The Tasmanian Department of Education has selected Symantec Endpoint Protection to secure 40,000 personal computers and 700 servers, replacing an older version of the Symantec system.

If you are fortunate enough to be in the far southern hemisphere on Friday November 25, 2011, you will have the opportunity to see a partial solar eclipse.

Australia's embattled prime minister, Julia Gillard, seems to be clutching at good-news straws. She has today 'launched' the stage two NBN rollout in Tasmania, in Kingston Beach. But it has in fact been underway for some time, did not start in Kingston Beach and is behind schedule.

There seems to be no stopping the scam artists as they move from state to state attempting to extort money from naive computer users.

The dodgy types among us are rarely slow to spot an opportunity. Tasmanians are being warned of a possible NBN scam.

Although the Labor Party is meant to be one “of the people”, the Tasmanian Labor Government has seemingly made little effort to actually connect its public schools to the people’s national bloody network.

Optus is to spend $25m upgrading its mobile network in Tasmania, tripling to 100 the number of cell sites in the state , giving it coverage of 96 percent of the population and creating the first significant competition to Telstra.

NBN Co has released of the planned NBN rollout in the next seven towns in Tasmania – Deloraine, Kingston Beach, George Town, Sorell, South Hobart, St Helens and Triabunna, some 11,000 homes in total.

NBN Co is ramping up its efforts to 'sell' the benefits of the NBN to end users, releasing a series of case studies of NBN usage by Tasmanians.

Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has announced the appointment of Darren Alexander, CEO of Tasmanian company Autech, to the NBN Tasmania Board.