Communications Minister Stephen Conroy seemed to throw water on industry fears today that divvying up the Tasmanian National Broadband Network might not involve a normal tendering process, saying contracts would definitely be put out to market.
The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority has committed at least $2 million on a major SAP upgrade, with acting chief information officer John Thomas expecting the first phase to be completed by the end of 2008.
This week, the world marks an anniversary that has changed the face and other anatomical regions of e-mail inboxes everywhere: the first known spam e-mail was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the Zune music player.
The official word from Telstra and the Federal government is that the Next G Network provides equivalent or superior coverage to CDMA. Try telling that to the people of Mangoplah, NSW.
Labor's fibre-to-the-premises NBN was meant to be an act of freedom, a breaking-free from 100 years of copper infrastructure legacy and the start of something new. So why in the world are we still discussing Telstra's copper network?
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
With the OPEL bid cancelled and procedural questions dogging the FTTN bid, Australia is currently in something of a technological limbo.
You wait for some hot news on smartphone software -- well, I do -- and then several bits come along at once. This week has seen some seriously fascinating movements in the field -- but what does it all mean for your mobile?
There are fewer and fewer places in the modern world where Internet access and mobile signals can't be found. The inside of an in-flight aircraft has remained one of the connectivity-free bastions -- but that's all about to change.
Do you think your Wi-Fi network is secure? Think again. We look at what you can do to make sure it is.
Tech giants' newfound respect for consumer power is their roundabout way of winning enterprise customers, says CNET News.com's Mike Ricciuti.
Fears of the Millennium Bug drove a generation of companies to upgrade their PCs, but four years on, those systems need to be replaced and such a mammoth task has serious environmental implications.
People who are attracted to the creative effort of new technology don't like procedural work. But you can't outlaw creativity entirely. Here's some member feedback on the subject.
LG's external Blu-ray writer is huge, but does the job. We're still not in the age of Blu-ray though, and we wonder if we ever will be.
Sony's slimline DRX-S70U drive is quite appealing for travellers or those with dud notebook drives -- as long as you've got space for the AC adaptor.
The last time we heard of SLI, we loved it. Has Nvidia done anything better with it this time round?
There's a confusing array of portable, removable, and mobile memory products out there -- how do you pick one that suits your business requirements?
One of the leading causes of system slowdowns and crashes: a dirty Registry. Here's some utilities that scan this system database, find errant entries, and let you get rid of them.
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