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  • Optus's Asian access still patchy

    Access to some Asian Web sites continues to be erratic for Optus broadband customers more than a week after major earthquakes damaged undersea cables off the coast of Taiwan.

  • Telcos push service relief for fire-ravaged Canberra

    Australia's telecommunications companies have moved quickly to ensure thousands of Canberra residents whose property has been damaged or destroyed by bushfires have access to telephony services.

  • Google and SingTel link up for US$300m cable

    Google has joined SingTel and four other carriers to build a new high bandwidth submarine cable system between the US and Japan, in a move to address its broadband capacity needs.

  • SingTel builds pan-Asian cable

    SingTel, together with five other regional telecommunications carriers has built the first overland cable linking China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

  • Optus, SingTel, Telecom NZ strike cable deal

    Three of the region's biggest telcos will form a powerful alliance to build a new telecommunications cable system between between Singapore and Sydney.

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    Running a virtual private network can save you money on leased lines, but can also create a lot of work. Can managed VPN services save you the trouble?

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    Videoconferencing at the beach may still be a pipe dream, but the mobile workforce is here today. ZDNet Australia examines how businesses are reaping the benefits of mobility.

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    Now that wireless is becoming technologically and financially competitive with its wired equivalents, the strongest argument of all to cut the cable is convenience. New standards in speed make wireless networking a valid choice.

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    The Timeport P7389i isn't as pretty as its other V-series cousins - nerdy and drab looking, it is aimed at corporate users or the globetrotters who value functionality more than design.

  • Upwardly mobile

    Videoconferencing at the beach may still be a pipe dream, but the mobile workforce is here today. ZDNet Australia examines how businesses are reaping the benefits of mobility.

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    StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
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