Take a look at what ZDNet Australia readers have checking out this year, with our list of the most read blogs of 2007.
Will the AU$3 billion Connect Australia package stimulate bush broadband or simply fatten up some of Australia's existing telcos?
One could get the impression that Unwired's competitors are a little worried about the wireless carrier's entrance into the Melbourne market yesterday.
Network bottlenecks and downtime can ruin an IT manager's day. The right skills and tools can help you identify and fix a problem quickly. Here are some techniques and tools to help you out.
There's no question data volumes are growing; how long will it be before 100 megabits isn't enough? ZDNet Australia evaluates the performance benefits and cost effectiveness of gigabit Ethernet over copper and fibre.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
Not everyone takes "no" for an answer when told they're stuck in a broadband blackspot.
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.
There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.
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.
If you're about to build a new Ethernet network or upgrade an existing one, be sure to consider installing an infrastructure that will support 10Gbps bandwidth, even if you don't need that much speed right now.
Network bottlenecks and downtime can ruin an IT manager's day. The right skills and tools can help you identify and fix a problem quickly. Here are some techniques and tools to help you out.
If a car starts to stall, drivers would pop the bonnet and check the individual components. But when a network goes down, how are the weak points identified and isolated?
There's no question data volumes are growing; how long will it be before 100 megabits isn't enough? ZDNet Australia evaluates the performance benefits and cost effectiveness of gigabit Ethernet over copper and fibre.
Are you ready to roll out Voice over IP? This article provides you with an overview of VoIP basics and some starting points for evaluating your company's needs. Additional reading: VoIP Resource Centre
Samsung's ML-2851ND is a bare bones mono-laser printer with a few extra features attached that will appeal to the small-to-medium business crowd that simply needs to print out text documents or light graphics. The AU$330 price tag is higher than average for a monochrome printer. Still, if print speed and print quality are deciding factors for you, consider the Samsung ML-2851ND.
HP's ProCurve 2610-24-PWR is not cheap for a 100kbps switch, even with PoE, but it has plenty of features and is a quality machine.
The Canon Pixma MX850 is a small, versatile multifunction printer suited to a small office looking for a cheap, do-it-all machine. It offers a broad range of features and reasonable document print quality, but don't expect top quality colour prints.
The Fluke NetTool is an easy-to-use, effective way of testing network cables (Cable Testing), network connectivity between desktops and networks (Inline Mode), and PC configuration.
Complacency by one Internet provider left them with a poor result in our tests but what if this wasn't a test?
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategi… Watch it now
MyPerfect.com.au has potential
Storage infrastructure on the tender track
Apple has killed the video store; will ISPs be next?
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Superguide: Printers -- all you need to know
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Storage and server superguide
Over the last decade the art of maintaining the datacentre of a large organisation has evolved into an art form.
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