Within a month of the birth of Channel Seven's WiMax internet service provider, vividwireless, Telstra had welcomed it with "cease and desist" letters over its use of the term "4G".
It was supposed to be a cake walk for Paul Fletcher, but the former Optus executive's ascension as MP for Bradfield has become less certain in recent days.
The government's plan to split Telstra is not communist, says Optus chief Paul O'Sullivan, because Telstra is not a normal company.
Justice Dennis Cowdroy today rejected the Internet Industry Association's (IIA) request to be considered a "friend of the court" in the iiNet copyright case.
When Monash University's long-term chief information officer Alan McMeekin leaves the university next month, he will be handing over a half completed, prolonged migration from Thunderbird to Lotus Notes.
If I was Alan Chapman, the acting executive director of the Queensland Government Chief Information Office, I'd be really irate right now.
When your broadband speeds are limited to 38Kbps it's not hard to join the ranks of people demanding the NBN already. Telstra's copper network is a renovator's delight.
Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.
For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
TechnologyOne executive chairman Adrian Di Marco is the first to admit that he could have taken a heavier hand with cost cutting, and indeed has come under fire from financial analysts for not doing so, but he believes in paying his staff for their work and hiring when the right people come to his door.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will likely release a censored version of Enex Testlabs' report into the technical feasibility of ISP-level internet filtering, in an attempt to minimise the fallout on his political career.
Fedora is Red Hat's younger, more community-driven desktop-centric distribution. ZDNet.com.au grabbed the ISOs hot out of the oven to see what Fedora 12 was all about.
Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?
How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?
It's a hands-on preview of Snow Leopard with a few goodies Apple hasn't shown off; iPhone 3GS' are now available in colors, thanks to overheating; and the iPhone 3.1 software beta is revealed!
CNET's Rafe Needleman gets a look at the eagerly anticipated new computational search engine, Wolfram Alpha. Is it a Google killer? No, but it has the potential to change the way we view data on the web.
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the company's Justin Rattner and Joshua Smith talk about advancements in robotics. The research involves dexterous robots with new sensory abilities. In the demo, Rattner grabs an apple from the grasp of a robot hand that can sense objects purely by changes...
On this week's Club Builder we look at some local scientists who have made a break through in fibre throughput, a group of local lads win big in Paris and we hand out our first Honesty Award.
Even if you follow the security advice of your bank, banking trojans can undermine efforts to prevent information falling into the wrong hands when customers do their banking online, says F-Secure's senior security specialist, Patrik Runald.
While it's hard to recommend it as an upgrade to current Bold owners, the 9700 is an outstanding phone in its own right and is still among the best handsets for business users.
Following the trend of all-in-one desktops, the Dell Inspiron One 19 is aimed at the budget market and clearly shows in both design and performance.
Dell's Adamo brand of notebooks emphasise design as well as mobility, and its latest offering seems to have an abundance of both. But will breaking tradition help the Adamo XPS trump the MacBook Air?
If you spend more time fighting fires than adding business value through IT, it's time to look at this comprehensive management solution for medium businesses.
The Apple MacBook may look the same as before, but it's had a Spring makeover and is now a better deal than ever.
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