News (251)

  • Australia Post bans lithium batteries

    Australia Post will no longer be accepting packages that contain lithium batteries by air.

  • PKBA connects NT councils

    IT Services firm PKBA has won a contract with local councils in the Northern Territory to provide them with voice and video-conferencing systems.

  • Telstra misused confidential Optus info

    The Federal Court ruled yesterday that Telstra misused Optus' confidential information for its own marketing purposes in the 1990's.

  • Tribunal examines Telstra exemption

    The Australian Competition Tribunal has this week been examining the ACCC's decision to grant Telstra an exemption from supplying voice services in certain areas.

  • Massive quantum network unveiled

    The world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, providing a glimpse of how data could be transmitted securely in the future.

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  • Is there life in Google's Android?

    Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.

  • Mobile: Skype hungry for next frontier

    Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.

  • Celebrating three decades of Apple

    In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.

  • Integrate VoIP with your existing network

    As organisations increasingly recognise and require the benefits voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offers, they stop asking "Why?" and start asking "How?".

  • Perform effective VoIP network capacity planning

    When discussing voice over Internet Protocol, network capacity becomes more a measure of how many simultaneous calls the network can process. This article looks at what you should consider during the VoIP capacity planning process.

Reviews (35)

  • Belkin N+ Wireless Storage Router

    Belkin's N+ Wireless Storage Router leaps ahead of the wireless-N pack, and finally delivers a wireless-N router worth owning.

  • Apple AirPort Express Base Station (802.11n)

    Apple's AirPort Express Base Station has always been remarkable in that it is networking hardware that people actually seem to get excited about. Thanks to an update to the 802.11n wireless networking standard, this compact, easy-to-use device can now add increased wireless networking performance to its list of pros.

  • Sony VPL-CX155

    The well-built and stylish Sony VPL-CX155 is easy to use and features impressive networking capabilities. However, for a business projector with such a high price tag, poor image quality and a lack of Wi-Fi may leave users wanting more.

  • Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.4GHz)

    With its super-elegant new design and a strong configuration, Apple's new iMac competes with the PC desktop market better than perhaps any previous Mac to date.

  • Wireless -- willing but not able

    Australia still has way to go before it can meet its full potential with wireless and broadband.

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