As Telstra's Ziggy Switkowski waxes lyrical about the company's "strategic compass" and its push into Asia, I'm sure some of its customers will feel a little hard done by.
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Networking vendor Ericsson was forced to bring in international talent to match Telstra's gruelling 10-month schedule for construction of its "Next G" third-generation (3G) mobile network.
The Northern Territory has never re-awarded a contract for the supply of critical IT solutions and services for all its departments and agencies to an incumbent supplier.
One hundred thousand Telstra network faults have been exposed by the Opposition party, some dating back as far as 1995. However, the carrier denies any of them are ‘urgent’.
Say what you will about Senator Stephen Conroy, but he is clearly not a man afraid of confrontation. Well, he'd better not be, because by killing off the OPEL WiMax project he has just set himself up for a battle with Telstra of Biblical proportions or a big meal of crow washed down with a $4.7 billion gift to SingTel Optus.
Australians have a right to know exactly what the G9 is planning.
We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.
Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?
It has taken only four years for spam to become the bane of business but, as SMBs are finding, spam can be killed before it enters inboxes with the use of a hosted provider.
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Technology is allowing workers to stay in contact no matter where they are. How do you choose the right combination of hardware, software, data transport, and voice transport, then secure the whole lot and make sure your organisation is set up to take advantage?
The Sagem SG343i is an affordable Telstra i-mode solution that offers a basic yet adequate feature set.
The BlackBerry Pearl is designed with both consumers and business professionals in mind with its blend of multimedia features and reliable access to e-mail.
Vodafone Mobile Connect is a GPRS data service allowing your notebook to wirelessly connect to the Internet and send/receive text messages.
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Samsung's SGH 2400 is a successor to one of their more popular hand phone, the SGH 600. Apart from slight cosmetic changes, there is hardly anything that is worth raving about as this phone is almost the same as its predecessor. However this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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