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• Uecomm sells fibre network to WA electricity co.

  Telecommunications carrier Uecomm has agreed to sell its western australian fibre network to electricity utility Western Power for AU$5.14 million.

• WA broadband-via-fibre project leaps ahead

  A West Australian power company today said its infrastructure had provided a viable option for piping commercial fibre-optic broadband to customer premises.

• Western Australian Internet body slams censorship policy

  The Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) has slammed an Internet censorship policy created by the Family First Party in the wake of Australia's biggest ever child porn bust.

• iiNet customers face outage

  Customers of Australian ISP, iiNet, faced a five hour service outage last night reportedly caused by an electrical storm.

• Optus cuts off WA-S'pore Net peering deal

  Singapore Telecommunications and its Australian subsidiary, Optus, have terminated an Internet peering arrangement with the Western Australian Internet Association's WAIX exchange, citing "a global network consolidation plan".

Blogs (2)

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  Mene, mene, tekel, iPhone: What the finger hath wrought

  Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.

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  Huawei and cultural values

  Last week I gained first hand insight into how one of the up and comers in networking is putting price pressure on heavyweights like Cisco, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.

Features and Case Studies (48)

• Store more: 4 NAS devices tested

  The last year has seen prices tumble for network attached storage. We look at four of the best options to get some more storage on your network.

• Case study: Western Power quality tool

  Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.

• iiNet's copyright crucible heats up

  The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) hunt for Australia's third largest internet service provider iiNet is set to resume on Monday, with all eyes on its managing director Michael Malone as he takes the stand.

• Are clueless politicians holding IT back?

  The level of ignorance from Australian politicians about technology can be staggering. Here's some of the worst examples we've seen, and a short recipe for resolving the issue.

• Raising the mid-market ICT bar

  There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.

Reviews (39)

• QNAP TS-409 Pro NAS

  The old adage "good things come in small packages" certainly applies to the QNAP TS-409, a silver and black cube whose small dimensions sport a raft of features.

• Maxtor Shared Storage Plus

  Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it.

• Store more: 4 NAS devices tested

  The last year has seen prices tumble for network attached storage. We look at four of the best options to get some more storage on your network.

• Voice over IP: Security, stability, success

  If you're thinking about voice over IP, we take a look at the steps involved in getting it set up and what's on offer from four major vendors.

• Western Digital My Book World Edition (2TB)

  The Western Digital My Book World Edition is a fast, simple to use, plug and play NAS that unfortunately lacks many features and has sub-par remote access performance.

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