University areas to form network basis.
Vividwireless will create metro extension networks in five capital cities within 12 months of its Perth “4G” wireless broadband network in March.
Category: Technology news
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Symbian makes its smartphone software open source
Mobile phone operating system can now be modified by anyone as Nokia’s platform struggles to compete with Apple and Google.
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Meet the Wikipedia of the mapping world
Thanks to its team of volunteers, OpenStreetMap has now mapped most of the world – including Haiti.
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Apple iPad will choke innovation, say open internet advocates
The Apple iPad’s closed, iPhone-like environment could shut out the next computing revolution, say industry veterans.
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Cloud Migration Strategy
Open any IT magazine today and there will be at least one article, and five advertisements for some new cloud computing product or service. It is not even fun anymore to talk about how big The Cloud will one day be, now how it might change the world.
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Social Technologies – Facebook and Privacy
If you are a regular Facebook user, you will have noticed that they upgrade the privacy features a couple of weeks ago. We were given a much wider ability to select what we want to expose publicly and to whom. Of course, some people were annoyed because the default setting if you took no action was to make everything you do public.
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Breakfast briefing: Twitter cashes in, Google opens up
The year ends with a shock as reports suggest that Twitter may be making a profit after deals with Google and Microsoft.
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The BBC’s digital rights plans will wreak havoc on open source software
The BBC is trying to dictate what kinds of televisions and set-top boxes we use to watch its programmes
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Breakfast briefing: Dark matters for physicists, but a burst of light for BlackBerry
Scientists think they may have detected dark matter for the first time; More than 10m BlackBerry handsets were sold in the last three months; and Ubuntu’s benevolent dictator steps back.
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MySQL founder protests against Oracle takeover
One of the creators of a technology that underpins millions of websites is asking people to protest against Oracle’s attempted takeover of Silicon Valley rival Sun Microsystems.