Labor a step closer to passing NBN bill
UPDATED Joe Kelly, James Massola THE Gillard government is closer to passing key National Broadband Network legislation after agreeing to release a summary of the NBN business plan.
Acer jumps on tablet, apps store train
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson in New York THE world's second-largest computer maker has thrown its weight behind tablet computers, unveiling five new tablets due to launch in the coming months.
Christie's takes bite at rare Apple computer
ITS processor works 1000 times slower than the Apple iPad, but the first ever Apple computer has sold for 425 times the price.
Bankwest in $20m data centre deal
Fran Foo
BANKWEST has tapped Fujitsu Australia to supply data services over the next 10 years in a deal worth at least $20 million.
NBN live blog with Malcolm Turnbull
JOIN Malcolm Turnbull in a live blog this Thursday as he answers your questions on the National Broadband Network and the opposition's communications policy.
Novell cancels financial update after buyout
Shara Tibken, Tess Stynes NOVELL has cancelled its conference call with management to discuss its fourth fiscal quarter and full fiscal year 2010 financial results.
Xenophon 'still talking' on key NBN vote
Joe Kelly INDEPENDENT Senator Nick Xenophon has agreed to receive key information on the NBN after eleventh hour efforts by the government to win his support.
Exchange website's days are numbered
Bernard Lane A VIRTUAL community supposed to spread the gospel of better teaching and learning is to be wound down and warehoused.
Safety tips via social media
Andrew Trounson AN initiative that taps into social media networks to deliver information to international students on a range of welfare issues is being promoted.
PM acts to break NBN deadlock
Lauren Wilson and Matthew Franklin JULIA Gillard has personally intervened to rescue legislation underpinning the construction of the $43bn National Broadband Network from a hostile Senate.
Internet shoppers dent our profits: Harvey
Teresa Ooi HARVEY Norman chairman Gerry Harvey yesterday warned the market to expect a "pretty sizeable fall in profit".
Watchdog warns on telephony overhaul
Mitchell Bingemann and Annabel Hepworth THE competition watchdog has called on the government to be more transparent over its proposed overhaul of telephony services.
One more review of NBN deal
Annabel Hepworth YET another investment bank is working on a report to the Gillard government on the National Broadband Network.
News buys into Wireless Generation
NEWS Corporation will pay $US360 million ($A364.7m) in cash for 90 per cent of Wireless Generation, a US education technology company.
Xenophon digs in his heels over the NBN
UPDATED Lauren Wilson INDEPENDENT Nick Xenophon is digging in his heels and looks set to push to defer a key vote on Telstra until he sees the NBN business plan.
Fujitsu unveils new data centre in Perth
Fran Foo
FUJITSU will today officially open its multi-million dollar data centre in
Prime Minister Julia Gillard will only release the full summary of NBN Co's business case -- not the entire plan -- after demands by independent senator Nick Xenophon.
Kinect redefines motion sensing
COUCH potatoes beware: hot and sweaty full body motion sensing gaming has arrived to rock your world this Christmas.
Afaria goes with the flow
THE Water Corporation has to support more than 800 field crews who cover an area of 2.5 million sq km of Western Australia.
Willy Wonka way to a fountain of wealth
SOMETIMES Defrag likes to kick back and wonder why we're not obscenely wealthy, reclining in the tropics with a cocktail in our hand.
Telecoms Top Gainers & Losers
| Company Name | Price | Change | %Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freshtel Holdings | 0.00 | +0.00 | UP | +50.0% |
| NewSat | 0.01 | +0.00 | UP | +20.0% |
| Hutchison | 0.10 | +0.00 | UP | +5.0% |
| iiNET | 2.74 | +0.09 | UP | +3.39% |
| Telstra Corp | 2.79 | +0.05 | UP | +1.82% |
| BigAir Group | 0.18 | -0.02 | DOWN | -10.26% |
| Vocus Communications | 1.36 | -0.14 | DOWN | -9.34% |
| Amcom | 0.34 | -0.01 | DOWN | -1.45% |
| Macquarie Telecom Group | 8.30 | -0.10 | DOWN | -1.2% |
| Singtel | 2.40 | -0.02 | DOWN | -0.83% |
IN DEPTH
Microsoft Phone 7 a good fit for Omnia
Stuart Kennedy MICROSOFT is coming from far behind in its latest tilt at the smartphone operating system market.
Finding food outlets on your hand-held
Chris Griffiths THE modern restaurant and fast-food app not only finds a suitable outlet nearby.
Disconnect from circle of unfollowers
DEFRAG: Kerrie Murphy THE problem with social media is spelled out right there in the title: the word social. As in, interacting with other people.
Customised program smashes bottlenecks
Jennifer Foreshew HOW the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance fixed internal bottlenecks.
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