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  • Free Wi-Fi network comes to Sydney centre

    Community promotions company myKP is intending to open a slew of hotspots across central Sydney and offering users free Wi-Fi connectivity in return for accepting ads.

  • Wireless access for Western Sydney uni

    Networking giant Nortel has won a AU$2.3 million deal with the University of Western Sydney.

  • No Bush mobile jams as APEC IT gears up

    Rumours of mobile jamming across Sydney during President Bush's APEC visit have been greatly exaggerated

  • Optus fibre break knocks customers offline

    Some of Optus' large enterprise customers lost some network services early last week after an optical fibre cable got the chop in Sydney.

  • CeBIT: Day One wrap

    CeBIT Australia 2007 kicked off yesterday with federal Communications minister Senator Helen Coonan saying that a thriving ICT industry was key to the country's economic growth.

  • Aussie PS3 launch events draw modest crowds

    Hundreds show up for midnight launches across Australia; retailers boasting record pre-sales amounts.

  • Sydney unis hold fire on Vista

    Two of Sydney's largest universities have signalled they will hold back on wide-scale adoption of Microsoft's Windows Vista until the next-generation operating system matures.

  • NSW calls for free Wi-Fi builders

    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.

  • Convict prison, naval dockyard ... now ICT hub?

    Cockatoo Island has variously been a convict prison, reformatory, -industrial school" for wayward girls, shipbuilding centre and music festival venue. Now, if the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust has its way, the island -- the largest in Sydney Harbour -- will be reinvented as a -centre of innovation" for the information and communications technology industry.

  • Sydney Water taps BI specialist

    Sydney Water has called for help with its burgeoning business intelligence (BI) program, with data associated with the utility's water quality and hydraulics monitoring operations identified as an early project priority.

  • Qantas leads Jericho Forum push

    Some of Australia's top corporate and government organisations are poised to join a global technology forum aimed at pressing security vendors to adopt new standards.

  • Sydney's disadvantaged get free computer training and Web access

    Disadvantaged Sydneysiders have been given a chance to learn new computer skills and gain free access to the Internet with the "BootUp Internet Cafes" initiative.

  • iPhone faithful still queuing

    One week after the Australian launch of Apple's much-anticipated iPhone 3G handset, locals keen to buy the device are still queuing outside the company's only Sydney retail store.

  • 800 sacked as Telstra integrates BigPond

    Telstra this afternoon said it would retrench about 800 staff as it merged its BigPond internet service provider unit with other divisions and established a new content division to be dubbed Telstra Media.

  • Stallman: 'Linux' trademark doesn't matter

    Richard Stallman, chair of the Free Software Foundation, said on Thursday that the Linux trademark fracas in Australia has distracted attention away from the real issue -- that of freedom to distribute and change software.

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