Australian service provider, Telarus, has again looked to Cisco for its just completed network upgrade, claiming the vendor's offering was best suited in helping it deliver customers a network capable of handling high loads of QoS-enabled IP traffic.
Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is a happy man at the moment. Five years ago his company lost $25 million. Last year it generated profit of $1.3 billion. This success is thanks mainly to its iPod music player.
The volunteer-based Debian GNU/Linux is experimenting with a new project aimed at securing funding to pay key release managers in an effort to ensure the forthcoming Debian 4.0, codenamed etch, is released on time.
Australia's appetite for broadband continues at a healthy pace, with more than 3.5 million people now hooked up with fast Internet connections. But a stark decline in this growth is around the corner, warns an industry analyst.
Chat rooms provide a great avenue for children to shoot the breeze with peers; however, they also have an unsettling side: where paedophiles, hiding behind masks, attempt to lure young ones from their homes. Realising this threat, the Australian Communications and Media Authority along with the police, are using a role-playing activity that helps educate children about child porn seeking adults, and ensure they are free from potential harm.
Despite a loss of $34 million for the year, things are going well for Unwired according to CEO David Spence.
While ever regulators "pillage" the backpockets of Telstra shareholders, the chances are slim that the telco will rollout a high-speed broadband network.
Open source developer and evangelist Bruce Perens says he is not overly concerned about being voted off the board of Software in the Public Interest, the non-profit open source organization he founded a decade ago.
Fifty lucky residents in the Victorian alpine town of Mt Beauty will get access to free broadband as part of a trial by SP AusNet to test the viability of delivering Internet over power lines.
Country Energy (CE) is expected to supply the first commercial Broadband over Power line service in NSW in the latter half of the year. This means Internet surfers in regional NSW will, for the first time, have access to speeds that smash what is available to most users in the city.
Uncertainty in the current telco climate continues to hamper deployment of broadband rollouts and next generation services, according the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Red Hat is embarking on a two-month tour of the Asia-Pacific region spreading news about its latest Linux offering as well as open source alternatives in the virtualization and middleware space.
Its ability to work easily on older hardware and relative immunity to virus has made the progression to the GroupWise 7 collaboration suite a logical step for TAFE Tasmania.
While Microsoft spent last week promoting the latest cutting edge enhancements to Exchange Server 2007 at TechEd 2006, users of Novell's GroupWise, which is marketed as an alternative to Exchange, remain firmly loyal to their product, citing its simplicity as key to its survival.
For some Australians the idea of a good time is watching Big Brother live on their mobile phones. And they don't want to miss a riveting moment - someone sleeping; another eating peaches out of a wine glass; or some standoffish behaviour in the household.