With regional Australia continuing to protest federal government plans to privatise the remainder of Telstra, the telecommunications heavyweight has boosted efforts to appease residents in the remote west.
Singapore Telecommunications and its Australian subsidiary, Optus, have terminated an Internet peering arrangement with the Western Australian Internet Association's WAIX exchange, citing "a global network consolidation plan".
Western Australia's Department of Health has renewed its information management contract with a Fujitsu Australia-led consortium for five years under a deal worth AU$75 million.
Customers of Australian ISP, iiNet, faced a five hour service outage last night reportedly caused by an electrical storm.
The Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) has slammed an Internet censorship policy created by the Family First Party in the wake of Australia's biggest ever child porn bust.
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Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
It's official: Australia is an easy target for Russian crime gangs some are even turning Aussie lonely hearts into money mules. But are those "victims" actually guilty?
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Apple Computer today launched its long-awaited iTunes Music Store in Australia, finally giving iPod owners a legal way of downloading music online. Extra: A peek at other Web stores.
The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.
The level of ignorance from Australian politicians about technology can be staggering. Here's some of the worst examples we've seen, and a short recipe for resolving the issue.
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) hunt for Australia's third largest internet service provider iiNet is set to resume on Monday, with all eyes on its managing director Michael Malone as he takes the stand.
Core i7 is here in mobile form. Some vendors will be attempting to rush these laptops out as close to the Windows 7 launch as possible. Keep an eye out looks like the season to upgrade is well and truly upon us.
While the new HP Mini 110 is less expensive than the Mini 1000 and doesn't stray far from the same mould, there are some subtle design changes and they're not always for the best.
AMD's Phenom II processor is designed to boost the company's presence in the desktop market. But how does it fare against Intel's latest Core i7 (Nehalem) chip?
You'll pay a bit more for the privilege, but the Asus N10 is unique amongst netbooks for its discrete, switchable graphics and extra ports.
HP may have arrived late to the consumer netbook game, but by lifting the generous keyboard from last year's business-oriented model, the Mini 1000 easily joins the category's top tier.
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