The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued its telecommunications consumer protection guidelines in response to calls for a simpler set of rules for telcos and users alike.
The Western Australian state government today invited private sector groups to register their interest in building its planned AU$1 billion statewide broadband network (SBN).
Wireless service provider Unwired has nabbed the 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 award, which recognises the nation's fastest growing technology companies.
Just months after RailCorp NSW outsourced key IT services to Fujitsu, the state-owned rail corporation has revealed it is now working on an enterprise-wide strategy for the telecommunications side of its technology operations.
St George Bank has substantially completed a refresh of the telephony systems used in its smaller retail branches, with Panasonic getting the nod over the bank's corporate supplier Avaya.
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
Add two more Oz telecomms bloggers to the list: AAPT's regulatory affairs chieftan David Havyatt, and Optus/Cisco/everywhere veteran Laurel Papworth.
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.
How can you tell if your business is ready for Voice over IP? Also, who are the leading IP handset providers and systems integrators in Australia?
Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.
Apple has made a push towards enterprise with the release of its SDK roadmap yesterday -- but will enterprise take the bait?
Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.
JP Rangaswami, managing director at BT Design, talks about transformation and convergence at one of the worlds' largest telecommunication companies, and, his belief in Web 2.0 and the power of social networking. Rangaswami speaks with ZDNet's Dan Farber, sharing his visionary thoughts about the tech industry. And why he calls himself the managing director instead of chief information officer.
An impressive set-up well worth the consideration for any small office looking to bring their telephony systems into the 21st century.
High-powered panelists discuss the evolution of content delivery in the age of convergence and the empowered consumer at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual conference in San Francisco. Panelists include Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, America Online CEO Jonathan Miller, Google co-founder Larry Page and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
Sexy sliders, 2-megapixel camera phones, a sleek clamshell and a snazzy new interface are some of the highlights from Nokia Connection 2005.
The proposed SIP standard is key to IM interoperability and to merging voice, data, video and messaging into a single system, says a Microsoft executive.
The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?
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The cash-strapped UK National Museum of Computing is home to an exhibition of the evolution of British PCs.… Watch it now
In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.
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