Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy in it up to Their Eyeballs
Herald Sun
KEVIN Rudd and Stephen Conroy’s $250 million gift to Kerry Stokes and the other TV moguls is outrageous and totally unacceptable. Except of course, all too readily by them.
Topics: Adelaide, Australia, carrier, Google, Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy, Sydney, telecom
Melbourne Home To New Infosys Datacentre
ZDNet, Australia
The Victorian Government has revealed that Indian IT services company Infosys has opened a new datacentre in the state capital, just as other companies lay out expansion plans for the state.
Topics: Asia, Australia, employees, Google, government, Infosys, jobs, Melbourne, reseller, security, Victoria
AAPT Launches Unlimited Broadband: Better Deals on the Way?
iTWire
AAPT has set the cat amongst the pigeons with its new offer of a “truly unlimited” broadband offering, promising no caps and no throttling, but instead of unleashing a torrent of competition, the early stance from other ISPs is one of “wait and see”. Should consumers do the same?
Topics: AAPT, ADSL, ADSL2, Asia, Australia, [...]
Queensland 000 Systems Goes Down
ZDNet, Australia
Triple-zero operators in Queensland were reduced to using pen and paper to log emergency calls after a state-wide computer system failure.
Maintenance had been scheduled from midnight to 4am but technicians could not get the system back online until 9am after failing to reboot the system.
Topics: Australia, Brisbane, Google, government, ISP, jobs, outage, QLD, [...]
Australia May Be Home To New Google Datacentre
ZDNet, Australia
Google has refused to rule out constructing an Australian datacentre amid what analysts and partners say is “intense” interest from large Australian organisations in the search giant’s cloud computing Apps suite.
Topics: Australia, Google, government, hosting, Telstra
Telstra Must Rethink Its NBN Strategy
Business Spectator
The NBN will take eight years to build and will then be one-tenth of the speed of Google’s network, or 100 megabits per second – what seemed a year ago to be blindingly, impossibly fast. And before they start work on the NBN, tortuous negotiations with Telstra have to be finished.
Topics: Australia, Google, [...]
Thodey Cancels Trip, Tries To Salvage Government Deal
The Australian
TELSTRA chief executive David Thodey has cancelled a trip to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to instead concentrate on discussions with the government about the telco’s role in the national broadband network and returning the business to top-line growth.
Topics: Australia, BigPond, David Thodey, Google, NBN, Sydney, telecom, Telstra
Telstra, Google In Fibre Discussions
ZDNet, Australia
Telstra revealed today that it had held discussions with Google’s Australian management about the search giant’s plans, announced overnight, to provide half a million US residents with fibre broadband in a US trial.
Topics: Australia, broadband, Google, Telstra
Australia’s Seven Announces $14m Broadband Play
The Australian
THE Seven Network has announced $14 million plans to roll out its Vividwireless broadband network into the five mainland capital cities in yet another sign that the media group will pursue growth opportunities outside its traditional television business.
Topics: 4G, Australia, broadband, carrier, Google, networking, Sydney, telecom, Telstra, WiMax, wireless
Bolton’s Bottle Being Sued for $2.6 Million
Sydney Morning Herald
According to a website that has sprung up to track Alla’s business deals, the men behind the company have racked up debts to Optus, Primus and NEC via third-party intermediaries such as Bottle Infrastructure.
Topics: Australia, Google, Optus, Primus, Sydney, telecom
Google Developing Babelfish Phone
The Australian
GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly — like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Topics: Australia, broadband, Google, telecom, telecommunications
