Telecommunications
NBN truck hits Sydney
Labor’s $36 billion national broadband network is a highly controversial policy with plenty of enemies around Australia.
Patricia Ilhan: In her own right
Friends, family and trusted advisers have helped Patricia Ilhan pick up the pieces and invest in a balanced future after the sudden death of her husband “Crazy” John Ilhan.
NBN ‘cutting through’ despite Thomson affair
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admitted the Craig Thomson affair is overshadowing the government’s political message but says the $36 billion national broadband network is still finding traction.
Countdown to space travel privatisation
United States rocket company SpaceX will soon launch itself into the history books when it delivers supplies to the crew of the orbiting International Space Station.
Thomson clone claims possible
A top security expert has labelled phone cloning claims by embattled MP Craig Thomson as “far-fetched but possible.”
AMD doubles down on entertainment
Intel’s chief rival AMD has launched its second-generation Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), claiming the new chips will have twice the performance per watt over the last generation, allowing PC makers to build laptops that run all day.
Bigger challenges still for telco head
David Ingle Thodey celebrates three years in the chief executive’s seat at Telstra today. It is one of the toughest jobs in corporate Australia. Many thought he wouldn’t last this long.
Quigley’s war from a hot seat
NBN boss Mike Quigley may not survive the next election but is prepared to go down speaking his mind.
Nokia details Lumia 900 plans
The world’s prettiest smartphone is coming to Australia in June. So is another Nokia phone that is not as pretty.
New homes dudded over NBN, says Turnbull
Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says the government's "prejudice" against the private sector left about 35,000 new homes connected to copper instead of fibre cable last year.
Reframing perception for profit
John Lyons on how to zoom in or zoom out on a situation to see where the opportunity is.
NBN on call at Varsity Lakes
NBN Co, the company building the National Broadband Network, has take a 1500 sq m tenancy on the Gold Coast at Varsity Lakes for its national call centre.
Smart telcos venture into new connections
Singapore Telecommunications is channelling the approach of venture capital in a quest to unearth new technologies and fight back against Apple and Google.
T-Box tension as IPTV boss departs
The departure of an influential figure from Telstra’s media arm has fanned speculation about the future of its internet protocol television offering – the T-Box.
Float or swim: How long will Facebook rule?
Facebook is undoubtedly a phenomenon – but is it a good investment? And as its IPO roadshow gets under way, many are asking whether we’ve already had too much of a good thing.
Innovation spurs IT start-ups
The momentum may be swinging back towards technology start-up businesses as the availability of IT infrastructure systems increases.
iPhone 5 facts hard to find
Apple just can’t decide what to do with next phone, the latest rumour says.
Fujitsu unveils $60m data centre upgrade
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has formally completed the $60 million expansion and refurbishment of its Melbourne data centre, Noble Park, which began eight months ago.
Telstra mobile customers to recharge on Facebook
Millions of Telstra mobile phone customers will soon be able to recharge credit or “top up” their friends using the world’s biggest social network Facebook.
Network slackers beware
A new service will tell businesses when their staff are hogging the corporate network for music and movie downloads – and potentially affecting critical applications and productivity.
TV Now ban bad precedent: Optus
Updated | The bitter stoush over Optus’s banned recording service “TV Now” is headed to the High Court, in a development that could complicate the NRL’s hopes of a $1 billion rights deal.
Optus revenue falls as competition bites
Singapore Telecommunications has notched up a 4 per cent increase in full-year net profit of $S3.99 billion ($3.17 billion) despite a challenging fourth quarter for its Australian consumer business Optus.
AMP allows votes via smartphone
Where shareholders were once forced to vote by mail or in conference centres, they’ll soon be able to do it from the comfort of their Apple iPhones.
Slimlandia: Carlos Slim muscles in on Europe
Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, plans to buy almost a third of Holland’s biggest phone company in a move that may herald an aggressive European expansion by the Mexican billionaire.
Argentina blasts Spanish telco as trade row escalates
The trade row between Argentina and Spain took another twist on Tuesday after the Spanish telco giant Telefonica was ordered to pay $US43 million for an interruption in mobile phone services lasting just a few hours.
Robots, telehealth in NBN sell
Labor has set aside $120 million in its latest budget to fund programs like NBN-controlled robots in museums and video teaching in the bush as part of efforts to justify the $36 billion national broadband network.
The light of experience
The lessons learnt in failure will mean that in your next venture you’ll be far less likely to fail again.
Optus customer growth slows
Optus has eked out modest customer growth in the first three months of the year, adding weight to fears of a slowdown in Australia’s mobile market.
Cyber crime more profitable than drugs, says Interpol
Interpol president Khoo Boon Hui says that organised international gangs are behind most internet scams and that cyber crime’s estimated cost is more than that of cocaine, heroin and marijuana trafficking put together.
ConsMedia included in Telstra’s plans
Telstra is working with investment bank Credit Suisse on its media strategy, including a potential tilt at James Packer’s pay TV investment vehicle, Consolidated Media Holdings.
