Telecom New Zealand has hit out at changes proposed by the NZ Government at the way phone services to uneconomic customers are funded under the telecommunications service obligations (TSO).
Since 1999 it has attracted bargain hunters, desperate shopaholics and the just plain lazy. Today eBay Australia marks its 10th anniversary down under, having sold more than 173 million items at a rate of one item every 1.8 seconds.
A New South Wales government project to simplify licence processes used by various government agencies is nine years behind schedule and $23 million over budget, according to the NSW Auditor-General.
Would-be successor to both Sol Truijillo and Ziggy Switkowski, David Moffatt has called it quits after eight years with Telstra.
The BBC has confirmed that its CIO, Keith Little, has departed after eight years with the corporation.
Telstra changed so much internally under Sol Trujillo's watch that it seems likely the company's next CEO will be drawn from a small pool of executives who are already well practised in the Way of Sol.
A reader suggested a key test to structural separation to compare shareholder return for BT with that of Telstra, providing a presumptive analysis of whether separation was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. This was a great idea that I had to try.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
Might I suggest that the government, which so far has handled the issue with kid gloves, take a chance for once and reach over and just pull the digital TV plug?
The world changes fast and many enterprises large and small fail to see the next wave or see it and dismiss it.
The remaking of the post-Trujillo era of Telstra continues apace, with Catherine Livingstone starting to put her own stamp on what was a fractious and fractured boardroom.
Ten years ago they were the young turks of Australia's business community; radical free-thinkers on the path to fame and riches. Shortly after, all those dreams came crashing down. But where are Australia's first dotcom moguls today, and what are they up to?
One.Tel backers James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch are unlikely to be tracking the latest career move by insolvency expert Paul Weston, but they know who he is and must dread what he is about to do. Thought the One.Tel legal action was over? Think again.
There appears to be no doubt that Windows 7 will be significantly more popular in Australia than Vista was, a reality that will help Microsoft entrench its wider software portfolio even further into the enterprise.
New Zealand's new Communications Minister Stephen Joyce has the gargantuan task of dragging New Zealand into the next broadband age, a labour which will take 10 years.
The new film, retells the story of the dot-com implosion in the summer of 2001. CNET.com's Kara Tsuboi met with August director Austin Chick and one of the movie's stars, Adam Scott.
Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".
Alienware's new version of the M17x makes some welcome design tweaks and offers the best laptop gaming hardware you can get. Just be warned: it ain't cheap.
Despite the promise of its tiny size, the Maxon Visimax projector is little more than a gimmick, and an expensive one at that.
They're big and quite ugly, but there's no doubting that Netgear's WNHDEB111 delivers in the 802.11n speed stakes finally!
It's sleek and it's sexy, but still must contend with issues from price to typing speed and wireless realities.
Underneath the sheen, what's Windows Vista made of? We take a detailed look at the recently delayed operating system.
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