Telecommunications carrier Uecomm has agreed to sell its western australian fibre network to electricity utility Western Power for AU$5.14 million.
A West Australian power company today said its infrastructure had provided a viable option for piping commercial fibre-optic broadband to customer premises.
Customers of Australian ISP, iiNet, faced a five hour service outage last night reportedly caused by an electrical storm.
Western Australia's largest energy retailer Synergy stated in yesterday's Western Australian State Budget that it plans to establish its own IT environment.
Western Australian energy company Western Power has reduced peak power energy use by 27 percent, or 3.5kW per home, by remotely switching off the compressors in trial customers' air conditioning units for a few minutes.
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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.
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Western Digital is eyeing an entry into the market for hard drives used in notebook PCs.
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.
Western digital has released a range of hard drives purporting to save up to 40 percent in power consumption over comparable drives. We found the drives not only lived up to promised efficiency, but also were competitively priced.
Western Digital's My Book Mirror Edition is good value, and if the lack of transfer speed doesn't deter, then short of an NAS it's one of the better ways consumers can keep their data safe.
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