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Committee rejects Greens tower Bill

Committee rejects Greens tower Bill

A parliamentary committee investigating tighter mobile tower planning restrictions has rejected the former Greens leader Bob Brown's proposed changes to telecommunications legislation.

May 11th, 2012 in Telcos by Josh Taylor Comment 1 Vote
HP gets on board with e-waste scheme

HP gets on board with e-waste scheme

Hewlett-Packard Australia has made the first step towards carrying out its requirements under the Australian Government's Product Stewardship Act, picking Australia and New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP) to collect e-waste on its behalf.

April 10th, 2012 in Hewlett Packard by Michael Lee Comment 2 Votes
Libs slam Huawei ban, Greens want explanation

Libs slam Huawei ban, Greens want explanation

The Greens have called for the Federal Government to explain the reasoning behind its decision to ban Chinese network giant Huawei from tendering for the National Broadband Network (NBN).

March 26th, 2012 in NBN by AAP, and Josh Taylor 38 Comments 1 Vote
NextDC taps solar power for datacentres

NextDC taps solar power for datacentres

Datacentre company NextDC will outfit its Port Melbourne datacentre, M1, with solar panels over the next few months and expects to do the same with its other facilities in the next year.

March 19th, 2012 in Storage by Michael Lee 1 Comment Vote
Melbourne restaurant powered by urine

Melbourne restaurant powered by urine

At the Greenhouse restaurant, urine is harvested to create power. Is this the future of dining?

March 6th, 2012 in Pulse by Lieu Thi Pham Comment Vote
Carbon-reporting tool misses the mark

Carbon-reporting tool misses the mark

Limited functionality and security issues have dogged the Australian Government's online carbon-reporting tool, the Online System for Comprehensive Activity Reporting (OSCAR) — but it only has to survive until it's replaced by a more robust system.

February 8th, 2012 in Government by Suzanne Tindal Comment Vote
Sony develops battery powered by paper

Sony develops battery powered by paper

Termites, those pesky insects that you fear might invade and destroy your home, may actually be responsible for the new wave of eco-friendly batteries, if Sony has anything to do with it.

December 22nd, 2011 in Battery by Bonnie Cha 1 Comment Vote
IT Priorities: more focused on black than green

IT Priorities: more focused on black than green

Respondents to the 2011 IT priorities survey placed far more emphasis on initiatives to keep their company in the black, rather than focusing on being green. But can you do one without the other?

December 12th, 2011 in IT Priorities by Phil Dobbie 1 Comment Vote
Greens tower Bill will impact NBN: AMTA

Greens tower Bill will impact NBN: AMTA

Proposed Greens legislation to restrict the construction of mobile towers would impact the deployment of the fixed-wireless long-term evolution (LTE) network deployment as part of the National Broadband Network (NBN), according to the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA).

September 14th, 2011 in Greens by Josh Taylor 9 Comments 2 Votes
Energy efficiency Gmail's new selling point

Energy efficiency Gmail's new selling point

Google has another reason to lure businesses from running their own email servers: lower energy use.

September 8th, 2011 in Google by Martin LaMonica Comment 10 Votes

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CSIRO opens a new solar tower in Newcastle

CSIRO opened Australia's largest solar thermal research hub over the weekend, providing the Hunter region with another source of renewable energy and industry with a new hub for research. (Credit: CSIRO)

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The CSIRO yesterday began installing 450 large mirrors, known as heliostats, in order to create a large solar-thermal tower system in the hopes of fostering cheap solar energy

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Thanks Beta, I could hear the nurse walking down the corridor as you posted. Much better now.

1 minute ago by Doubt on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

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Before accusing me of fudging the figures, that was the percentage in April, the latest available. It seems that as the advantage of the ...

4 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

Currently about 50% of connections are at the 100Mb/s rate.
As a consequence, ARPU is significantly higher than the projected figures.

4 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

Currently about 50% of connections are at the 100Mb/s rate.
As a consequence, ARPU is significantly higher than the projected figures.

4 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

Wireless currently carries less than 2% of total internet data traffic. Simply to carry the existing traffic, we would need 50 times the ...

5 hours ago by GregoryB1 on Blowing the digital dividend on wireless NBN

The stupidest part about a wireless solution for the burbs is that it will actually cost more to put an antenna on the roof to get the si...

5 hours ago by GregoryB1 on Blowing the digital dividend on wireless NBN

The problem is not range of the cell in the urban areas where Turnbull wants LTE instead of fibre, it is the number of users. In urban ar...

5 hours ago by GregoryB1 on Blowing the digital dividend on wireless NBN

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Another thing I found so misleading here is the step on how you assume to make the USB bootable . (The NTLDR needs to be renamed to USBNT...

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You can also use the help of these links, just incase your stuff failed, I probably got Windows build by using the Pebuilder as per the i...

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Sorry no deal Cinders, I'd rather send my money to someone and watch them desperately try to stop the NBN as this has much better enterta...

12 hours ago by Hubert Cumberdale on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

What else can you expect from a Dodo customer?

12 hours ago by Hubert Cumberdale on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

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Oh please dont be unkind, I gotta have some fan's. btw I agree I dont set the standard, but who does I wonder?

14 hours ago by Doubt on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

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14 hours ago by Beta on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

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14 hours ago by Beta on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

War talk dominates #AusCERT 2012 - http://t.co/SlBpMj0c - #security #cyber

So we agree it was a stupid idea and even stupider comment then ;-)

14 hours ago by Beta on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

Not you obviously ;-)

And stop giving yourself thumbs up FFS.

14 hours ago by Beta on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

Ok Beta, understand now, just one point who sets the standard?

14 hours ago by Doubt on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

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Anonymous hacks Reliance's Internet filtering server - ZDNet (blog) http://t.co/uObU1HBP http://t.co/0UBXxwX4

Which Windows will make for a better tablet? http://t.co/4mAHg850

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Microsoft is serious about open source??? http://t.co/mqQGgta7

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Chrome overtakes IE: does it matter? http://t.co/e4SILk8a

A ZDNet study showed that British Facebook users are drunk in 76 percent of their photos.

The HDMI cable ripoff and why retail is really dying http://t.co/eFT7zEW7

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ZDNet reports Microsoft launches its own social service http://t.co/VJS5BkwF

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