Pipe Networks CEO Bevan Slattery opens up on the risk the credit crunch posed to its Sydney-Guam pipeline and reiterates his opinion that the National Broadband Network builder had to be Telstra or no one.
Aussie software company MYOB has brought an application before the takeovers Panel seeking an order to prevent buyout consortium Manhattan Software Bidco from sending out its bidder's statement to MYOB shareholders.
Optus has threatened to pull out of the fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) tender process unless the government approves operational separation for Telstra and a delay to the bid deadline, while Telstra has threatened to withdraw if it does.
The Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group (AUUG) today faced a call from past president Greg Lehey to dismantle the 31-year-old organisation.
Google announced on Wednesday an update to its Google Desktop product, as well as several new products designed to enhance information gathering on the Web.
In a massive "special edition" of our telco podcast Twisted Wire, we talk to virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry about the break-up of Telstra, including man of the moment, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Sydney-based start-up Audinate is making traditional analog cabling obsolete in favour of TCP/IP-based networking technology. And it's doing a pretty good job so far, with its technology used by World Youth Day and the Sydney Opera House.
Sol Trujillo is leaving Telstra at the end of the tax year. So what is his legacy? On this week's Twisted Wire we give the report card on his performance at Telstra and look at some of his recent overseas history as well.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
It's a tough life trying to show off a state-of-the-art security monitoring system -- especially when helpful humans keep ruining the demo.
Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?
The story of how Telstra lost its network is one of hubris and bungling, of misreading the play in Australia by men from the US who thought they knew everything already. Shareholders should never forget this.
Legislation setting up the regulations for the National Broadband Network could be introduced to parliament as early as this week, which means Telstra will soon get some clarity about whether it's in a lot of trouble or just a little bit.
The remaking of the post-Trujillo era of Telstra continues apace, with Catherine Livingstone starting to put her own stamp on what was a fractious and fractured boardroom.
While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.
After years of flying high with no competition, GoToMyPC falls to earth against stiff competition from MyWebEx PC, which is free.
Commentary-- Killing a notebook is so spectacularly easy, I'm surprised it hasn't become a spectator sport.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
We take a look at the state of present-day tech to see how they might lead us to the tomorrow of Minority Report, and also take a light-hearted view at how you can fake the look for just a few bucks.
The stereotypical Australian sports fan, often characterised as a bit of a larrikin grown portly for love of the drink, is not what comes to mind when creating a mental picture of the ideal technology consumer. And it's difficult to imagine spectators at the GABA or the SCG civilly exchanging match statistics with PDAs rather than gibes and insults at the top of their lungs. Nevertheless if you're familiar with Palm's sporting achievements in the field of American baseball, the idea may not seem so far-fetched.
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