The Federal Government today revealed it had organised what it described as a "major forum" on the future of Australia's digital economy in the wake of the construction of the National Broadband Network.
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has begun to offer free Wi-Fi wireless internet access in over 100 locations across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, in an act of generosity to last the next few months.
Last month, Pipe Network's PPC-1 cable from Sydney to Guam carried its first light. This time, tests run with early customer, Internode, has seen the cable carry its first data packets.
Mobile technology specialist Myriad Group has acquired Xumii, a mobile social networking and instant messaging start-up with its roots in Australia that also operates in the United States.
Vaughan Bowen, chief of acquisition hungry telecommunications company M2, is eyeing a major billing and customer relationship management systems overhaul expected to be kicked off next year.
Two entrepreneurs flying the flag for Australia at the prestigious DemoFall 09 showcase in Silicon Valley last week made their presence known in the best possible way: by beating 70 other attendees to be named the best enterprise product.
I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.
We're not thinking outside the box enough on the problem of copyright criminality. I would like to propose a solution to that.
What do you do when you want to replace men with intelligent robots for dangerous surveillance missions?
Silicon Valley-based wireless technology start-up Quantenna Communications is planning to open a 30 to 50-person research facility in Australia following an injection of venture capital by the Australian-US fund Southern Cross Venture Partners.
Join us on a tour through a Chinese "Shanzhai" market, where you can get an iPhone in any colour or shape and with features Apple doesn't offer. But are these mobiles legitimate?
Australia's third-largest telecommunications company, AAPT, has been left at the altar so many times that there is understandable scepticism that it will tie the knot in 2009.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
The new interactive Telstra "flagship" store will be open from 2 November. Dubbed T.Life, the store is located at 400 George Street, on the corner of George and King on the group floor of the Telstra building.
Running IPSec to secure your network's communication traffic provides a very strong layer of defence to your network. However, it's important that you test these policies before deploying them and verify that they're running properly. Here are some troubleshooting tips for when you run into trouble.
This world roundup includes the grand opening of the first Apple Store in the southern hemisphere; the reason people in Japan are talking to plants; and a car tech test that will make you LOL.
CA's Melbourne office includes one of the largest antivirus research labs in the southern hemisphere. Part of that is a little room that contains numerous filing cabinets stuffed full of 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch disks, each of which contains a "live virus".
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 isn't perfect, but it's the best dictation software available.
When the truck full of armed soldiers pulled over and encouraged me to hightail it off a country road, I got the impression that I was in the wrong place.
How long will it be before your computer is able to read your facial expressions? Will a rude gesture become the next Control-Alt-Delete? ZDNet Australia investigates computing interfaces.
A long-held hope could be approaching reality, as researchers in the United States get closer to an eye implant designed to restore sight to the blind.
"Talk, then toss," is becoming a mantra in a small corner of the mobile phone industry. A new breed of wireless handsets, expected to hit the market later this year, is low-cost, extremely easy to use and disposable.
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