UK Telco Cable & Wireless has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 petitions under U.S. bankruptcy laws as a part of a dramatic down-scaling of its U.S. based operations.
Fibre optic cable can be found in some unusual places, as this photo exploration of London's Victorian sewers reveals.
New Zealanders may soon score a new high-speed cable link to Sydney boasting 240Gbps international capacity, after Pipe Networks announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kiwi telco Kordia.
The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.
Telstra has revealed it's already testing a 100Mbps upgrade to its cable network -- and may pursue a cable future if any federal decision on fibre-to-the-node does not go the company's way.
Somewhere along the line, it became assumed that xDSL technologies -- which run over the last-mile of wiring so tightly controlled by Telstra -- were the only way forward for Australian broadband.
What a week it's been for mobiles.
The mobile market in India, I recently learned, is racing towards 300 million -- and doing so at a rate of 8.77 million new subscribers per month, according to the latest government figures.
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.
Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.
One in four respondents to an online survey have indicated that they have damaged or soiled items on the desktop because of cable entanglement.
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The next-generation wireless technology could take us one step closer to the mobile nirvana of one bill for mobile, Wi-Fi and broadband connectivity.
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?
Tech Republic's Tim Landgrave, looks back on his predictions for IT activity in 2001 to see if he was on target. Here are his top five predictions and how they played out in 2001.
For the beige retail PC industry, there is a dark side to the idea of a PC as a whitegoods purchase.
Recently I asked how many of you still use a telephone line to connect to the Internet. The result? Plenty of you still use the good old standby, the dial-up modem. That wasn't really a surprise, although from what you read in magazines and on Web sites you'd think everyone already had a broadband connection.
You want music on the go? We've rounded up 12 MP3 players and put them head-to-head in our Australian review of the latest and greatest portable music devices.
Whether it's a mouse, keyboard or hub you need, we've got your plug-in needs covered with our Australian review of thirty different PC peripherals.
ZDNet Australia puts 10 of the best phones on the market today under the reviews microscope. Whatever your mobile needs are, we've got a phone to ponder for you, as well as a look at the first 3G phone on the Australian market.
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