A team of Australian scientists have demonstrated a photonic chip that boosts the data rate of fibre-optic connections by more than 64 times to 640Gbps, promising faster, cheaper internet for all.
A trial which saw one thousand students at an Australian university successfully receive their exam results via mobile phone SMS messaging, may have kick started the latest craze to sweep universities.
Australian internet telephony vendor Freshtel has signed agreements to install internet phones in several local universities' student accommodation buildings.
South Australia's largest university will support the Apple iPhone 3G as one of its official corporate mobile handsets, the institution revealed yesterday.
The University of Queensland is playing broadband Santa Claus to nearby schools, with its new service UQSchoolsNet.
Oxford University Press' rollout of SAP across the globe has been highly beneficial to the company.
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A YouTube video has changed my view of the world. And no, this time it didn't involve a monkey or a grievous injury captured on camera.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
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Hosted customer relationship management (CRM) is showing signs of gaining critical mass with two emerging players gaining traction with both enterprise and small- to medium-sized organisations in Australia.
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Experimental network excels at long-distance collaboration; researchers hope to up ante with hybrid optical packet infrastructure.
A group of researchers have found a way to transfer the equivalent of three DVDs per second.
A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
McAfee Internet Security 2008 trounces Norton Internet Security 2008, offering a better designed product with more security tools.
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Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.
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