Telstra Overhauls Business Mobile Broadband After slashing its mobile broadband plans for consumers, Telstra has announced its new business mobile broadband prices and new Acer notebook bundles.
Telstra 42Mbps Mobile Broadband Coming In 2010 Telstra announced that its new HSPA+ Dual Carrier technology is now being tested outside of laboratories and is experiencing download speeds of up to 40 Mbps. The company is expecting this service to be available to customers in late 2010.
ISP Filtering May Block Important Sites The Federal Government plans for mandatory internet filtering may see a wide range of material disappearing from Australian computer screens, according to a report published today.
Telstra Supports ISP Filtering Telstra has responded to the government’s announcement of new online safety measures, with the company saying that blocking URLs on a blacklist is feasible and practical to implement, without noticeable impact on network performance.
Tethering Now On Telstra iPhone Telstra announced that tethering on the Apple iPhone is now available for its customers. This means that users can now use their iPhone as a modem.
Cables Laid Out For National Broadband Network The government announced that 6000 kilometres of cables will be laid out on mainland Australia that will act as the ‘building blocks’ of the National Broadband Network.
Ericsson Router Shares Mobile Broadband Forget about USB dongles for your wireless broadband, the Ericsson W35 allows you to connect multiple devices via Ethernet and/or Wi-Fi simultaneously, share a printer or storage device, make calls, and even receive fax.
Fastest Wireless Broadband Gateway Revealed Telstra has announced its fastest wireless broadband gateway that claims to deliver download speeds of up to 8Mbps. It has four Ethernet ports, Wi-Fi, and two USB ports used for printer or hard drive sharing.
New NBN Directors Revealed The Rudd Government has appointed five 'expertly qualified and experienced' individuals to the board of its National Broadband Network company.
Banking Scams Anger Consumers Users are heading to blogs, forums, and discussion boards to express their banking frustrations.
Surprise Surprise The ACCC Wants To Seperate Telstra A long time foe of Telstra the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is calling for the structural seperation of Telstra in a submission to the Federal Government.
NRL & ARL Join Forces To Barrack For Telstra On The NBN In a joint submission the ARL and the NRL have gone into bat for Telstra in a submission that claims that Telstra should be allowed to become a media Company operating on the new National Broadband Network.
ACCC May Have Control Over Who Has Access To Telstra The Federal Government has released a Regulatory Reform discussion paper that includes the ACCC having veto over companies wanting access to Telstra and other networks.
Shares Rise As Telstra Dealt Back Into Broadband Bid Telstra shares rose nearly 5 per cent this morning after the telecom giant was let back into the building of a $43 billion dollar national broadband network by the Federal Government .
WiMax On Hold As Media ISP Struggles For Cash Wireless broadband provider Unwired is struggling to find the money for its planned national metropolitan WiMax network, according to Australian IT.
100Mbps Broadband Now A Real Option Within 24 Months Telstra is about to crank up its broadband network in an effort to offer Australians a blisteringly fast broadband network that could be running speeds of up to 100mbps in about 24 months versus a minimum of five to seven years for the federal government-backed broadband network which Telstra was excluded from today.
Soul Loses Their Mojo and $18.9 Million Struggling ISP SP Telemedia which operates Internet and telephone services in Australia under the Soul brand, has reported a net loss for the year to June 30 of $18.9 million. It was only 12 months ago after taking on bottom end ISP TPG whose services were popular with students that Soul were bragging as to how they were set to carve up the Australian broadband market.
Qantas Bans Mile High Porn Thrills Qantas been sucked into an American airlines porn row with the Aussie icon now banning live internet access on their A380 planes.
Google Releases First Patch For Chrome Google has issued an update for its new Chrome browser, following a critical security flaw found by Vietnamese security researchers.
Chrome Grabs 1% Of Browser Market In 24hrs Talk about hot chrome--Googles new Chrome browser has already grabbed 1% of the browser market in its first day, according to a Web metrics provider and a report in computerworld.com.
Viral Social Networks Infecting Business Users Viral networks and social sites such as MySpace and Facebook have created a fertile ground for predators, scammers and identity thieves, according to an Australian information security expert.
.Org Domain Passes The 7 Million Mark The Public Interest Registry, the registry behind the global .Org domain name, says that more than 7 million domain names are now registered as .Org, making it the third largest generic domain (after .com and .net).
Malware Invoices & Viral Packages Flooding SMB Inboxes Many small businesses wrongly believe that they're too insignificant to attract hackers and spend too little time on security but according to Secure Computing, since the beginning of July there are steady waves of mass-mailings hitting inboxes with fake invoices.
