The Government says it will comply with a Senate motion seeking information on the circumstances in which senior Queensland Labor staffer Mike Kaiser was hired by the NBN Company.
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AT&T has launched, globally, a cloud computing service designed to "give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity."
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The Australian Greens have issued a dissenting report on amendments to the Telecommunications Interception Act, objecting to increased powers given to authorities to intercept internet messages for the purpose of protecting critical computer network infrastructure.
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The Coalition has raised the stakes in its campaign against the appointment of Queensland Premier Anna Bligh’s chief of staff Mike Kaiser to the NBN Company, filing a Senate motion to clarify whether any Ministers assisted the hiring process.
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Cisco has upped the price of its bid for global video company Tandberg from $US3.0 billion to approximately $3.4 billion after failing to secure acceptances from more than 10 percent of shareholder when the, already extended, deadline of its initial bid expired on 16 November.
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Korean cellphone maker Samsung has unveiled its own open mobile platform, dubbed Bada for touch screen based cellphones.
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US based Boingo Wireless - which provides wireless Internet access around the globe through arrangements with local WiFi hotspot operators - has added the 16,000 Tomizone hotspots in Australia, China, India, New Zealand and several Pacific Islands, to its global network.
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Curtin University of Technology researcher, Don Griffiths, has been awarded a government grant to develop a system that enables a secure computing environment to be loaded onto a USB memory stick and then used to provide secure access to corporate applications from any PC.
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The national broadband network will create new opportunities for mobile data, but the main game for the mobile carriers remains access to future spectrum allocations, Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association chief executive Chris Althaus says.
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After a slow start, New Zealand is poised to accelerate implementation of the next generation Internet protocol, IPv6, with the formation of the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force.
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Lebara Mobile - the UK based mobile service provider and recent entrant to the Australian market that specialising in providing low cost international calls from mobiles - has cut its already low rates to as low as one cent per minute for six destinations.
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Amazon Web Services - Amazon's cloud computing platform has announced plans to expand into the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010 with the introduction of regional infrastructure to support its cloud computing services.
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Telstra has unveiled a plan setting out how it intends to reduce its carbon footprint over the next six years, but the reported, and impossible, target of 10 percent for every dollar earned is not part of it.
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Optus has opened a mobile applications store that gives its mobile customers one-stop shop access to a number of other mobile applications stores.
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Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has defended the Rudd Government's record on micro-economic reform in the wake of its continued protection of the book publishing industry, pointing to the telecommunications reforms currently before the Parliament as a huge and challenging undertaking.
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Having filled many of the top tier positions reporting directly to executive chairman Mike Quigley, the NBN Company has embarked on a broad campaign to fill the next layer of technology management specialists.
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