The Australian Communication Authority has released draft ISP guidelines for disclosing service information to potential customers, but is yet to finalise information that will be used to judge provider performance.
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has sent a warning to the telecommunications industry that its "voluntary" code of practice has as much bite as it does bark.
Australian managed security providers (MSPs) are looking forward to healthy growth in 2002 as the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 begins to force the hand of business of all sizes.
An Internet Service Provider start-up is ruffling feathers by establishing a co-operative group body to stand up against Telstra following claims it was put out of business after being stung by the giant telco.
Australian Internet Service Providers are split over the decision to disconnect virus-spreading users that have taken insufficient precautions against malicious attacks.
Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots -- except maybe the media.
Hillary Clinton's nine lives are not yet depleted and, despite allegations that her stubborn refusal to concede defeat earlier has fragmented her party, she fought her battle to the very end. By placing bets several ways, that battle may just turn into gold for her down the track. Has Optus taken a leaf out of Hillary's book?
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, so the old adage goes -- but is there such a thing as free Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi sharing company Fon thinks it has the answer, as does Google-backed start-up Meraki.
Some suggestions of New Year's Resolutions for the Australian telecommunications industry.
Australian managed security providers (MSPs) are looking forward to healthy growth in 2002 as the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 begins to force the hand of business of all sizes.
Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?
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".
If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.
When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?
The BlackBerry 8707g is reasonably zippy and easy-to-use, but lacks many common smartphone features like Wi-Fi and microSD memory expansion.
Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?
While most hopes for permanent wireless data connection lay with the new GPRS mobile phone network, one company is already offering a similar service to Australian owners of Palm V series PDAs and IBM WorkPads. Global Wireless Application Service Provider, dotWAP provides an 'always-online' wireless connection through a Neo1 sled modem operating over United Wireless' Mobitex packet-switched network.
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