Google This--Rival Search Engine Launched Today According to AFP, in 2004 Google thought that engineer Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so good it bought the technology to upgrade its own system.
Filtered ISPs Make Senator Conroy Breathe Easy Only days after hundreds of Australian businesses are still trying to untangle themselves from the so-called UPS parcel virus, Federal Communications Senator Stephen Conroy has welcomed news “advances in filtering technology”.
Aussie Online Addiction Costs Employers A new report out by Sensis shows that Australians are costing their employers money by spending too much time on social networks during work time, and at home a significant number of parents are not keeping tabs on their children’s internet habits.
Dirty Dozen Spammers Exposed As 1 In 28 Emails Prove Dodgy IT security and control firm Sophos has published its report on the latest trends in spam, and revealed the top twelve spam-relaying countries for the second quarter of 2008.
Primitive Infrastructure Stifles Internet Speed Australia’s lack of fiberoptic infrastructure could be seen as a stumbling block to taking on a new innovation developed by Australian researchers out of the University of Sydney.
Customer 2.0--Social Networking Sites The New Business Tool According to a recent survey by Gartner and other analysts, the majority of users of social networking sites are motivated mainly by “personal needs and a desire for entertainment, rather than business and practical objectives”. However some have seen the potential of such sites for business.
Banks Beware! -- WWW Found To Have Fatal Flaw According to a number of overseas reports, Internet industry heavyweights are trying to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that could allow hackers to control traffic on the worldwide web.
Symantec Says Word Attack Inevitable Symantec has posted a warning on its website that attackers are using an “undisclosed vulnerability affecting Microsoft Word."
Good News For iPhone Buyers--Telstra Gets Speedier In what could only be described as great news for those thinking of buying an iPhone 3G this Friday, Telstra says it broadband is breaking more speed records than an Olympic athletics meet.
Australia Losing Nearly $1 Billion To ID Fraud Over $980 million was lost as a result of personal fraud according to the first National Personal Fraud Survey, by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which was released today.
Asus Gives Radio Listeners A Green Choice With the support of more than 10,000 broadcast stations worldwide, users can now listen to whatever catches their fancy.
When they connect the ASUS Internet Radio (AIR) via a wireless or LAN (DHCP) connection, the whole world opens up as they can choose music from any genre from any corner of the globe.
Firefox Running Hot On The Internet According to online analysts firm Net Applications, Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 browser is now being used by over 19 per cent of web surfers.
Rudd Government To Review Its Own Online Security The Attorney-General Robert McClelland and the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy today announced a whole-of-government review of e-security.
Adobe Rolls Out Web-Based Rich Media Search Adobe Systems has announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs).
Yahoo!7 To Get A Major Nip And Tuck In terms of portal reassignment surgery, locally, it doesn’t get much bigger than this as Yahoo7 is set to announce the redesign of its online portal and also launch its biggest marketing campaign since the start of the joint venture between Yahoo and Channel Seven in 2005.
Telstra Claims QR Codes Will Change Advertising Industry Telstra customers will soon have software downloaded free to their mobile phones, through QR coding technology, giving them quick access to websites and mobile content via special barcodes.
Minister Angry Over Broadband Inquiry Broadband and Comms Minister Stephen Conroy last night accused the Opposition of "economic vandalism" after the coalition used its about-to-disappear Senate numbers to establish a Select Committee inquiry into the Government's plans for a high-speed national broadband network, to which it is supplying $4.7 million in funding.
Macquarie Pulls Out Of NBN Tender The national broadband network (NBN) tender process has claimed its first victim today as Macquarie Group has decided to withdraw its bid, leaving it two contenders left standing for the $12 billion project.
Domain Name Change Set To Trigger Web Explosion According to a number of overseas reports, internet users worldwide should soon be able to use new domain names such as .love, .sydney or .bank if one of the world wide web's biggest shakeups is approved this week as expected by the global web regulator ICANN.
Easy IP Surveillance From QNAP QNAP Systems has announced the NVR-1012 network surveillance kit for home and office.
The NVR-101 is an instant surveillance system providing professional grade live video recording and real-time remote monitoring/playback service.
Lodging eTax Can Be Hazardous Says F-Secure Security vendor F-Secure is warning Australian taxpayers to be cautious of end of financial year specific scam and phishing attacks. The warning comes after F-Secure’s Security Labs observed a new peak of malware this year targeting tax payers in the US at the close of the financial year.
Senator Conroy Becomes The Cybernator The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has turned himself into an online superhero in a bid to kill off spam, malware, hacking and other online abuse.
