Networking giant Nortel has won a AU$2.3 million deal with the University of Western Sydney.
update: The New South Wales government has called for expressions of interest from industry groups to build and operate its planned free Wi-Fi broadband network.
Dubai-based international airline Emirates will try to attract more long-haul business customers by providing the world's first regular, airborne wireless laptop service.
Personal Broadband Australia (PBBA), a wireless Internet provider, has been issued with a carrier license by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA).
The NSW government has scrapped plans to offer free Wi-Fi in Sydney, citing spiralling costs and overseas failures for killing the project.
Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.
Just a few days after the Australia Connected program was launched Communications Minister Helen Coonan was selling the initiative to the TV talk shows.
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
Dubai-based international airline Emirates will try to attract more long-haul business customers by providing the world's first regular, airborne wireless laptop service.
In an exclusive interview, the Australian Communications Authority's retiring chairman Dr Bob Horton explains why consumer rights continue to lag. He touches on other topics including regulating mobile adult content.
WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
Many times, service providers don't know anything has gone wrong until they're hit by a flood of user complaints. Such was the case for Telstra when its BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in Sydney came crashing down one day.
Don't let having a mobile workforce break down your communications. In Australia, some organisations, through the use of wireless integration, have increased their lines of contact, and not just out in the field.
Telstra's wireless CDMA 1x network is for Australian road warriors who don't mind paying big bucks for maximum mobility.
The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?
While most hopes for permanent wireless data connection lay with the new GPRS mobile phone network, one company is already offering a similar service to Australian owners of Palm V series PDAs and IBM WorkPads. Global Wireless Application Service Provider, dotWAP provides an 'always-online' wireless connection through a Neo1 sled modem operating over United Wireless' Mobitex packet-switched network.
The i-mate Ultimate 9502 is the larger sibling of the i-mate 8502, and shares the honour of being Australia's first HSUPA phone. While we believe this phone is in the same league as a BlackBerry or the iPhone, be wary of Telstra's promised internet speeds.
En route to Melbourne this weekend, Formula 1 team AT&T Williams' lead driver Nico Rosberg hopes to power ahead thanks to a new sponsorship deal with Lenovo.
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