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  • Hacked smartphones pose military threat

    Hacked smartphones could endanger troops by sending location data to the enemy using mechanisms similar to those employed by recently discovered Android malware, experts say.

  • Professor Rod Tucker on access technologies in the broadband policies

    What are the key differences between the broadband access technologies being offered by the major political parties and what impact will the choice of technology have on the potential for future upgrades? To answer this question, it useful to divide the main competing access technologies into two main classes: Shared and dedicated.

  • 4G czar at Sprint backs WiMax 'singularly'

    Don't ask Matt Carter, president of 4G at Sprint Nextel, about LTE, a competing wireless technology. He wants to focus on Sprint's use of WiMax for 4G wireless networks.

  • 'WiMAX 2' set to be finalized in November

    While LTE starts rolling out from major U.S. carriers in 2011, the WiMAX Forum is hoping to have the so-called WiMAX 2 standard up and ready to go by the start of 2012.

  • Skype files for $100 million IPO

    Would-be Internet telephony giant Skype has filed the paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq, the company has announced.

  • Coalition to use analogue TV spectrum for its broadband network

    The Coalition has signalled that it will make major use of the analogue television spectrum, due to become fully available once analogue television is switched off in 2014, for the provision of wireless broadband under its newly announced national broadband policy.

  • Skype worries about iPhone, attracting business customers

    Skype is worried about whether the iPhone and other Apple products will undermine its VoIP services and is also insecure about whether it can achieve service levels good enough to lure business customers, according to the company's filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation to offering public stock for the first time.

  • Opinion: Mr Turnbull, you need to do the numbers

    Malcolm Turnbull’s recent claim that Australians will not want a 100Mbps connection, as offered under Labor's National Broadband Network, ignores the entire history of our access to the Internet and is recklessly misleading.

  • LTE tests signal Clearwire is serious

    WiMax carrier Clearwire is likely to adopt LTE (Long-Term Evolution), and its decision will probably be known within a year, analysts said following the company's announcement on Wednesday that it will test the network technology.

  • BlackBerry Torch could sink or swim on OS 6

    From a tech specs perspective, Research in Motion's new BlackBerry Torch smartphone isn't groundbreaking. Rather, its success or failure will hinge upon the strength of its revamped operating system.

  • Apple's iOS devices meet many enterprise security needs

    Apple's iOS, in the newer iPhones and the iPad, is now secure enough for many enterprise to deploy, according to a report from Forrester Research. But even the most recent version of iOS, in the iPhone 4, falls well short of the high security offered by Research in Motion's BlackBerry platform.

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