Within a month of the birth of Channel Seven's WiMax internet service provider, vividwireless, Telstra had welcomed it with "cease and desist" letters over its use of the term "4G".
Westpac said today in an update on its transformation and integration with acquisition St George that it would transition to the "next generation of Hogan" as its deposits platform.
Over the coming weeks Nextgen boss Phil Sykes will be touting a new pricing regime for regional backhaul, which the telecoms industry hopes will undercut Telstra's pricing.
New Zealand Labour MP, Clare Curran has today called on the NZ Government to reveal the text of their "secret discussion" with South Korea on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
IBM has today officially launched its new IT services centre in Ballarat, at Victoria's University of Ballarat Technology Park.
As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
Do you ever get the urge to be naughty, especially if you are never found out? Do you ever fancy committing a crime and not have to worry about having your name splashed all over the papers?
It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Some of the 500,000 visitors expected to walk through the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on the Sydney coastline this November can be excused for saying they are seeing things that aren't really there.
Looking to enhance your business with an ERP system? Here's our round-up of the top vendors.
A month after admitting to receiving the ISP filtering live trial report, the office of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has committed to releasing it in "due course".
Google announced the open-sourcing of its Chrome OS early this morning, and the search giant was very clear in explaining its target market for Chrome OS devices: this is a companion device, not a primary desktop machine. But is a Chrome OS netbook intrinsically better than a lowly iPod?
Is Australia and New Zealand Banking Group suffering from a lack of strategic IT leadership as its year-long search for a new chief information officer drags on?
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
The ATO changes its IT Change Program. Or is it adding to the agenda of its Change Agenda? Our comic duo investigates.
With earnings season looming, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz look ahead at July and discuss what's on deck for the big four: Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. We all know ad spending has tapered, but what does that mean for Google? And will Windows 7 carry Microsoft through the recession?
At JavaOne in San Francisco, Telenor's Fritjof Bogner Engelhardtsen and Sun's James Gosling look at a new experimental development platform for SIM cards. The Java platform allows programmers to design new mobile services including adding sensors and Wi-Fi radio directly on the card.
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, explains how Microsoft plans to apply Web 2.0 technology, such as self-service and groups of people contributing to applications, to the enterprise. In an interview with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Elops also details Microsoft's plans to release ad-supported programs.
Apple has recently released a beta of its upcoming iPhone 3.0 software. Although it comes with added functionality, the performance is laggy and some of the touted features are lacking.
Behind its expansive display, Apple has packed one of the fastest all-in-ones available, and added a few useful extras to sweeten the deal.
If you spend more time fighting fires than adding business value through IT, it's time to look at this comprehensive management solution for medium businesses.
Lenovo's popular IdeaPad S10-2 netbook has been slimmed down and its price reduced, making it a better netbook as long as you can live without ExpressCard.
If you find that the price is right and you are only planning on doing menial tasks, you could do a lot worse than the HP ProBook.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
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