Prime Minister Julia Gillard has backed National Manufacturing Week (NMW), Australia's largest integrated manufacturing industry event taking place from 7–10 May in Melbourne, as a showcase of Australia's manufacturing strengths. ...
Tags: Service
THE Immigration Department has started investigating union concerns that Syntheo may have misused the 457 skilled temporary migration visa scheme in the process of fulfilling its contract with NBN Co. The Communications Electrical and ...
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TRANSFIELD Services has signed a two-year contract worth up to $170 million with NBN Co to construct the fibre network in metropolitan Sydney and suburban areas. The contract, which comes with two one-year options to renew, adds to the ...
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NEITHER Australia nor the world has seen anything quite like Labor's National Broadband Network. No other government in the world is committing the scale of funding - a cost of $37.4 billion - or attempting to build such a far-reaching ...
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France's digital economy minister Fleur Pellerin has endorsed Labor's $37.4 billion National Broadband Network, describing it as the "best long-term technology" for high speed broadband rollouts. Ms Pellerin said that although politicians ...
Former Telstra managing director Ted Pretty says parts of the National Broadband Network should be "reconsidered", as the company building the network seeks a review of broadband technologies used in the rollout. Mr Pretty, who oversaw ...
Tags: Telstra, National Broadband Network, network
UNTIL recently, you had to lay category 6 ethernet cable to achieve lightning gigabit speeds across a home network. The new 802.11ac standard for home WiFi aims to offer gigabit speeds across your home network wirelessly without cabling. ...
Tags: cable, home network, WiFi
SONY'S first digital baby monitor has night vision and a temperature sensor, and reports a baby's stirring on LED lights. NAVMAN MY ESCAPE II ($499) The MY Escape II is Navman's grey nomad special GPS. Navman research says over-55s are ...
Research in Motion today will launch its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone in what is its last chance to regain lost market share. RIM's share of the smartphone market was a healthy 19.5 per cent in late 2008 (Apples iPhone then had 10.7 per ...
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IINET has staked a claim on connecting emergency and police services to the National Broadband Network after the internet provider notched up a first in Australia by linking Tasmania's police departments to the fibre network. As part of a ...
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Just one in seven homes passed by the government's National Broadband Network have connected to the superfast fibre-based service. The NBN Co revealed late yesterday that while construction of the $37.4 billion project had passed 72,400 ...
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ST George Bank is about to unveil a service that displays customers' bank and credit balances instantly on Android smartphones without the need to log on. The bank is putting the finishing touches to the widget, which it plans to launch ...
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Telecommunications companies should take a page from the playbook of airlines and distinguish between premium-paying customers and cattle-class travellers, according to new research. A study of 260 small businesses with fewer than 20 ...
Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to Hitachi Data Systems CTO, Hu Yoshida. The change reflects a recent change in leadership in the larger company, ...
Tags: big data, converged it, Hitachi, IT, social innovation
Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Anthony Albanese and Minister for Finance and Deregulation Senator Penny Wong have announced the establishment of the Moorebank Intermodal Company and the appointment of the chair and directors to ...
Tags: Moorebank Intermodal Company, Sydney, government business, logistics