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    Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development.

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    The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) is proposing to monitor and report on provision of telecommunications services to remote Indigenous communities.

  • iiNet buys Internet service provision business

    iiNet Limited said it had entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the Internet service business operated by Virtual Communities Limited, a Melbourne-based retailer of bundled home computer and Internet services packages.

  • Aust school reunion site goes global

    Following the success of its Australian operations, popular reunion Web site, Schoolfriends.com.au, has announced expansion into Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, Ireland and New Zealand.

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    Customer communications outsourcing firm Salmat has appointed former Babcock and Brown CIO David Hackshall as its chief information officer, filling the vacancy left when Aaron Panozza resigned in May 2009.

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    Mobile, VoIP and geographic phone numbers

    Will we see mass adoption of VoIP calling on our mobile phones? Does VoIP over 3G provide the quality of voice call that we've grown to expect? Can we expect the mobile carriers to fight its adoption and control access on their networks?

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Do SMBs want unified communications?

    Where is unified communications headed? Will it eventually break out of the corporate space and attract the attention of business operators? If so, who will provide the service?

  • Read the blog post - Stilgherrian

    Holiday IT to-do lists

    The fast-approaching holiday season is a great time to update your IT systems while everything's quiet.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Conroy explains his magic filter

    In today's Twisted Wire, we put the screws on Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about his controversial internet filter policy.

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    On 1 July this year the new Mobile Premium Services Code was introduced. It sounds like it's had a good impact, but is it enough?

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    In the midst of the current Liberal emissions trading and leadership maelstrom, there exists numerous breaches in the shadow cabinet's line-up. Who will step up to fill the gap left by the fallen Senator Minchin?

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    Financial organisations are slowly embracing the notion of unified communications, but significant organisational hurdles remain

  • MIT's open communications campaigner

    Andrew Lippman thinks communities will be key to the future of communications tech.

  • What Telstra, others can learn from South Africa

    A mobile telecommunications revolution in Africa is bringing new economic opportunities to the world's most impoverished continent, while providing lessons that can help carriers around the world push into other low-value markets. Brad Howarth reports.

  • The road to convergence

    There's been a lot of talk about network convergence, the idea that data, voice and video traffic will one day travel over a single network. In this special report, we look at how Mount Erin Secondary College is tackling convergence and IP telephony goals at footy club the West Coast Eagles.

Videos (24)

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    Ratbags speaks to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about the internet filtering project.

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    Shadow Communications Minister talks about key issues in his portfolio: the National Broadband Network, the ISP filter and more.

  • Telstra's union on strike, NBN exit

    Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) national president Ed Husic talks about how Telstra's strikes are going and what Telstra's fall from the national broadband network process means to its workers.

  • Avaya: Lorie Buckingham, CIO

    Lorie Buckingham, CIO of telecom solutions provider Avaya, talks about the promise of unified communications for its more than one million business customers around the world. She also discusses her passion for technology and strategy for integrating innovative communication technologies.

  • 'Unified Communications' announced by Microsoft

    This week, Bill Gates took the stage in San Francisco to announce Microsoft's new line of software aimed at unifying voicemail, e-mail and business meeting technology.

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  • Avaya and Lenovo team up on VoIP

    Avaya and Lenovo have announced a partnership to enhance IP communications on ThinkPad notebooks, the companies announced on Wednesday.

  • Samsung OfficeServ 7100

    An impressive set-up well worth the consideration for any small office looking to bring their telephony systems into the 21st century.

  • Microsoft set to launch real-time server

    Microsoft on Thursday plans to announce that its Greenwich software will be renamed Microsoft Real Time Communications Server 2003, which it plans to roll out the first half of the third quarter.

  • Microsoft brings Office to business IM

    Microsoft has added the Office moniker to its upcoming enterprise instant-messaging software in a branding move intended to heighten the product's appeal to potential business buyers.

  • Yahoo pushes enterprise IM

    The Web portal begins a campaign targeting IT managers who have banned its product at work.

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