In the face of industry-wide criticism, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has reverted to its old pricing schedule and released a discussion paper on how it should value Telstra's network in the future.
A number of Oakton employees working within one of its projects, the Victorian Industry Plumbing Commission, resigned en masse last week.
The Federal Government will ignore a coalition-dominated Senate committee's call for a cost-benefit analysis into the National Broadband Network (NBN).
New Zealand Communications Minister Steven Joyce has given the country's former monopoly telco Telecom NZ an extension on its deadline for overhauling its IT systems to deal with mandated separation of its operations.
Controversial CenITex executive Thana Velummylum has again entered into a contract with the Victorian shared services agency for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Getting Senator Stephen Conroy's regulatory reform for the telecommunications industry through the parliament would need support from the Senate. On Twisted Wire we ring around to see which parties are supportive and which are against.
IE may be the quickest browser to load pages, but this is not a 100m dash; seems like someone has forgotten to tell Microsoft that there is another 300m of JavaScript to go until this race is over.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
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.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
Australia's IT services market has come through its relatively mild financial crisis relatively unscathed, and certainly in much better shape than it could have ever anticipated.
The story of how Telstra lost its network is one of hubris and bungling, of misreading the play in Australia by men from the US who thought they knew everything already. Shareholders should never forget this.
While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.
Sol Trujillo's payout disclosed in Telstra's remuneration report attracted a lot of attention as soon as it was released. But the real story in the report is about the over-the-top pay deals stitched up by Trujillo before he left.
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
It's a hands-on preview of Snow Leopard with a few goodies Apple hasn't shown off; iPhone 3GS' are now available in colors, thanks to overheating; and the iPhone 3.1 software beta is revealed!
Asus' inexpensive 802.11n router is a bit of a bargain, although it does also bring with it some bargain basement sensibilities.
Asus' high-end wireless router has plenty of throughput grunt, but we do wish the company would offer better support documentation.
iiNet customers who yearn for a simple networking life will do well out of BoB, although like most routers, it's not without its quirks.
Not much doing here in Touch-land. A new 64GB model, no 16GB unit and price cuts for everyone! Oh, and a bit more performance.
Lenovo's ThinkPad T400 is another fine entry into its portfolio, but be prepared to spend extra to get the features you need.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
Vice President of Product Marketing Sundar Pichai gives a virtual tour of Google's new operating system, Chrom… Watch it now
Malcolm Turnbull's ghost twitterer
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Surf the Net like it's 1991 with Gopher
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