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Article | 26/02/2009 Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo to leave June 30

Telstra announced today the company's much-publicised CEO Sol Trujillo will leave the company on June 30, 2009 and return to the US.

Article | 17/02/2009 Huawei unveils first Android smartphone

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei has announced its first Android-powered smartphone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to be comm...

Article | 17/02/2009 Telstra boosts mobile broadband to 21Mbps, 42Mbps to come

Telstra has launched what it claims is the world’s fastest mobile broadband service, with peak download speeds of 21Mbps and with the intention of inc...

Article | 9/02/2009 3, Vodafone to merge in 50-50 joint venture

Vodafone has announced it will form a 50-50 joint venture company with rival mobile carrier Hutchison Whampoa, owner of the “3” brand, and offer servi...

Article | 3/02/2009 Skype 4.0 adds better video, Linux update unclear

Internet telephony software company Skype is pushing ahead with videoconferencing in a bigger way with the release of version 4.0 for Windows, but the...

Article | 17/12/2008 In pictures: Blast from the Past 7 - 30 years of Star Wars technology

Past and present: how 30 years of Star Wars imagination changed technology forever. During 2008 Sydney's Powerhouse Museum played host to one of the l...

Article | 20/01/2009 Move over GNOME, Ubuntu Mobile looks at Qt, other desktop environments

The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may u...

Article | 15/01/2009 After 40 years NEC pulls out of Aussie retail, 200 jobs lost

NEC Australia today announced it will withdraw from the local consumer electronics market to focus on business services in a move that will result in ...

Article | 14/01/2009 Strange bedfellows: Sex and IT unite to stop Net censorship

Who would have thought the government's proposed Internet filtering scheme would bring together so many disparate groups all united in their oppositio...

Article | 18/12/2008 May the Force be with IT

If you saw the first Star Wars film in 1978 you would have been dazzled by the awe inspiring technology the protagonists took for granted. 30 years la...

Article | 23/09/2008 HTC launches Touch Pro, mum on Google Android phone

AS the industry prepares for the biggest mobile phone release since the iPhone with the Android-based HTC Google phone in the US this week, HTC has re...

Article | 2/09/2008 Microsoft launches ‘Students to Business’ career program

Microsoft Australia has launched its Students to Business (S2B) program to link students and graduate job seekers with local IT career opportunities.

Article | 27/08/2008 iPrimus launches price-capped mobile broadband

Telco iPrimus has launched what it claims is Australia's first capped-price mobile broadband service that slows the connection speed when the 6GB of m...

Article | 25/08/2008 Telstra shakes up mobile broadband pricing

Telstra’s BigPond business unit has cut the price of its mobile broadband services and now charges the same rate for wireless mobile card plans as it ...

Article | 18/08/2008 Vodafone launches mobile broadband on a USB stick

If you need wireless broadband, but don’t have a PC card to slot in a modem, Vodafone’s new USB Internet Stick mobile broadband service might be what ...