The government yesterday laid down AU$8 million for the next year to fill mobile phone black spots on sections of highway as well as selected towns in WA and NT.
Tcard, or some variant of it, is again on the cards as the NSW government looks to its options for getting Sydney's electronic ticketing back on track.
The federal government is to conduct a full review of the security of public and private sector information and communications networks.
The Federal government has released guidelines for the Australian Broadband Guarantee (ABG) it says will make the program more effective.
Companies belching greenhouse gases will have to keep track of their footprint as of today so they can report their levels to the government.
It's not at all quiet on the fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network front, as telcos lodge their submissions on regulatory issues for the AU$4.7 billion national broadband network (NBN) and the Liberal party throws a spanner in the works by starting an inquiry into the government's handling of the network tender.
The NSW government has commissioned an independent audit into sections of Sydney's road network, after technical problems left motorists stranded in Sydney's north and south this week.
Railway technology that is 118 years old and responsible for adding 45 minutes to a trip from Brisbane to Sydney has been updated, Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese says.
A computer failure closed down Sydney's M5 East tunnel at around 7:10am today, leaving traffic to bank up for kilometres in both directions.
Telstra is unlikely to win the right to build the proposed national high-speed broadband network if it insists on wholly owning it and demands an annual return of 18 per cent, an analyst says.
Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?
At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.
Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
The Driving Standards Agency has admitted losing over three million learner drivers' details.
We sat down with security analyst Andrew Walls at Gartner ITExpo and asked him how Web 2.0 affects application security. He talked to us about how traditional desktop security measures are falling short in a Web 2.0 world and how developers need to take more personal responsibility for the security of their code.
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
An analysis by representatives of Australia's two largest IT industry groups shows that neither political party in the federal election has come up with a comprehensive policy around technology.
With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?
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.
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It dances. It can hold a conversation. And in about a year, humanoid robot Qrio will be knocking on doors, if Sony's plans fall into place.
Smart cards are anticipated to be the next generation in public transport ticketing systems. What are the obstacles faced in implementing them?
The Australian Communications Authority has ruled out legalising mobile phone jammers, or making an exception for Australian prisons.
The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".
The federal government has formally asked the Australian Communications Authority to investigate the feasibility of allowing state governments to jam mobile phone signals in jails.
The Federal Government has announced it will make it illegal to change a mobile phone's unique IMEI number in a move to strengthen attempts to end rampant mobile theft.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) plans to review the pricing of mobile phone services, with a view to updating regulations governing the area.
Despite showing occasional signs of strain, the Internet has become an integral part of all kinds of business and consumer technologies. How will it change in the years ahead to meet with new demands? We identify some key areas to watch out for.
The first commercial rollout of third generation mobile technology may be 12 to 18 months away, but Ericsson has given Australia a taste of things to come for mobile phones: a live videoconference from a moving vehicle.
Sometimes, a well-placed and well-timed letter can make all the difference. Other times, it can make no difference at all — and even hurt your case. This week's missive by the Competitive Carriers' Coalition, I would suggest, falls into the latter category.
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.
Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.
I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.
The day of reckoning finally arrived for CDMA -- and was then postponed, leaving everyone with any strong feeling on the subject a nice window of three months to once again enjoy the semantic back-and-forth the closure provokes.
The council rubbish truck didn't pick up my bin last week. Instead, the garbage contractor left a big yellow sticker highlighting exactly why my old egg shells, rancid fruit, microwave pizza boxes, an ancient and smelly pair of sneakers, and the odd brick had been left to rot on my property.
It has been a busy year in telecoms, whether because of the increasingly bitter relationship between Telstra and the government; the awarding of the contentious but (finally) progressive broadband contract to OPEL; the pivotal election that led to a change of government; or the move of 3G mobile technology into the mainstream at last.
As expected, Senator Stephen Conroy -- who made a career out of picking holes in the actions of his predecessor Helen Coonan -- was named to Kevin Rudd’s front bench, bearing the interesting new title of Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (BCDE).
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