…savings to commence on October 5 (originally DST was slated to start on October 26). The change brought havoc for thousands of mobile phone users whose handsets overrode network settings to update the phone time. Customers afflicted by the change found themselves up for work an hour early…. just what…
Sydney will get Australia’s first, free-to-air, non-commercial, digital TV channel. The National Indigenous Television service will launch in Sydney today, becoming the first free-to-air digital service not created by a commercial or public TV network. Rather than mirroring what’s already screened on analogue TV, NITV will showcase new content, including…
The National Broadband Network has suffered another delay to the point where analysts believe the NBN process is guaranteed to fail. The deadline for bids for the National Broadband Network, or NBN, has been pushed back to November 26. After the deadline, a government-approved panel will consider the proposals for…
A Queenslander is facing charges in America after being named as part of the world’s biggest spamming network. Lance Atkinson, 26, from Pelican Waters in the Sunshine Coast, has been named by the United States Federal Trade Commission in connection to a spamming operation. The email spam marketed herbal and…
…network is built using optic fibre links. Each node on the network contains sensitive light detectors, which identify the photons – atoms of light – sent and translate them into a numerical key to decode data just like a normal computer network. Roughly a million photons a second was sent…
New software can detect whether or not you’re using your mobile phone in your car, and will ask the mobile network to hold all your calls and messages until you stop driving. A Canadian company has developed software that will detect the speed that a cell phone is moving. If…
…of sponsor logos during the introduction of nominated artists, showing Chupa Chups, Big W, Olay, Telstra Bigpond, KFC and Toyota. The Australian Communications and Media Authority found the free-to-air channel guilty of breaching the Commerical Television Industry Code of Practice, but issued the network with a warning. “ACMA considers this…
…the Bold. Currently Vodafone customers can get the Blackberry Bold on Vodafone for $119 per month (including network costs) on a 24month plan. Hamid Fardhoust, Vodafone Australia Device Portfolio Manager, said.”The Storm will be cheaper than the Bold when it launches.” Vodafone is currently accepting pre-bookings for the device on…
Prepaid iPhone users on the Optus network should prepare themselves for a change that could empty their wallet faster than you can say “YouTube”. UPDATED: We got in contact with Optus and a spokesperson from Optus said: Optus would like to clarify it is not charging in 500 kilobyte increments….
…and sporting institutes around Australia. Jason Gulbin, manager of the NTID, said bringing universities into the sporting network would capture talent from regional areas and from Greater Western Sydney. “We needed a way to access those who might be in sporting clubs outside the metropolitan system,” he said. “In the…
…installed throughout its Australia and New Zealand network within a year. According to Angus and Robertson, the first book printed in the Melbourne store was the Miles Franklin award winning novel, A Horse Of Air by Dal Stevens, which has been out of print for nearly 20 years. Source: SMH…
…brought Optus’ ability to deliver the National Broadband Network in question. “This disaster really begs the question how anyone could risk something as important as Australia’s broadband future to an operation that cannot get its basic wireless network to work effectively,” said Qulity. Source: The Australian Additional Material: iTnews Australia…