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Broadband usage tops 3.6m
There were more than 3.6 million broadband connections in Australia as of 30 September last year, a report by the nation's competition regulator revealed on Friday. Read more »
Pipe dreams of high-speed Australia-NZ cable link
New Zealanders may soon score a new high-speed cable link to Sydney boasting 240Gbps international capacity, after Pipe Networks announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kiwi telco Kordia. Read more »
Intel to publicly back municipal broadband
Intel is expected to back efforts by public sector bodies to roll out broadband services, in an attempt to counter moves by telcos who fear such plans will cut into their profit margins. Read more »
Coonan plots broadband masterplan
Federal Communications Minister, Senator Helen Coonan, is developing a broad-ranging plan to coordinate public and private investment in next-generation broadband infrastructure. Read more »
Motorola splits into two companies
Under pressure from investors, Motorola has decided to split into two publicly traded companies, one handling handsets and accessories and the other taking on wireless broadband networks and enterprise-level communications services. Read more »
AARNet: Aussie innovation demands bandwidth
Without more investment in high-speed fibre broadband, Australia's competitiveness will suffer, according to academic Internet service provider Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet). Read more »
WiMax gets royalty-dodging patent pool
Six technology titans are banding together to jointly license patents that cover WiMax in an effort to prevent costly royalty rates. Read more »
Net applications speak 'wiki'
Excite.com co-founders will announce a new start-up geared toward letting developers build Web applications. Read more »
Australia a step closer to WiMAX
Wireless broadband users in Australia could enjoy maximum surfing speeds of 75 megabits per second by mid-2006, analysts say. Read more »
IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene. Read more »
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VPN users: The weak link in network security?
VPNs made it easier for remote workers to connect to the corporate network. But those remote workers also pose a security risk. Follow these tips to mitigate that threat. Read more »
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Google VP's view of the Web
-- Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf spoke to an enthusiastic crowd overflowing into the halls of the University of New South Wales this morning Read more »
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This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.