NSW prison inmates will soon be able to use Webcams to talk to their lawyers over the Internet, the NSW government says.
The number of mobile phone users worldwide soared to over 3.3 billion by the end of 2007, equivalent to a penetration rate of 49 per cent, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said in a report today.
Melbourne's Service Stream group will build the national Do Not Call Register aimed at thwarting rogue telemarketers after it won a AU$12.1 million tender over four years.
A telephone company cut off an FBI international wiretap after the agency failed to pay its bill on time, according to a US government audit released today.
MySpace and Skype are set to announce that the eBay-owned VoIP client will be providing voice chat services for the social network's instant messaging client, MySpaceIM. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
Back in mid-February of this year, I almost attended a conference held in Sydney by technology vendor CA.
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.
The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
LG's not yet a big-name player in the local mobile phone market, but that may be set to change. Check out the LG 7020.
The Nokia 2100 is the latest incarnation of Nokia's low-end phone, and it raises the bar on what is expected from a simple voice/text mobile.
The G5300 from LG Electronics is a mid-range phone chock-full of goodies.
The Australian Communications Authority has claimed a win for rural telecommunications following the prohibition of mobile phone boosters in May last year.
ZDNet Australia puts 10 of the best phones on the market today under the reviews microscope. Whatever your mobile needs are, we've got a phone to ponder for you, as well as a look at the first 3G phone on the Australian market.
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