Huge share price falls amidst some of Australia's largest IT companies over the past few weeks have fuelled speculation about whether the industry could be about to face some degree of merger and acquisition activity.
Telstra could be facing industrial action after one of the unions that represents the telco's workers late last night said attempts to negotiate a new collective agreement had failed.
Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo today said the telco was waiting on more information from the federal government before deciding on whether or not to bid to build the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Unisys has named former Gateway CEO J. Edward Coleman as its new global chief executive.
Air safety investigators today said there was an "irregularity" in the onboard computer equipment of a Qantas plane involved in a mid-air incident over Western Australia.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed "improvements" in ISP filtering technologies, but will a broad-scale roll-out make ISPs a thief's favourite target?
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US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
At midnight 11 July Optus became Australia's first mobile carrier to sell the iPhone 3G. We were on hand to witness the festivities and to finally play with Apple's much hyped handset.
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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.
At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.
The ACCC is standing before a chasm, with the lack of certainty around regulation of the national broadband network putting a question mark beside the commissions' future role.
This week on Club Builder: Steve Ballmer gives a teary goodbye to Bill Gates, Mark Taylor moves into IT endorsements and we ask some Google Gears questions.
June 30 marks Gates' last official day of work at Microsoft. While the software giant's founder will continue on as chairman, he will no longer be a full-time employee. ZDNet's editor in chief, Larry Dignan, rates Gates' many conference keynotes and product launches, separating the successful from those that missed...
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Mark Strassman, vice president of plant design solutions at Autodesk, discusses how the company's design software, Rivet and Inventor, is making it easier and more cost effective for architects to create sustainable buildings.
The HP iPAQ 912c defines the middle of the road. When you consider its performance versus the price, the 912c is passable but painfully average.
Fujitsu's foray into Centrino 2 laptops is solid, but the competition is offering more features at a lower price.
If you've been holding back, now is the time: the second-gen Touch is an excellent media player, and the addition of third-party apps extends the fun for everyone, no matter where your interests lie.
They're big and quite ugly, but there's no doubting that Netgear's WNHDEB111 delivers in the 802.11n speed stakes finally!
The VGNBZ15GN is Sony's latest business laptop in the VAIO range, and includes the new Centrino 2 platform. A heavy machine with strong performance, but let down by poor battery life.
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