Posts Tagged ‘broadband news’

Disastrous patch cripples CommBank

news The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is currently reeling with internal chaos and some service delivery problems, following what appears to be a disastrous misapplication of an operating system patch to thousands of desktop PCs and hundreds of servers last week. According to sources, on Thursday last week a patch was issued using Microsoft’s System […]

Anonymous posts hacked AAPT data

news The loose knit group of Internet activists known as ‘Anonymous’ over the weekend published some 3.5 gigabytes of data sourced from Australian telco AAPT, in protest against a wide-ranging package of surveillance and data retention reforms currently proposed by the Federal Government. In a statement which appeared to be by Anonymous and posted on […]

IT price comparisons not useful, says AIIA

news The IT industry’s peak lobby group today said it was “not useful” to directly compare prices on technology goods and services between Australia and other countries and that increased Australian prices on such goods reflected different conditions and protections locally compared with other countries. In May, following a public campaign on the issue by […]

Google didn’t quite destroy Aussie Wi-Fi data

news Search giant Google this week revealed it has not yet deleted all of the payload data its Street View cars had collected over the past several years as they brushed past Wi-Fi networks on their journeys around Australia, contrary to a statement in May 2011 that the data had been deleted. In April 2010, […]

Turnbull needs evidence for FTTN claims

analysis A consensus is developing amongst National Broadband Network commentators that Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull needs to provide more evidence that Fibre to the Node is the best style of broadband infrastructure rollout for Australia’s long-term telecommunications needs. Last week, Turnbull published an article on his website in response to a television appearance made […]

Carbon Tax: How will it hit servers?

blog How much impact will the Federal Government’s so-called Carbon Tax have on server hosting costs? According to Aidan Tudehope, the managing director of Macquarie Telecom’s hosting division, quite a lot. Tudehope has published a decent analysis of the situation on the blog of Macquarie Telecom-associated cloud computing provider Ninefold. A useful excerpt: “Lets select […]

Weighing the environmental costs: Buy an eReader, or a shelf of books?

This article is by Tom Rainey, a research fellow at the Queensland University of Technology. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis Bookshelves towering floor to ceiling filled with weighty tomes, or one book-sized device holding hundreds of “books” in electronic form: which one of these options for […]

Conroy savages Coalition’s rural fibre complaints

news Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has issued an angry statement rejecting Coalition criticism of Labor’s plans to deploy fibre to the home infrastructure in rural areas throughout Australia, demanding the Coalition “come clean” with its own plans for rural Australia. This week several Coalition parliamentarians issued statements criticising the National Broadband Network Company for what […]

Qld wrestles with WinXP upgrade

blog Work in the Queensland Government and stuck on a dated desktop PC running Windows XP? Bad news. Your newly appointed whole of government chief information officer Peter Grant is currently considering the case for upgrading the state’s tens of thousands of Windows XP-based desktop PCs, and the prognosis for a Windows 7 fix isn’t […]

NBN Co hires major critic as commercial exec

news The National Broadband Network Company has appointed an executive who has been publicly critical of the project to be its new chief commercial officer, a role which is strongly involved in selling the company’s services to its Internet service provider customers. According to his LinkedIn profile, Tim Ebbeck has taken up the role of […]

If Nicola Roxon doesn’t believe in her own policy, why should we?

This article is by Bruce Arnold, a lecturer in Law at the University of Canberra. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis Earlier this month the Hon Nicola Roxon asked the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) to conduct an inquiry into the Government’s proposals for […]

Has Anonymous hacked an Aussie ISP?

blog A number of technology media outlets yesterday reported they had spoken to a member of the Anonymous collective of Internet activists, who stated that they had broken into a major Australian ISP and were preparing to release a vast package of internal data to prove that the Federal Government’s surveillance and data retention plans […]

Enterprise will hold back on Windows 8

blog I recently came across a fantastic series of posts which pretty much sums up what I think about Microsoft’s incoming new operating system Windows 8. By Gartner research director Gunnar Berger, the series goes into a whole bunch of issues with respect to Windows 8 as the analyst attempts the tricky task of coming […]

How long before Vodafone hangs up?

analysis Vodafone Australia is spending hundreds of millions of dollars re-building its troubled 3G mobile network, boosting its customer service levels and trying to win customers back with attractive marketing offers. But the sad truth is that all of its efforts appear to be having little impact on its dismal future. If you read through […]

SAP Australia wins ‘biggest cloud deal ever’

news German software giant SAP has won a substantial deal with the NSW Government’s Trade Investment agency which it yesterday described as its biggest deployment of its Business ByDesign software as a service suite in Australia, and its first cloud platform win in the local public sector. “SAP Australia today announced that NSW Trade Investment […]

Adobe bucks IT price hike inquiry

blog US software giant Adobe is fast emerging as one of the toughest nuts to crack when it comes to the IT price hike inquiry currently being carried out by the Federal Parliament. Despite the fact the company’s substantial markups on products like Photoshop and its Creative Suite were frequently mentioned in submissions to the […]

MyNetFone supplies VoIP to Tassie Govt

news IP telephony and broadband company MyNetFone this week revealed it had been selected by the Tasmanian Government to supply Voice over IP telephony services to the state, in a three-year deal expected to be worth some $20 million over the period. The State Government – which in the past had traditionally had an extensive […]

Transformer Pad Infinity lands Aug 7

blog I know quite a few of you have been holding your tablet cash in reserve waiting for ASUS’ Transformer Pad Infinity, and who can blame you? With a 1920×1200 resolution 10.1″ screen, a Tegra 3 quad-core CPU at 1.6GHz, SonicMaster sound and, of course, that quality dock/keyboard combo, it has looked for some time […]

Turnbull accuses ABC of NBN “propaganda”

news Malcolm Turnbull has accused the national broadcaster of creating “relentless propaganda” to support Labor’s flagship National Broadband Network project, in a stance which the Shadow Communications Minister yesterday described as “embarrassing”. The ABC’s Technology Games sub-site has published a number of articles over the past six months by its editor Nick Ross going into […]

100,000 Coles staff get SharePoint Online

news National retailer Coles yesterday revealed it had deployed SharePoint Online, a component of Microsoft’s software as a service-based suite Office 365 to some 100,000 Australian staff, in the latest indication that the cloud platform is gaining traction amongst large Australian enterprises. “Coles, a leading national food, liquor and convenience retailer in Australia has today […]

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