisco, EMC and VMware have formed a coalition to help enterprise customers build 'private cloud' virtualised data centres by offering a complete data centre package of integrated servers, storage, networking and virtualisation software.
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Telstra has unveiled a new blog site, Telstra Exchange, to replace its controversial Nowwearetalking web site, scrapped some months ago.
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More than a year after similar initiatives from Optus and Vodafone, Telstra has launched mobile plans that enable businesses to share usage quotas across multiple users.
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NetStar Australia has entered the market for data centre hardware software, consultancy and services with the formation of a specialist consulting division and new partner certifications from Cisco, VMware and EMC.
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