Say what you will about Senator Stephen Conroy, but he is clearly not a man afraid of confrontation. Well, he’d better not be, because by killing off the OPEL WiMax project he has just set himself up for a battle with Telstra of Biblical proportions — or a big meal of crow washed down with a $4.7 billion gift to SingTel Optus.
Category: Technology news
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Analysts predict bleak future for Windows
Calling the situation “untenable” and describing Windows as “collapsing,” a pair of Gartner analysts have claimed that Microsoft must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a has-been.
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2.4 million more Aussies now have 20Mbps
Telstra has announced it has finished switching on ADSL2+ at over 900 exchanges to give 2.4 million Australians a theoretical maximum downlink speed of up to 20 Mbps.
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Aus internet lagging behind the world: Telstra
Telstra says Australia is still falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to internet speeds, despite the completion of its new broadband project.
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165 apps running on Linux simultaneously
video response to the “100” applications running on vista and the “150” applicationss running on OS 10. here’s “156” on Linux 😀
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Telstra must delay CDMA switch-off again: Liberals
The shutdown of Telstra’s CDMA mobile phone network should be delayed once again, according to Liberal senator Simon Birmingham.
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Telstra confident over broadband deal
TELSTRA has moved to pre-empt the Rudd Government’s tender for a $9 billion broadband network saying it “expects to get the nod” for the project which will get an unprecedented $4.7 billion taxpayer subsidy.
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Telstra says broadband upgrade complete
TELSTRA says the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission does not understand the need for higher broadband speeds to be introduced as soon as possible.
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Photos: Telstra’s undersea fibre optic cable
Installing cables can be difficult — especially if they’re 9,000 kilometres long and up several kilometres underwater. Our photo gallery gives you a look inside the ‘Ile de Sein’, a ship used to lay Telstra’s latest fibre optic cable, which will become part of Australia’s global Internet network backbone.
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Australian iPhone release info revealed!
Apple Australia have today announced internally the details of the Australian iPhone release. The phone will be released in the last week of June to coincide with the opening of the Sydney Apple Store. The phone will also be unlocked for use with more than 1 carrier, providing evidence it may be a 3G iPhone we first see here.