The use of WiMAX technology to provide broadband Internet access for 14 South Australian towns could serve as a good test case for the National Broadband Network (NBN) roll out, according to a leading telecommunications analyst.
The Department of Defence has restated its goal of saving up to $1.9 billion over the next decade by spending $940 million to develop an improved Defence Information Environment (DIE) to support the armed forces and business reform objectives to 2030.
Canberra Data Centres (CDC) has launched a big iron modular pod service on non-raised flooring as it rolls out the set up before Christmas for Federal Government agency Centrelink.
Federal Government agency efforts to improve their use of ICT as part of Gershon Review changes will result in savings of more than $1 billion over the next four years, Minister for Finance and Deregulation Lindsay Tanner has claimed.
Internode is offering IPv6 services in native mode on its national ADSL network. The broadband provider said it had been operating a native IPv6 backbone from mid-2008 but it was only available to those with a direct Ethernet connection or with the ability to tunnel IPv6 through an IPv4 connection. The new offering is being run across the company's national network and provides concurrent IPv6 and IPv4 PPP access for any router or computer that supports it.
Robots from the US and Australia dominate the shortlist of entries for the first round of the Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC), sponsored by the US Department of Defense and Australia's Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO).
Computers and televisions will be the first products regulated as part of a national recycling scheme endorsed by state and federal environment ministers. Federal environment minister, Peter Garrett said in a statement that the new "industry-run national collection and recycling scheme" will be up and running in or before 2011.
As part of our series of investigations into interesting programming languages Computerworld talks to one of the creators of web development tool, ColdFusion – Jeremy Allaire.
IBM software customers may be forced to change suppliers after Big Blue decided to revamp its portfolio into two categories.
Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has praised Korea for its use of broadband infrastructure to boost its economic fortunes.
Fujitsu will open up a new tier 3 data centre in Perth as part of efforts to cement its place in the top three service providers in the country.
Fujitsu has decided to scrap the Kaz and Supply Chain Consulting brands after acquiring both of the companies earlier this year.
There aren't that many organisations which would consider consolidating 60 servers holding the most critical customer-facing applications down to one mainframe in the space of a weekend.
The organisation responsible for administering Australia's domain names has said it is willing to consider .au website addresses in other languages.
Tasmania-based Aurora Energy is looking for contractors to join a panel to help roll out fibre optic network extensions as the state leads the way in the construction of the National Broadband Network.