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Article | 4/05/2011 Dymocks taps Android for e-book, tablet move

National book retailer Dymocks has partnered with Acer to offer Android-powered tablets as a vehicle for e-book sales along with a new Android app.

Article | 12/04/2011 Vodafone drops Galaxy S price to $29, S II on the way?

What was once an expensive, high-end Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S, is now available from Vodafone from a paltry $29 per month, which could...

Article | 1/03/2011 Google, MYOB getting Aussie business online for free

Google and MYOB have teamed up to launch a new service designed to help local businesses get online with a free website, domain name and $75 worth of ...

Article | 12/01/2011 Vodafone reassures customers personal data is secure

Vodafone has attempted to hose down concern about alleged data leaks by sending an e-mail to its customers stating their information, including credit...

Article | 7/12/2010 Google debuts Android 2.3 'Gingerbread', eyes tablets

The latest iteration of Google's Android mobile operating system has arrived in version 2.3 – codenamed 'Gingerbread' – with support for larger, table...

Article | 10/11/2010 Digital TV divide 'closed' with $34M federal grant

Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has announced a $34 million partnership with regional commercial broadcasters to provide full digital T...

Article | 8/11/2010 Acer releases dual Android-Windows 7 netbook

Fans of Android and Windows 7 have a reason to smile with the release of the Acer Aspire One Happy netbook that runs the two operating systems side-by...

Article | 13/07/2010 Mobile phone coverage expanded via 'mesh' networks

Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide have developed a way to expand the reach of mobile phone networks by turning each mobile into a mesh ne...

Article | 31/10/2008 Ubuntu 8.10 released, Kubuntu gets KDE4

Canonical has updated its flagship Ubuntu Linux operating system to version 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” with the KDE-centric distribution, Kubuntu, the first...

Article | 26/11/2008 Open source identity: Asterisk founder and Digium CTO Mark Spencer

Imagine an IP voice and unified communications system that can be integrated into any application and customised to meet business needs. Sounds great,...

Article | 4/09/2009 Telstra Internet outage points to DNS failure

This week's fault that knocked out Internet access for thousands of Telstra BigPond customers was most likely related to the ISPs domain name system (...

Article | 2/09/2009 Perth joins Adelaide with $50m WiMax network

Following last month’s news that Adelaide will get a $3 million WiMax mobile broadband network, the Seven Network has announced plans to build a $50 m...

Article | 10/08/2009 Telstra offers Acer laptops with built-in mobile broadband

Telstra has added three Acer notebooks with built-in mobile broadband to [[xref:http://www.techworld.com.au/tag/nextg|its Next G device|TechWorld :: N...

Article | 13/07/2009 Telstra, Catholic schools build $146m broadband network

More than 1550 Catholic schools and Catholic education offices around Australia will be connected to Telstra’s network infrastructure following a two-...

Article | 7/07/2009 BHP backup drive nets data deduplication

Engineering and resources giant BHP Billiton has implemented hundreds of software backup systems on its server infrastructure that paves the way for d...