Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's role in helping a Labor powerbroker land a plum job with the national broadband network.
Politicians have complained about an overly zealous web filter installed in Canberra's Parliament House, with one Liberal senator saying its glitches didn't bode well for the planned mandatory internet service provider level filtering.
Canberra-based telco TransACT opened a third datacentre in the nation's capital last week.
The nation's number two telco Optus today said it was on schedule to upgrade the speed of its hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to 100Mbps by mid-2010.
National Broadband Network (NBN) chief Mike Quigley has revealed that the NBN Co has been hiring more operations staff in Melbourne than Sydney, adding fuel to an ongoing rivalry.
If Telecom NZ wants to have any of the NZ$1.5 billion the government intends to spend on its new broadband network, it had better think long and hard before offshoring 1500 jobs.
Do our businesses really need to be in the CBD, taking up so much valuable office space, when so much of the workforce could be offloaded to the cheaper countryside and suburbia and simply telecommute?
2009 was a busy year in telecommunications and this year is shaping up for even more change. Or will some of the big promises start to fizzle out?
Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian internet.
Faced with a renewed threat in newly-appointed Tony Abbott and unknown-quantity communications portfolio ankle-biter Tony Smith, Stephen Conroy responded this week in the way any politician would: he gave lots, and lots, and lots of speeches.
The past year has seen education move widely to hosted email systems from either Microsoft or Google, while in-house systems or even old favourites such as Lotus Notes are left by the wayside. Is hosted email to be the corporate communications future, or will it stay in its niche market of students and individuals?
It's 11am in the morning and the chief executive of Australia's third-largest internet service provider iiNet is striding around his company's Sydney offices, his eyes alight with passion and a big smile on his face.
Greens Party Senator Scott Ludlam today put his support behind an online protest that takes aim at the Federal Government's mandatory ISP-level filtering regime.
The nation has heard about former EDS employee Reecson Wentworth Denford's audacious theft of $2.9 million dollars from Bank of Queensland, but what were the motives behind the sweeping fraud and what has it done to the man who committed it? Read our blow by blow account of the events.
Within weeks the up to $53 million Federal Government-commissioned NBN implementation study is due to be delivered by lead advisers KPMG and McKinsey, but big questions remain: what is it, who's behind it and what impact will it have on the NBN Co's actual plans to build the network?
ACT senator and former shadow Minister for ICT Kate Lundy told ZDNet.com.au last month in a video interview that a project as large as the National Broadband Network was bound to see schedule slippage.
Australians tell us what they think of the $43 billion National Broadband Network.
Shadow Communications Minister talks about key issues in his portfolio: the National Broadband Network, the ISP filter and more.
Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) national president Ed Husic talks about how Telstra's strikes are going and what Telstra's fall from the national broadband network process means to its workers.
Australian ISPs BigPond, iiNet and Internode discuss whether the National Broadband Numbers stack up.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
Panasonic has created a new paradigm in rugged notebooks with the CF-U1, which is a nice balance between portability and functionality. However businesses should be aware of its limited performance, and note that protection comes at a premium price.
If data security is paramount, the DataTraveler BlackBox is the USB flash drive of choice, despite its relatively high cost.
Telstra has quietly started offering two new ways of accessing its new nation-wide third-generation Next G mobile network, with two new USB modems now on sale.
PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 has a few shortcomings, but overall it's an affordable and feature-packed security suite that reliably defends against online threats.
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