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.
Five Internet Service Providers have been recruited by the government to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch DDoS attacks from Australia.
Telstra Bigpond cable service has been hampered nationally for around two days by equipment failure.
The recent upgrade of Telstra's newsgroup server caused some hiccups with the company's helpdesk receiving around 95 calls from users unable to access the system after it was replaced by a higher capacity machine.
Telstra believes it has finally found a fix for a “peculiarity” in peer-to-peer ADSL connections that it was first informed of as far back as six months ago.
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Australia's first pure wireless Internet service provider launched its commercial broadband Internet service in Sydney today, claiming full independence from Telstra-owned telephony infrastructure.
Keeping the current version of Internet Protocol, the world will run out of IP addresses by 2007. So is it time to move to IPv6? ZDNet Australia investigates.
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Optus' combo PC Card ticks every box on the wireless menu, including 3G, GPRS and Wi-Fi, to serve road warriors with a smorgasbord of connectivity.
If you want to share a broadband connection such as cable or ADSL over a network, you can either set up a PC or server as a router to share the Internet connection, or you can choose from a variety of hardware routers.
Looking for an easy way to extend that broadband connection to more of your organisation's PCs? One of these broadband routers could be the solution.
For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategi… Watch it now
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