Networking giant Nortel has won a AU$2.3 million deal with the University of Western Sydney.
Macquarie University's cheap new wireless network continues to evolve and grow since it went live in mid-2005, with some of the original components being replaced by higher-quality and more expensive hardware from additional vendors.
Australian internet telephony vendor Freshtel has signed agreements to install internet phones in several local universities' student accommodation buildings.
The University of Queensland is playing broadband Santa Claus to nearby schools, with its new service UQSchoolsNet.
Without more investment in high-speed fibre broadband, Australia's competitiveness will suffer, according to academic Internet service provider Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet).
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
There must be something in the water in Canberra. After years of measured inaction, the Coalition is taking long-overdue steps towards universal broadband and working around Telstra's continued domination -- after 10 years of deregulation -- of the country's telecommunications wholesale markets.
Tracking developments in networking technologies such as IEE 802.11b and cabling standards, are part of James Ding's focus at the University of Sydney.
Can you imagine having more than 30,000 clients to service? Add to that integrating disparate systems and working out ways to increase the electronic availability of information and you get some idea of what Mick Houlahan’s day is like.
In an interview, Windows Live exec Chris Jones talks about what the 2-year-old is up to and comments on another youngster -- Apple's iPhone.
High-tech tensions at the University of Texas at Dallas are easing, as administrators are curtailing the regulation of private hot spots in campus housing, but problems with interference may continue.
It could well be the ultimate in hands-free adaptors: A researcher claims that in a decade, people will have wireless networks in their heads.
The University of California, Davis, gets a grant from the Defense Department to build a new generation of mobile phones that use optical signals to create speedier and more secure communication
Are streaming servers really the future of home entertainment? Networking experts SMC seem to think so.
The Nokia Wireless Keyboard is a good choice for mobile messengers.
Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it.
The HomeRF Working Group will no longer be developing its wireless networking specification, although university partners may continue the work.
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