Telstra has confessed to rigging a ZDNet Australia survey which questions whether its Internet service provides value for money, just days after its ramped up Net access toll fell under the investigation of the competition watchdog for possible breaches of the Trade Practices Act.
A chain e-mail initiated yesterday sparked an overwhelming response to an ABC online poll about Australian involvement in a possible war against Iraq.
Caught in the act rigging ZDNet online user surveys last week, Telstra is deliberating over offering a formal apology saying it can’t control the actions of its employees.
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The recent hype surrounding viruses such as the menacing SirCam and Code Red worms has still not deterred users from clicking on those curious emails appearing in their inboxes, according to a ZDNet reader poll.
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.
Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.
Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.
With the iPhone freshly launched in Europe, only now are we starting to get an idea of the true extent of Apple's power over the mobile operators.
Web services are being touted as offering a wide range of benefits to organisations. But are Australian CIOs and IT managers in the implementation stage, or still assessing the options?
Many business Web sites try to impress visitors with the latest in multimedia effects and high powered graphics. As ZDNet Australia found, however, they might be ignoring the most powerful lure - good old-fashioned words.
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Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? ZDNet Australia explores the state of Web services today.
Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox.
Fire Drop's Zaplet Web service can help you reduce in-box clutter and eliminate long e-mail threads by letting you collaborate with others via e-mail using a single Zaplet message.
Honey, I shrunk the iPod! The new nano has all the features of its big brother, the Classic, but in a smaller package with fewer gigabytes.
The name suggests more of the same but with more space and better value. Hard disk lag issues, video out controversy and just okay sound stop it from being a true classic though.
Reading over the results from the Australian Broadband Survey for 2004 confirms what many ZDNet Australia readers have written about over the past year: Telstra drastically needs to improve its BigPond service.
Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.
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