Residents and businesses at around 25,000 premises in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania will be forced onto the National Broadband Network (NBN) in around 19 months, after copper and cable internet in their suburbs is switched off.
Category: Technology news
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Apple Turning to Select Retail Store Employees to Help Improve Maps for iOS 6
MacRumors has learned that Apple is piloting a program to tap into its vast number of retail store employees to help improve the company’s new Maps app for iOS 6.
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iiNet tips AU$5 monthly data-retention tax
iiNet has estimated that it will have to charge its customers AU$5 extra per month in order to meet government demands to retain customer data for two years.
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TPG’s unlimited data plans on NBN will stimulate competition, NBN Co says
Jim Hassell from NBN Co has said there are no barriers to other companies offering unlimited data plans on the NBN.
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Hitachi invents quartz glass storage capable of preserving data for millions of years
itachi has managed to develop a long-term data storage solution it claims can preserve information for hundreds of millions of years. The technology, announced earlier this week in Tokyo, utilizes a high-precision laser to embed dots of binary code across a tiny piece of quartz glass.
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VMware opens new Australian HQ
Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure vendor, VMware, has opened its new, national Australian headquarters in Sydney, more than seven years after the company first started operating in Australia.
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Google launches underwater Street View, a new virtual map of oceans
Today, Google Maps unveils a new Street View feature: underwater panoramic views of six special sea spots. The idea is to create a virtual map of the oceans, documenting the state of fragile ecosystems as they change over time, and sharing a vivid experience of part of our world that few humans get to see up close and in person, in real life.
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Footballers get a kick out of the NBN
It’s Grand Final Week is football-mad Melbourne.
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Wozniak likes NBN so much, he’s applying for citizenship
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has listed the rollout of a national broadband network as one of the reasons he wants to become an Australian.
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Robots join the fight against cancer
A 30cm (1ft) snake slowly moves through the body of a man on a spotless table, advancing its way around the liver.