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    The tendency for mobile devices to stay faithful to the first access point they connect to is leaving users with weak signals and awful throughput rates.

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    Microsoft and Fiat announced on Thursday a new initiative to jointly develop ways to integrate devices such as cell phones, handheld computers and digital music players into cars.

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    The Australian IT market has been dubbed "technologically mature" by Ericsson's consumer laboratory (ConsumerLab), following the release of the company's survey on the nations use and expectations from IT and telecommunications in the future.

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    Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".

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    During a recent trip overseas, I marvelled at how technology has radically altered the way we travel

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    It seemed like a good idea at the time

    Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

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    Will the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee's report linger as simply yet another ineffectual review guiding limp and ineffectual efforts to improve regional services?

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    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.

  • How Seven blew the internet Olympics

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  • Dumb Wi-Fi cleans up cabling

    Symbol's new wireless LAN uses dumb access points and a smart switch with power delivered through Ethernet to cut down on cabling.

  • Tech threats to Telstra can't be "strangled at birth": ACCC

    Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".

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  • A marriage from hell

    The tendency for mobile devices to stay faithful to the first access point they connect to is leaving users with weak signals and awful throughput rates.

  • Six wireless access points tested

    In recent months, wireless networks have received a boost as products based on the 802.11g standard--capable of 54Mbps--have come into the mainstream. Are you ready for fast wireless?

  • Corporate mobility: Six wireless e-mail packages tested

    There's an abundance of wireless-capable devices and a growing number of networks to service them. How do you make your corporate e-mail available to staff when they're out of the office?

  • What's next for wireless

    The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?

  • Security with bite: 15 technologies tested

    In this special review, we round up the various authentication devices on the market. From fingerprint scanners, to single sign-on software and biometric technology -- we have the authentication market covered.

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