The Nortel Networks Technology Centre in Wollongong is celebrating its 15-year anniversary this month with the opening of its new wireless laboratory.
Sharman Networks parties' legal representative today revealed an e-mail stating that one of the witnesses for the Universal Music Australia parties had previously declined to be an expert witness for the Sharman parties in the ongoing civil trial against the peer to peer software provider for alleged copyright infringement. Additional reading: Sharman case story archive
Legal representatives from both the Sharman Networks parties and music industry stretched the 13th day of the ongoing trial against the peer to peer software provider for alleged copyright infringing behaviour with arguments over which pieces of evidence will be admissible in court.
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Femtocells could help speed the arrival of next-generation mobile-broadband networks, such as WiMax and LTE (long-term evolution), the future roadmap of 3G.
Are ICT, IT&T and plain old IT interchangeable? Or is it time for a new name?
During a recent trip overseas, I marvelled at how technology has radically altered the way we travel
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.
StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
In recent months, wireless networks have received a boost as products based on the 802.11g standard--capable of 54Mbps--have come into the mainstream. Are you ready for fast wireless?
802.11i is currently nearing completion and it adds two main blocks of improvements, improved security for data in transit, and better control of who can use a network.
Few managers consider it a sexy area, but well-planned storage systems are critical to the functioning of businesses of all sizes. How has storage technology evolved and how can you plan the right system at the right price?
During the holiday season, snow isn't the only thing analysts shovel. With that in mind, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon Oltsik, takes a look forward on networking technology and related industry trends in 2008.
Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at Messagelabs, said the company's latest research indicates that Australian spam levels are well below the global average. The bad news is that social networking sites, such as MySpace, are helping phishers create more targeted attacks.
Davis Thomason, senior director of technical services at Sourcefire, describes Enterprise Threat Management (ETM), which combines IPS, vulnerability assessments, network behaviour analysis and network admission control, to create a pro-active defence system.
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Peter Williams, CTO of IBM's Big Green Innovations, discusses the role of technology in the green movement. He addresses everything from new virtualisation systems to new sensor networks that will help monitor climate change.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has tested technology using the 802.11s 'mesh networking' pre-draft in Australia's outback and achieved distances of 2km.
Vaho Rebasoo, CTO for Computers and Network Operations at Boeing, talks about the new technologies that will improve aircraft and aerospace production, as well as innovative strategies such as RFID.
High-powered panelists discuss the evolution of content delivery in the age of convergence and the empowered consumer at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual conference in San Francisco. Panelists include Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, America Online CEO Jonathan Miller, Google co-founder Larry Page and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
In recent months, wireless networks have received a boost as products based on the 802.11g standard--capable of 54Mbps--have come into the mainstream. Are you ready for fast wireless?
802.11i is currently nearing completion and it adds two main blocks of improvements, improved security for data in transit, and better control of who can use a network.
Some of the first integrated circuits that create a wireless network using the very powerful, and controversial, ultrawideband wireless technique are on their way for testing by device makers.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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