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  • Cricketer puts spin on Optus portals

    Fast bowler Brett Lee will spend time off the field putting his own "spin" on two Australian portals.

  • iPhone users claim Hutchison support

    A number of Australians posting on online forums have claimed to be able to use their unlocked iPhone handsets on mobile carrier Hutchison's network.

  • Optus dodges mobile in latest cap bundle

    Optus is moving into bundling, offering consumers what they claim is the first joint phone and broadband cap in Australia.

  • Optus retires on-demand desktop apps

    Optus plans to pull the plug on the non-e-mail elements of its Online Office solution, a joint offering with IBM that provides business customers with applications like Microsoft Office via a Web portal.

  • Optus converges with Ninemsn

    Customers of telecommunications provider Optus will receive exclusive content and services from Web portal Ninemsn under a new, wide-ranging alliance.

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    Broadband, wireless, the increasing prevalence of voice technologies, Web services .Net and Java based platforms - 2003 is already shaping up to be an interesting year.

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    ZDNet Australia takes a long hard look at the top tech stories of 2002, a year characterised by corporate collapses, broadband proliferation and slow recovery.

  • Can IT save Easter?

    Australia's Easter Bilby faces a logistical nightmare ever year as it sets out to make its chocolate deliveries. ZDNet Australia asked a number of systems integrators how they would solve the Easter Bilby's computational conundrums.

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  • Optus and Microsoft release Smartphone

    Optus has teamed up with Microsoft to release a GPRS "Smartphone", re-emphasising the carrier's intention to steer clear of 3G services in the near future.

  • Is WAP doomed in Australia?

    Too-high prices, a lack of applications and carrier-imposed content restrictions may doom Australian WAP -- touted as the global mobile market's next big thing -- to be nothing more than a pricey "toy". Say it ain't so.

  • Can SMS save mobile commerce?

    Let's face it, mobile commerce never delivered on the hype that surrounded it over the last few years. But that doesn't mean mobile commerce is dead, thanks to a new use of an old technology.

  • Ring ring:10 mobile phones tested

    Everybody is different, and everyone's needs from a mobile phone differ markedly. Check out our Australian reviews of 10 distinctly different phones.

  • The PC-to-Mobile connection

    The mobile phone may not yet be your all-in-one communications device, but some very innovative Web sites are making the PC-to-mobile connection a very attractive way to stay in touch.

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