The new XT mobile telephony and data network continues to lure corporate customers into the Telecom NZ fold, away from Vodafone.
Fears that laptops issued to students under the Digital Education Revolution would be "sold at the pub" have proved unfounded, with the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) claiming it has suffered six losses to date.
Australian IT services group SMS Management and Consulting has started building its staff numbers again as it exits a year characterised by slightly shrunken profits and revenues.
Australian IT services outfit Oakton today revealed the extent of the damage it has so far suffered from the global financial crisis, with both revenues and profits sinking over the past year and further staff cuts made.
IBM has won the contract to build and supply the NSW Department of Education and Training's wireless network for 463 state schools.
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.
Now that the bizarre ruckus over eBay's proposed PayPal monopoly appears totalled, it seems a good time to ponder why eBay chose Australia to risk its reputation on such a massively unpopular scheme.
An Apple iBook owner suspected his cat had hacked into his password-protected notebook. It turned out he was right -- his cat, which liked sleeping on his keyboard, managed to automatically bypass the computer's security.
This week I learned about a "trick" that you can do in Windows which, as far as I am concerned, is a serious security risk.
Telstra executive Phil Burgess needs to take another look at his dictionary of Australian slang.
Sydney's first ever Media140 conference, held at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) studios, drew around 300 academics, journalists and media enthusiasts to discuss the benefits and risks that professionals face in using open social networks, such as Twitter.
By choosing the safe Windows XP choice for student laptops, the NSW Department of Education and training is turning its back on the chance to turn hundreds of thousands of students into armchair developers and handcuffing itself to a rocky Windows 7 upgrade path.
This morning, Telstra executives are limbering up behind the scenes as they get ready for their big yearly showing to shareholders at the annual general meeting.
Retail distributor Wilson Consumer Products has a long history of supplying field sales staff with mobile technology. But after an unsuccessful redevelopment of its original technology, it was forced to return to paper-based systems and has only recently found a solution.
The Linux vs. Windows security debate is a contest of examples, which stand in place of the concepts that comprise a larger, more fundamental question of what the security benefits and detriments are for the open source and closed source development models.
You know how MacGyver could make a car out of a ball of string, a couple of paper clips, and a garbage can? Well, you can't really do that with your Treo 600. But you can use a toothpick as a stylus, and more.
Intel has released software that lets computers read lips, a step forward that could lead to better voice recognition applications.
When people say "the world is getting smaller", sometimes it's not just a euphemism; they mean it literally. Responding to the trend drive technology is feeling the pressure to tighten its belt.
The majority of Australians are not prepared to pay for a new mobile phone handset, according to a ZDNet Australia user survey.
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