The official word from Telstra and the Federal government is that the Next G Network provides equivalent or superior coverage to CDMA. Try telling that to the people of Mangoplah, NSW.
With legislation obliging telcos to share their network infrastructure details passed by the House of Representatives last night, it has been revealed that the government may compensate carriers for sharing their intellectual property.
The CIO of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), the federal government's sports administration and advisory agency, lifts the lid on the technology powering our elite athletes.
Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices.
Software which links ordinary mobile phones into a smart camera surveillance network has been developed by Swiss researchers.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has dismissed claims by Microsoft that it is exempt from provisions of GPLv3 and has vowed to make sure the Redmond giant "respects our copyrights and complies with our licences".
Microsoft should be able to extricate itself from the implications of the new GPLv3, according to a leading Australian Intellectual Property lawyer.
In the push to get the iPhone out on time, Apple has been forced to delay the release of the next version of Mac OS X until October.
Cisco has fired the first shot in the war over the iPhone name filing a lawsuit against Apple for infringing its trademark.
Intel announced plans Tuesday to lay off thousands of workers over the next year after a strategic review designed to prepare the company for life with a smaller share of the chip market.
The next version of Windows will grade performance. You'll have to decide whether to buy a new hard drive.
Intel demonstrated two quad-core processors Tuesday in the United States, "Clovertown" for servers and "Kentsfield" for PCs, directing attention toward the future during a more troubled present.
Hewlett-Packard executives are mulling plans to improve over the next 18 months the technology the company uses to manage its direct sales, while it continues with commercial printing efforts and acquisitions of software companies.
Competitors will try to use uncertainty to win customers from HP, analysts predict. It's not yet clear whether they will succeed.
Andy Hertzfeld, co-creator of the Macintosh, talks about his work on the Mac, his reasons for writing a book on it and the reaction from his former co-workers.
Big Blue's plan to sell its PC unit to China's Lenovo Group (formerly known as Legend) would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity.
A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according to a new report.
Although Intel garners most of its revenue and profits from such well-known processors as the Pentium 4 or the Xeon, it's unsung heroes like the US$40 915G Express chipset, released earlier this year, that have let Intel become the largest and fastest-growing graphics chip designers on the planet.
By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work.
The federal government has set a tentative date for the release of recommendations for handling intellectual property claims over business processes as the 'Web patent war' escalates in North America.
Apple Computer's apparent cold shoulder to RealNetworks this week has once again put the company's "go it alone" strategy in the spotlight.
You've got a lot invested in that current infrastructure, but there are those who are telling you it's time to upgrade. When is really the right time?
Adobe Systems announces new versions of its video products--but Mac users will be out of luck when it comes to video editing.
Apple Computer appears poised to boost its Power Mac line in what could be a much-needed overhaul of its high-end desktops.
Apple Computer has refreshed its line of eMac computers, upgrading their processing power and graphics performance, and offering a new low-end model.
In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.
Five years after debuting the original iMac, Apple Computer has stopped selling the gumdrop-shaped machine to the public.
Software maker Quark has announced details of the next version of its QuarkXPress publishing program, a key holdout in supporting Apple's Mac OS X operating system.
Apple launches Power Macs with twin 1.42GHz processors, as it seeks to close the gigahertz gap with Windows-based PCs.
The Mac maker hopes its new portable device will generate a buzz for its home entertainment products.
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