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  • Optus' mobile business keeps growing

    Australia's second biggest telecoms group Optus grew net profit by 1.8 per cent in the second quarter of this financial year, on the back of a growing mobile customer base.

  • Vodafone grows Aussie customer base

    Vodafone Australia added 84,000 customers in the sixmonths to September for a total of 4.1 million, despite what it called a challenging economic environment. But profits fell.

  • Vodafone takes Crazy John's stake

    Vodafone Australia has purchased independent phone retailer Crazy John's after reaching an agreement with the widow of the company's founder, John Ilhan.

  • Optus' Qld problems continue

    Optus services were disrupted for the third time in three weeks in Brisbane today due to software problems.

  • Optus numbers flat

    SingTel subsidiary Optus today reported net profit of $122 million for the three months to June, little changed from the same period the year before as the company took charges for depreciation in networks and new offices.

Blogs (3)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Beijing Olympics? Paranoia will protect your data

    If you're heading to the Beijing Olympics to cut deals, schmooze and booze, don't leave your laptop and mobile with your hosts for a second and watch your gadgets very, very carefully. Of course, it might cost you a deal because you're acting weird, but your data will be safe.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Calling all Aussie telecomms bloggers

    Do you have a blog that mentions Australian telecommunications?

Features and Case Studies (93)

  • Windows Live hits the toddler stage

    In an interview, Windows Live exec Chris Jones talks about what the 2-year-old is up to and comments on another youngster -- Apple's iPhone.

  • Fone Zone's PowerPoint hangup pays off

    Most businesses see PowerPoint as the be-all and end-all when it comes to distributing information. As David Braue finds, however, Fone Zone's willingness to look further has paid many benefits.

  • For Opera, smaller really is better

    Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.

  • Expert: Mobile phone virus threat is overblown

    Instances of infected smart phones are almost nonexistent, according to a mobile phone support exec.

  • Mobility madness: Managing mobile devices

    Today's smart phones are less about ring tones and more about extending your corporate applications well and truly into the field. Say goodbye to the deskbound worker -- and hello to a potential data and security nightmare, warns David Braue.

Reviews (85)

  • First Take: Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 Premium

    Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 is a premier design environment, combining image-editing and layout apps for both print documents and the Web.

  • Beefing up mobile blogging

    Blogia is touted as more robust and full-featured than other "moblog" offerings.

  • Wireless warrior: Buying a business notebook

    The best business notebooks combine portability, performance, battery life and integrated wireless networking. We show you how to make the right purchasing decision.

  • Mobile mockery

    The choices are endless -- but do we really need everything our mobile phone sells us?

  • A marriage from hell

    The tendency for mobile devices to stay faithful to the first access point they connect to is leaving users with weak signals and awful throughput rates.

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