Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's role in helping a Labor powerbroker land a plum job with the national broadband network.
Optus director of government and corporate affairs Maha Krishnapillai said today that although it planned to work with other internet service providers and the government on preventing internet piracy, it did not believe in sending alleged infringement notices to users.
Politicians have complained about an overly zealous web filter installed in Canberra's Parliament House, with one Liberal senator saying its glitches didn't bode well for the planned mandatory internet service provider level filtering.
The telecomms industry ombudsman (TIO) confirmed today that its website was infected by malware yesterday, forcing the website offline.
Microsoft has already nabbed its first Australian customers for its multi-touch tabletop system "Surface", with Western Australia's Curtin University of Technology and ANZ Bank flagging plans to deploy the hardware.
Canberra-based telco TransACT opened a third datacentre in the nation's capital last week.
Finally Telstra is moving in the right direction. With the stupid excess removed, takeup of their wireless is bound to accelerate. Just a shame I don't have coverage on the Central Coast...
From: Telstra drops wireless excess charges
The nation's number two telco Optus today said it was on schedule to upgrade the speed of its hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to 100Mbps by mid-2010.
SA Transport Minister Patrick Conlon announced yesterday that Adelaide will have an electronic public transport ticketing scheme by 2013.
The federal opposition has labelled as corrupt the process used to appoint a former Labor MP to a highly-paid job with the national broadband network.
National Broadband Network (NBN) chief Mike Quigley has revealed that the NBN Co has been hiring more operations staff in Melbourne than Sydney, adding fuel to an ongoing rivalry.
Australian internet service providers are increasing their purchases of ADSL equipment, according to Ericsson, despite the potential for the construction of the National Broadband Network to make such investments irrelevant in the long term.
NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley said yesterday in Senate Estimates that his company was on track to start rolling out the national broadband network to certain homes on the mainland in the second half of this year.
Internet service provider Exetel announced yesterday it would change the way it forwarded alleged copyright infringement notices to customers.
Mincom's trimmed headcount has put it under the microscope over the last year; however, the company's CEO Greg Clark has said that its Brisbane research and development centre "isn't going anywhere" and that a slimmer employee base didn't mean reduced capacity.
NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley picked Mike Kaiser, former advisor to Queensland Labor Premier Anna Bligh, as NBN Co government relations and external affairs chief following a suggestion by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
In an IT jobs triple-whammy, three Queensland executive IT positions were advertised over the weekend for the University of Queensland, Queensland Urban Utilities and Allconnex Water.
Telecommunications provider Amcom has scored a $20 million contract to provide telecommunications services to the Northern Territory Government over a five-year period.
Retailer JB Hi-Fi has announced that chief executive Richard Uechtritz will step down in July/August this year as the company reported a 29 per cent increase in net profit for the first half of 2009/10.
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