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  • Telstra won't rise to broadband rumours

    Telstra has refused to respond to rumours within the broadband community that its three-gigabyte data download restriction may be lifted, claiming it hasn’t decided what its future plan will be.

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    Google's forthcoming e-mail service probably won't run into legal issues in Britain, as long as the company doesn't deceive customers about how their personal information will be treated.

  • 3 Australia doubles down on data

    Without the iPhone's gravitational pull, 3 Mobile is gambling on huge data increases to drive customers to its network.

  • Broadband providers drop plans

    Broadband service providers have responded quickly to Telstra BigPond's recent changes to its broadband plans, signaling a possible price war to attract and retain broadband customers.

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    A bulk e-mailer in Florida has been charged with electronically breaking into a massive data warehouse and stealing gigabytes of personal information on Americans, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

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    iPhone: how much storage is enough?

    People were apparently switching their brains off before joining the 3G iPhone queues, so it's somewhat surprising that considering an appropriate amount of storage was quite a high priority for many buyers.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    iPhone madness: What's a gigabyte worth?

    A while back, frustration with my inability to get online outside of the office drove me to invest in a 3G data service from Hutchinson's 3. For $30 per month, I get 2GB of data that's accessible pretty much anywhere I go (I do all my work in metropolitan areas).

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Apple has killed the video store; will ISPs be next?

    The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    iPhone madness changes the game

    Although 3G phones have been around for years, it appears the iPhone 3G has successfully rewritten the rules of competition in Australia's mobile sector whetting the nation's appetite for data.

  • Boundless Web mail bad news for IT managers

    Yahoo's decision to offer unlimited storage capacity for Web mail users might be great news for home users keen to swap stupidly high-resolution photos, but for enterprise IT managers it's just another pain in the backside.

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  • Seagate drive joins 400GB club

    Seagate's latest PC hard drives can absorb up to 400 gigabytes of data. The recenty unveiled Barracuda 7200.8 family includes 200GB, 250GB, 300GB and 400GB models for desktop PCs -- up from a maximum of 200GB.

  • Philips picks blue lasers for itty-bitty disc

    Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD.

  • Archiving: what's in store?

    Tape, disk, or optical? We set a budget of AU$20,000 and asked three vendors to come up with a storage solution.

  • Unravelling tape storage dilemmas

    With so many different tape formats and schemes for backup, it can be a nightmare to come up with the tape storage solution that's best for your situation. ZDNet Australia helps you decide.

  • Hitachi unleashes 100GB notebook drives

    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced the availability of new 100GB hard drives for notebooks.

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  • Philips picks blue lasers for itty-bitty disc

    Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD.

  • Archiving: what's in store?

    Tape, disk, or optical? We set a budget of AU$20,000 and asked three vendors to come up with a storage solution.

  • Optus Wireless Connect

    Optus' combo PC Card ticks every box on the wireless menu, including 3G, GPRS and Wi-Fi, to serve road warriors with a smorgasbord of connectivity.

  • Old hard drives yield data bonanza

    Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.

  • More wires, more fire: FireWire 800

    FireWire 800 ups the speed ante, promising twice the data transfer rate of FireWire 400. But what does this mean for you?

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