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  • UPDATE: Qld government muscles carriers into better coverage

    The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".

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    Australian research organisation CSIRO has been granted AU$14 million from the federal government to design a new ‘super’ highway claimed to be hundreds of times faster than the current one.

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    The victory of New Zealand's National Party in the country's elections over the weekend has vaulted the creation of a $1.5 billion national fibre broadband network to the top of the government's agenda.

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    Telstra's CDMA mobile phone network may now be the largest digital cellular mobile phone network in the world, covering over one million square kilometres.

  • Telstra moves to placate Australia's west

    With regional Australia continuing to protest federal government plans to privatise the remainder of Telstra, the telecommunications heavyweight has boosted efforts to appease residents in the remote west.

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    At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.

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    The current state of storage technology may be ho-hum, but industry watcher Jon Oltsik explains why CIOs need to be on the lookout for major--and rapid--product transformations.

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  • UPDATE: Qld government muscles carriers into better coverage

    The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".

  • MP3 for an older kind of highway

    Want to take your MP3 tunes on the road without the hassle of connecting a portable player to your car stereo? Kenwood's KDC-MP7018 is a medium-range, in-dash CD player that also plays MP3 files recorded on CD-R/RW discs.

  • ACA rules out lifting ban on mobile jammers

    The Australian Communications Authority has ruled out legalising mobile phone jammers, or making an exception for Australian prisons.

  • Will MPEG-4 Fly?

    A new streaming-media standard promises to unify a fractious market, but inferior quality and bureaucracy may block acceptance.

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