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• College backs off Wi-Fi ban

  High-tech tensions at the University of Texas at Dallas are easing, as administrators are curtailing the regulation of private hot spots in campus housing, but problems with interference may continue.

• WiMax: The saviour of rural broadband?

  What technology can blast data up to seven times faster and a thousand times further than Wi-Fi?

• 3com, Netgear Australia square off

  Two of Australia's top managing directors of networking firms go head to head on critical issues.

• Tech threats to Telstra can't be "strangled at birth": ACCC

  Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".

• Report: WiMax won't take off soon

  Much-hyped broadband wireless technology won't get its big break for another five years, analysts say.

• What's in store for 2003

  Broadband, wireless, the increasing prevalence of voice technologies, Web services .Net and Java based platforms - 2003 is already shaping up to be an interesting year.

• Photos: Aussie research speeds traffic, finds crims

  At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.

• Unwired adds new Sydney suburbs

  Wireless broadband provider, Unwired, has turned on its wireless broadband services across more than 40 Sydney suburbs today, bringing the company closer to the completion of its Sydney wide network.

• WiFi partnership anticipates 4G mobile phones

  Wireless broadband provider SkyNetGlobal has forged a strategic alliance with Australian clearinghouse for wireless Internet networks, Hotspot Global, to create a common platform for WiFi roaming in anticipation of WiFi-enabled mobile phones.

• Switch may send wireless four miles

  Vivato is developing a new switch that can extend a Wi-Fi network's range, and allow for far more simultaneous users than most wireless networks can handle.

• Intel plots path of WiMax

  Intel predicted three years of solid development in wireless broadband on Tuesday, as it showed the first samples of its Rosedale 802.16 WiMax chip.

• Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

  Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

• Sol Trujillo: The interview

  In his role as Telstra's chief executive, Sol Trujillo is the most talked about and controversial telecommunications executive in Australia. ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News.com sat down with Trujillo during a recent trip to the US to quiz him about wireless and handsets.

• Optus to offer iBurst, courts Unwired

  Optus will resell Personal Broadband Australia's iBurst wireless broadband solution, and is in talks with Unwired about a similar deal.

• Photos: Inside NEC's NECXT life showcase

  At the "NECXT life" product showcase in Sydney, NEC gave us the chance to explore a "day in the a life of NEC". Our photo gallery reveals that such a day involves digital signs, VoIP, LCDs, waterproof notebooks and CCTV.

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