Google sees all enterprise trends pointing toward cloud computing, and it wants a piece of the action.
The national broadband network will not be fast enough for Tasmanian businesses, according to consumer action group Digital Tasmania, and could even mean further delays for the Basslink cable.
Yahoo is letting outside Web sites use information from its own catalogue of geographic information, thus allowing programmers to employ Yahoo data and services in their own applications.
Google has joined SingTel and four other carriers to build a new high bandwidth submarine cable system between the US and Japan, in a move to address its broadband capacity needs.
MasterCard Worldwide is joining with the Commonwealth Bank -- and playing on Australians' love of their mobile phones -- to launch its PayPass cashless payment system down under.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
South Australia's Yorke Peninsula with just 11,780 people spread across 5,834 square kilometres, is known more for its rugged natural beauty than its technological prowess. But now that Internode has brought broadband to the entire peninsula, the area has become a very important part of Australia's telegeography.
If there was ever evidence that the stoush over broadband had gotten personal, it came when Telstra's sour-grapes mentality led it to sue Helen Coonan, personally, for claimed procedural flaws in the OPEL contract.
Just a few days after the Australia Connected program was launched Communications Minister Helen Coonan was selling the initiative to the TV talk shows.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
The CIO of San Francisco International Airport talks to ZDNet about protecting the airport's network and providing new services such as passenger WiFi.
The question on the lips of most CIOs is no longer whether to send work offshore. It's a question of how much to send.
The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.
As one of the few genuine global super-brands with over 200 businesses, Virgin faces huge challenges. To find out what role IT plays in all this, Andy McCue caught up with Virgin's group CIO Gareth Lewis.
Is certification better than experience? Here's what industry analysts and IT professionals have to say, including issues with MCSE.
Fancy a 1.3Mbps broadband pipeline direct to your notebook, without a cable in sight? The new BigPond wireless data card makes good on Telstra's lofty promises for its Next G network.
It's not exactly cheap, but if you want wireless broadband on the go -- and critically, if you live in the right bits of the correct cities -- then it's your best current choice.
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The software giant's latest version of its flagship encyclopaedia seamlessly combines a wealth of knowledge with impressive multimedia, including Discovery Channel documentaries.
Smart cards are anticipated to be the next generation in public transport ticketing systems. What are the obstacles faced in implementing them?
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