The Tasmanian arm of the National Broadband Network Company, NBN Tasmania, has selected the company that will provide the fibre-optic cable for the new backhaul network in the island state.
Come September, some customers of Australian Capital Territory internet service provider TransACT will be able to select a 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload broadband service.
A project testing fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband technology in Tasmania is finally close to connecting trial customers, after suffering delays in the last 21 months since it was first announced.
The launch of a commercial trial of a new optical fibre to the home (FTTH) service in Tasmania is likely to take place in the closing months of this year, some 12 months after an initial date specified by the state's government.
Microsoft, in response to environmental concerns, will phase out all use of polyvinyl chloride plastic by the end of the year, the software giant announced on Wednesday.
Those of us who've spent a bit of time attending conferences around Australia will know that every event has its bloopers. This week's Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG) conference held in Sydney was certainly no exception.
Green laser diodes might just be the ticket to making video more watchable on handheld devices -- once the technology is more fully developed.
Laser diode technology is being developed that could someday allow you to project video downloaded to your cell phone onto a wall or screen.
In this CIO Vision Series interview, American Red Cross CIO Steve Cooper talks about lessons learnt from Hurricane Katrina and why creating an identity management system has become one of his biggest challenges.
In this guide on supply chain, we look at how some of the world's leading organisations such as Woolworths, Colgate and New Zealand Post are dealing with challenges in their supply chain networks.
Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?
Commentary: Why does a well-designed user interface seem to drop off the list of priorities when new systems are created?
Research at the center is geared toward creating battlefield armor for the 21st century, such as bacteria-killing materials and expanding fabrics that could be used as tourniquets.
Is it possible that analog chips will displace the zeros and ones at the heart of the binary language used in computing for some 20 years?
The Australasian Consumer Electronics Show has returned to the Sydney's Exhibition and Convention Centre at Darling Harbour for another week of technophile, sensory overload. Rather than screaming "I'm technology, I'm here!" this year the tone of the show seems a little more subdued. If you need a unit of measurement to gauge the size of the 2001 gathering you might be advised to choose Giga-Hertz. Wireless is a fashionable theme at recent technology shows, but this year the Australasian show's EM radiation level is being boosted by a multipartite effort to promote digital TV to consumers.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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The long-awaited separation of Telstra
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