The fibre-optic Basslink cable linking Tasmania to the mainland has officially gone live, with two customers, Aurora and Internode, hooked up to receive transmissions.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has called for tenders to build the $250 million backhaul telecommunications links, which target six regional centres in all states and territories except Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.
A massive failure of the triple-zero system to handle phone calls on the day of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires was due to the technical shortcomings among the state's emergency services, the Bushfires Royal Commission has heard.
The Australian Taxation Office today has confirmed Optus as its managed network services provider in a deal worth $186 million over four years up to $55 million less than previously indicated.
A new prepaid calling service offers Australians international calls from their mobiles at rates comparable to Skype.
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
The Debian project has announced that it is adding two new FreeBSD kernels to the unstable and experimental archive under the name of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Writing a blog about mobile technology on 28 April almost necessitates holding forth on CDMA shutoff. But if you ask me, there's something far more disruptive happening in the wireless world right now.
Despite the fact that a study out this month has shown that the cancer risk from mobiles is more hot air than anything, how many people would be willing to put a base station in their home?
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
The first navigation app with turn-by-turn instructions has hit iPhone's App Store and guess what? it's not the TomTom app that was revealed at this year's Apple developer's conference to such fanfare.
Firewalls have come a long way since we last looked at them in 2005, and have now become full-blown Unified Threat Management devices. We take a look at the top players.
In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.
Energizer chief information officer Randy Benz would be happy if he never had to run another server inside his company ever again; most of his company's services are already run by Microsoft as part of the software giant's emerging online model.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
The iPhone 3GS is faster and we appreciate the new features and extended battery life, but call quality and 3G reception still need improvement.
With the ReadyNAS Pro, Netgear has proven it's still king of the hill. However, some interface quirks, inelegant recovery from catastrophic volume failure, and poor volume, user and share management may put some users off.
The Agora netbook looks like a winner and may just upset the other players in the game thanks to its good build quality at a great price.
Kensington resurrects a dying breed with the SlimBlade Trackball, but the potential of its unique shortcut buttons devolves into a mess of clumsy extra functions and awkward movements that restrict productivity.
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