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by Stuart Corner
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VoIP service provider MyNetFone has introduced a feature that enables customers to have their mobile or PSTN line number show up on the called party's phone when they make outgoing calls from their VoIP service
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by Peter Dinham
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Fresh from a reported liver transplant and firing on all four cylinders, Apple’s Steve Jobs spruiked that customers are “voting with their feet” as he announced that more than a million of the iPhone 3GS models were sold in three days and six million of the new phone buyers have downloaded the 3.0 software in the five days since its release.
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by Stuart Corner
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The ACMA has released results of its survey of consumers' and SMEs' satisfaction with fixed, mobile and broadband services reporting high satisfaction levels with most services, but noting also a very large increase in the level of complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.
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by Stuart Corner
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Infrastructure based telecoms service provider, Telarus, launched a virtualised cloud computing platform based on VMware virtualisation software, EMC storage and IBM servers billing tight integration with its MPLS network as a key customer benefit.
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by Stuart Corner
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Enterprise mobility technology company, Agito Networks, has ported its VoIP over WiFi technology onto the BlackBerry enabling BlackBerries to be integrated into enterprise unified comms systems that use WiFi networks to enable cellphones to double as handsets of the enterprise IP PBX/unified communications system.
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by David M Williams
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You are a level 10 character. You have a quest to kill 10 mottled boars which yield 120 experience each. The quest reward is 1000xp. How many extra boars do you need to kill to level up? Yes folks, World of Warcraft is the new educational medium.
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by Stuart Corner
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Telstra's New Zealand telco subsidiary, TelstraClear, is planning to offer a custom-developed digital video set top box/ personal video recorder to its cable TV customers.
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by David M Williams
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Microsoft seems bent on making netbook users know they’re running the cheapest version of Windows 7. After relenting on the previous restriction only three apps could run at one time the company now will lock the operating system desktop so the default wallpaper can not be changed.
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by Sam Varghese
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New Zealand is moving towards allowing unlimited software patents in the country. The first reading of the bill, which is now at the select committee stage, resulted in 107 votes for and only 14 against.
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by Stuart Corner
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The Open Patent Alliance (OPA)- set up a year ago to promote mobile WiMAX technology through a pooling of key patents - has issued a call for patents and has selected Via Licensing Corporation to facilitate the formation and administration of the pool on its behalf.
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by Stephen Withers
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Panasonic's latest Toughbook mobile computer is designed specifically for the health industry. Features of the Toughbook H1 include an easily sanitised shell.
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by Stuart Corner
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The Australian Federal Government has set up a taskforce to investigate how it can use new 'Web 2.0' approaches to expand the uses of Commonwealth information and improve its consultation and engagement with citizens, and it has given it $2.45m, courtesy of Microsoft, to put its ideas into practice.
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by Peter Dinham
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The Australian Computer Society wants greater government incentives in New South Wales to attract investment in the state’s ICT industry.
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by Stuart Corner
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Optus has unveiled its pricing plans for the new iPhone 3G S ahead of the new phone going on sale on Friday. Its headline offer is a 32GB version at $0 on a $99 per month plan that offers unlimited calls and text and 1.5GB of mobile Internet browsing on a 24 month contract, but with some interesting limitations.
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by Peter Dinham
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Unisys has inked a $25 million contract to continue providing a baggage reconciliation system for 44 international airlines operating from eight Australian international airports.
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by Peter Dinham
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IT Services provider ASG Group, has secured a five-year, $13 million contract to provide application management services to Qantas.
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by Stuart Corner
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Optus is going all out to capitalise on being the first carrier in Australia to bring the new iPhone to market, with the installation of an inflatable demonstration centre at Sydney's Circular Quay and and four days of presentations from celebrity iphone users extolling the virtues of the device and its applications.
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by Sam Varghese
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Should FOSS users be concerned about the software they use, in case it opens them up to copyright, trademark or patent claims? Or should such concerns be left exclusively to developers?
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