The latest Net neutrality provisions in a mammoth Senate communications bill stopped short of giving Internet companies and consumer advocacy groups all the assurances they've requested.
Internet and telephone lines in Australia are experiencing the heavy burden of the horrific terrorist attacks on the United States, with an increase of 70 percent in net traffic and a 40 percent peak in phone calls.
Telstra today launched a competition to name its new 9,000km undersea fibre-optic communications cable running to Hawaii.
The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.
OptusNet customers say they are continuing to experience delays accessing overseas Web sites despite claims from the provider the underwater cable breakage which caused the difficulties had been fixed last night.
One in four respondents to an online survey have indicated that they have damaged or soiled items on the desktop because of cable entanglement.
If the sale of the SingTel Optus HFC network to the National Broadband Network Company goes ahead, it could mark the first significant strategic victory by the company since it lost the cable wars a decade ago.
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.
For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind.
With Internet Explorer's market share down to around 90 percent and support for Mozilla's Firefox growing daily, it begs the question, does Opera stand a chance?
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For the small-business customer, choosing the right mobile phone should always be a matter of substance over style.
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The pathways in your PC are more like back roads than superhighways, but new construction is under way. Emerging technologies such as AGP 8X, serial ATA, and PCI Express will help make room for more-advanced applications on the desktop.
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