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  • 3 launches Facebook phone

    Mobile operator 3 has unveiled a phone designed for accessing web 2.0 services such as Facebook.

  • Welcome to Twitter, Prime Minister

    Dear Mr Rudd, it's wonderful that you've joined Twitter. Of course Mr Turnbull was here a month before you, but Twitter has been around more than two years. You're both complete n00bs. May I offer some tips?

  • Coonan returns to NBN debate

    The Rudd government was "hopelessly compromised" on its plan to build a national broadband network, former Communications Minister Helen Coonan said this week.

  • 3 offers a year's worth of mobile broadband

    3 Mobile has launched a prepaid option for its broadband service with an offer of twelve months of internet being a first in the Australian mobile broadband market.

  • ISPs cautiously re-commit to Tasmania

    Large internet service providers Internode and Netspace yesterday committed to ramp up offerings in Tasmania as soon as the Basslink fibre cable was switched on. But doubts remain about how likely this is to actually happen.

  • Tasmania resolves Basslink stalemate

    The Basslink undersea fibre-optic cable linking Tasmania to the mainland could become operational from early 2009, after a long-awaited agreement was inked today between the key stakeholders involved in the endeavour.

  • Microsoft offers free software for start-ups

    In its boldest bid yet to win the affections of emerging businesses, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a program that will allow some start-ups to use its server software free of charge.

  • Developers want Ballmer to show money

    Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers.

  • Intel i7 to hit Australia next week

    The first of Intels new Core i7 family of processors is being advertised by several Australian technology e-tailers and will be on the shelves by November 12.

  • Network outages 'normal': Optus

    Optus this week claimed the 3G mobile outages it had been suffering were normal and every telecommunications carrier would be having similar issues.

  • Breach in Terria's hull sealed

    The telco exodus which has plagued the Terria broadband consortium over the last week is now over, according to remaining members, who yesterday pledged their support as being "rock solid".

  • Sports CIO Stokoe shifts upward

    The Australian Sports Commission today confirmed its chief information officer Paul Stokoe had recently left, with the executive believed to have moved into a larger Canberra government agency.

  • Telstra outlines 21Mbps Next G plans

    Telstra today said it would start upgrading its Next G mobile network to 21Mbps speeds by the end of the year, with Canada-based supplier Sierra Wireless working on the first customer access device.

  • Caspari needs to come clean

    The first task on new EDS Australia and New Zealand vice president David Caspari's plate should be to come clean on exactly what the local consequences of HP's acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant will be.

  • First Android phones go on sale

    US mobile carrier T-Mobile yesterday made the formal, nationwide launch of its G1, the first phone to run Google's Android operating system.

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