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  • Centenary of Federation: online celebrations connect the continent

    Throwing a good party and extending the invitation to the rest of the world is one of Australia's strength's. There have been countless millennium celebrations, fireworks extravaganzas and of course, the summer Olympics. In a couple of months the nation comes together again to mark the Centenary of Federation, which among other things, will include an online celebration of the role telecommunications has played in building a nation.

  • Lucent, Alcatel end merger talks

    Lucent Technologies and Alcatel executives have called off a potential merger of the two telecommunications equipment giants, raising new questions about the future of one of America's premier research labs.

  • EU teams with Korea on IPv6 development

    In a further boost for the worldwide IPv6 movement, South Korean authorities will now team up the European Union to develop applications and services using the new Internet addressing system.

  • Independent regulator for Thai telecoms close to approval

    As part of the on-going telecommunications reform, the Thai Post and Telegraph Department (PTD) will be converted into an independent body

  • eTerrorism: Keeping networks alive in New York

    As architects submit proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Centre, below the streets engineers are constructing a project of their own--one designed to keep the city connected.

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  • Tech Guide: Wireless glossary

    3G, GPRS, TransFlash, RS-MMC. Don't know what they mean? Check out our glossary of wireless terms.

  • The laptops that come in from the cold

    For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?

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