Features
Article | 12/01/2011
Telecommuting is good for employees and employers
As technology evolves, many of the barriers that have traditionally limited telecommuting continue to disappear.
Article | 12/01/2011
Optus: 25 years of satellite technology
Following the formation of AUSSAT by the Australian Government in 1981, a government owned company designed to own and operate the national satellite ...
Article | 9/01/2011
Analysis: Why I'm not sold on mobile video chat
Prior to CES, there were only a handful of phones with front-facing cameras: the iPhone 4, the EVO 4G and the T-Mobile myTouch 4G to name a few. This ...
Article | 8/01/2011
Networking gets faster, more media-savvy
Home is where the network is: That's the mantra of networking vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas this week.
Article | 7/01/2011
The 5 coolest things to come out of CES
Anyone who's attended tech conventions over the past five years has heard plenty about 4G wireless networks, but this year the hype has become a reali...
Article | 14/12/2010
Goodbye Internet, we hardly knew ye?
This end-of-year article is a looking forward one -- looking forward to a year in which the Internet will be under a multi-pronged attack that threate...
Article | 9/12/2010
WikiLeaks: A case study in Web survivability
In recent weeks WikiLeaks has been targeted by denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, had its hosting service shutdown, been bounced off of Amazon hosting, ...
Article | 8/12/2010
Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011
A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are pr...
Article | 12/11/2010
What is the National Broadband Network? A glossary of NBN terms
The National Broadband Network will impact every Australian, linking every premises and changing the way we connect with the important things in our l...
Article | 23/09/2010
Samsung Craft: Hands on the first LTE 4G phone
It was pure coincidence that I happened to be in Las Vegas on the very day MetroPCS launched the country's first Long Term Evolution (LTE) services, s...
Article | 19/08/2010
National Broadband Network (NBN) FAQ
We've dissected the ins and outs of the National Broadband Network scheme to show what it means for you, the end-user.
Article | 19/08/2010
The web is dead. Who cares?
No doubt many netizens of cyberspace were surprised to hear this week that the World Wide Web is on death's doorstep while the Internet is alive and w...
Article | 17/08/2010
Google/Verizon: Will a parallel non-Internet help?
In spite of the fact that the net neutrality proposal that Google and Verizon published on Aug. 9 was not much like what the rumor mill predicted as l...
Article | 4/08/2010
What would it take to unseat Conroy?
It's safe to say that Senator Stephen Conroy, the federal communications minister, has upset a lot of people in the IT community with his push for man...
Article | 29/07/2010
Wi-Fi WPA2 vulnerability FAQ
So this guy at AirTight Networks says Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 has a "hard shell on the outside, but a soft underbelly inside"due to an overlooked vul...
Article | 26/07/2010
Four ways IPv6 will save the Internet
The world is almost out of IP addresses--or at least it's almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunatel...
Article | 12/07/2010
Opinion: Conroy's temporary filter all Australia needs
On Friday, three of Australia's largest internet service providers simultaneously announced they would filter some internet content from ever reaching...
Article | 8/07/2010
Cisco's Cius business tablet: A visual tour
Cisco gets down to business with its Cius business tablet that will let you perform video conferencing and is optimized for apps such as WebEx Meeting...
Article | 16/06/2010
Best post-paid mobile broadband deals
Shopping for mobile broadband can be an arduous task — with so many plans, pricing and data offers, it can quickly become a confusing task. We'v...
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