The United Kingdom's minister of state for the environment Phil Woolas paid a virtual trip to Australia yesterday as he used telepresence technology to speak at a Sydney conference.
The federal broadband department had one message for Australian telcos today: stop obsessing about who is going to build the planned AU$4.7 billion national broadband network and start getting ready to deliver services and market it to customers.
In the latest endeavour to encourage its remaining CDMA users to move to Next G, Telstra will be contacting users experiencing a number of dropouts on its 3G network to try and solve their problems.
According to Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo, it won't be long before Aussie households are demanding 100Mbps connections, while applications like artificial noses and thought recognition could stretch broadband speeds even further.
When the New Zealand Automotive Association (NZAA) call centre turned into the weatherman and traffic reporter for many of its members, the company's CIO decided it was time to let their operators take some more important calls.
If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
A guy I know runs a tiling business, which as far as I can see involves his drinking lots of coffee, making lots of phone calls, and making sure that around a dozen different tilers do the actual hard work. As long as they're busy, he's making money. If he finds enough new business to keep them all going for two weeks, he can take off for Hawaii -- and still be making money.
Friends, industry watchers, readers; I come not to bag Telstra, but to praise it. The evil that telcos do often lives on after their Investors Days, while the good is often lost during interminable speeches.
There are times when the tone of Australia's broadband discussions makes me want to laugh, and others when it just makes me want to cry. The past week has been one of the latter, after two very different broadband-related stories made their way across my desk.
Telstra-owned Sensis Classifieds, owner of the Trading Post, this week sent a threatening letter to rival OZtion over its use of the word "free to list" on its website.
The thriving community of Internet users that are opting for a 'Second Life' in virtual worlds are a tempting market for advertising. But is a virtual presence a viable option for big business?
As the place where all legislation governing New South Wales originates, NSW Parliament has more than your basic obligations when it comes to ensuring the security of its data. But how can a small government department, with just five network staff looking after a main office and network of 94 branch offices spread across the country, ever hope to keep up?
We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.
Telstra has extended the reach of its Virtual Private Network (VPN), TPIP, today launching a global service targeted at the business market.
The TU500 isn't going to win any fashion awards, but underneath its pedestrian skin lurks a highly capable Next G phone.
iBurst is a superb wireless broadband solution that's highly useful for the mobile business user, but users who don't require portability will likely find its price to be a deal breaker.
Vodafone has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to ease several regulations governing the Australian mobile phone industry.
Etiquette expert June Dally-Watkins has warned people to be careful when sending romantic SMS's to loved ones tomorrow as Telstra prepares for an expected 8 million messages to be sent on Valentines Day.
Videoconferencing at the beach may still be a pipe dream, but the mobile workforce is here today. ZDNet Australia examines how businesses are reaping the benefits of mobility.
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