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  • Telstra suffers nationwide web outage

    Telstra's internet services suffered a nationwide outage this morning for around one hour, according to its spokesperson.

  • iiNet confirms layoffs last week

    Despite a recent upbeat profit guidance, Western Australian ISP iiNet last week let go of a number of staff; but it won't divulge numbers.

  • Optus silent on iPhone 'tethering' charge

    Optus has refused to confirm or deny whether it will charge separately for data transmitted over an iPhone when it is used as a modem, but could be set to launch a $19 per month plan for an unspecified iPhone model.

  • Adam Internet defends antisemitic hosting

    Adelaide-based ISP Adam Internet has defended its decision to continue to provide web hosting services to a holocaust denier, despite a federal judge ordering years ago that his site be taken down.

  • Optus: NBN deal makes 'absolute sense'

    Optus has thrown its weight fully behind the government's decision to change the goal posts of its National Broadband Network to fibre-to-the-home technology and to form a new majority government-owned entity to build it.

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    Ceci n'est pas une blacklist

    Even the dim-witted bad guys in the Bond flick Quantum of Solace know that concentrating lots of power in a small place may not be the best idea. So how could Stephen Conroy and ACMA have been surprised when the alleged web filter blacklist made its debut?

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Unwired and The Big Sleep

    Unwired was apparently banking today that any announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange involving Google would boost the carrier's stock price.

Features and Case Studies (6)

  • Looking beneath the net neutrality surface

    IBRS advisor Guy Cranswick argues that the use of net neutrality is an aggressive manoeuvre to retain market share and withhold change in the telecommunications market.

  • Whirlpool founder Simon Wright: Profile

    Whirlpool founder Simon Wright explains how he built the influential broadband forum, what makes it tick, and why he won't commercialise the business.

  • Manning the wheels of IT

    The global CIO of recruitment and staffing agency Manpower talks about the issues involved in turning around the company's IT operations.

  • BigPond blues

    It's been an exceptionally busy period for the nation's largest Internet service provider, but all for the wrong reasons.

  • Is SAP's tap running dry?

    SAP may not be a household name, but it's the third largest independent software company, and has a powerful franchise. But in recent times, a confluence of economic trends threaten its enviable position.

Reviews (4)

  • Wireless -- willing but not able

    Australia still has way to go before it can meet its full potential with wireless and broadband.

  • BigPond not up to scratch?

    Reading over the results from the Australian Broadband Survey for 2004 confirms what many ZDNet Australia readers have written about over the past year: Telstra drastically needs to improve its BigPond service.

  • Keep hot-spot hackers at bay

    Wi-Fi access is a great convenience, but frankly, it's beginning to worry me.

  • The broadband route: 12 routers tested

    Looking for an easy way to extend that broadband connection to more of your organisation's PCs? One of these broadband routers could be the solution.

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