The fact that the spectacular expansion of internet activity has continued, and even accelerated through the financial crisis shows that the global exchange of information does not depend, in any important way, on the global financial sector.
Telstra today adjusted pricing for its wireless broadband service for the second time in as many months, introducing a new low-use entry-level plan and data shaping on higher use contracts.
The first attacks that are likely to have stemmed from a serious Domain Name System flaw have been reported.
Opposition Communications spokesperson, Bruce Billson, has misfired in an attack on the Federal government over the use of the AU$2.4 billion Communications Fund to back the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network.
In these eBay days, buyer's remorse is increasingly common. Less common is the remorse of the unbought a sensation now widely reported among major Yahoo shareholders in the wake of Ballmer's retreat.
For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.
Around one third of Australia's telcos have shut their doors over time, but that isn't stopping new ventures hoping to chip away at carriers' mobile call bonanza. By fighting carriers at the smartphone rather than the home phone, could the latest two contenders be onto something big?
Like many reporters engaged in the shady business of covering the Australian telecommunications sector, I spent Friday, 6 October, at Telstra's mammoth eight hour investor briefing in Sydney.
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.
CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group Robert Fort says that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of the company's culture. Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where listeners can now browse the entire store inventory online.
Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie have some big shoes to fill. The two execs talk to about how they plan to take over for Gates.
Hewlett-Packard executives are mulling plans to improve over the next 18 months the technology the company uses to manage its direct sales, while it continues with commercial printing efforts and acquisitions of software companies.
The wonderchip that wasn't serves as a lesson about how complex development plans can go awry in a fast-moving industry.
ViewSonic's LED back-lit monitor leaves a lot to be desired in the performance stakes, especially considering its price.
Does wireless technology provide freedom to work wherever and whenever, or deprive you of your freedom from work?
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Commentary: Where have all the local online retailers gone?
COMMENTARY--One year ago, Bill Gates challenged his Microsoft troops to make the company's products more trustworthy. What's been accomplished? A bit. What still needs to be done? A lot.
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