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The Productivity Commission's finding that NBN Co's business model is potentially in breach of the federal government's own competition policy underlines the need for a cost-benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network, Business Council of Australia Chief Executive Jennifer Westacott said.

NBN Co's continued refusal to ensure regulatory oversights on contracts it offers to telcos prevent the latter from reaching deals with the company tasked to manage to nationwide roll out of the $36 billion National Broadband Network.

Korea's Samsung had won the first legal battle against Apple Inc. as an Australian court overturns the decision disallowing the sale of the Galaxy tablet in the country on Wednesday.

In reading the biography of "Steve Jobs" written by Walter Isaacson one gets to grasp the man is no god, he was quite human in all aspects that some readers would actually be disappointed of the truths revealed.

A coalition of five major Australian service providers has released a proposal for dealing with Internet piracy which would see ISPs warning customers if they had breached copyrights online.

Black Friday in the U.S. means a lot of human traffic due to the number of people taking advantage of certain deals in different stores. Stores are definitely interested to find out which stores have more human traffic and which attracts more customers.

The Australian Securities Exchange allowed Internet service provider iiNet (ASX: IIN) to voluntarily suspend on Friday trading of its shares pending a buy-in.

Australian telecom giant Telstra (ASX: TLS) announced on Friday the launch of its Digital Media Division.

Full competition in the telecom industry has resulted in almost 50 per cent drop in average mobile voice price, a report released on Friday said.

Two smartphones. Two different OS. Both their names are widely known. To find out which will win in the specs duel between Motorola Droid RAZR under the Android side and HTC Radar for Windows Phone, a comparison is provided below.

The widespread availability of digital television has changed the viewing habits of Australians. According to the Roy Morgan Single Source report, 58 per cent of Aussies aged 14 years old and above are watching digital TV channels.

More choices would be available for Australians who would subscribe to broadband services under the National Broadband Network (NBN).

After Vodafone Hutchinson Australia logged a 222 per cent jump in complaints before the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman for the year with 55,600 complaints, the company announced on Thursday that it will put in place measures to improve service.

The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman received for the year about 198,000 complaints against telecommunication firms in Australia. The complaints were up by almost 25,000 from the previous year's 168,000.

The destructive floods in Bangkok and Thailand's northern provinces have disrupted global supply chains as major production hubs for electronic supplies and automotive parts are now submerged.

Arianespace will launch its sixth satellite for Optus by 2013 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The rocket will launch from Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, Paul O'Sullivan, Optus Chief Executive, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, announced in Sydney, Australia.

A TV deal between Nine Network and the parents of the 14-year-old boy on trial in Bali, Indonesia for buying marijuana was cancelled on Sunday.

Apple Inc. is known for its revolutionary and innovative products. But that doesn't mean that devices meticulously designed by the top-notch engineers at Apple are free of any issues.

The ongoing legal battle between Samsung Electronics and Apple for a larger share of the Australian techie market escalated further on Tuesday after the South Korean firm sought a look into Apple's deals with major Australian telcos.

Comparison Web site WhistleOut backed the Labor government's claim that Australians would benefit from using the National Broadband Network (NBN) than current ADSL 2+ and line rental plans.

Celina Aarons of Florida got the shock of her life when she received a $201,005.44 phone bill from T-Mobile. Her average phone bill is only $175.

Telstra has told shareholders the company will consider a share buyback after approval and implementation of the deal with NBN Co.

Shareholders of Telstra have agreed and voted in favor of the $11 billion deal with the Australian government, allowing Telstra's fixed-line dominance be used by the NBN Company.

Australia's central bank has hinted that benchmark cash rates in the country may go down after months of being held at 4.75 percent.

Australian customers lined up around Apple stores and other retailers Friday to get the new Apple iPhone 4S, but for budget-conscious consumers, the new smartphone could be too much for their wallets to handle.

High-tech devices outnumber people in the United States, the industry group CTIA reported Tuesday. Wireless subscriber connections reached 327.6 million, surpassing for the first time the U.S. population of 315.5 million.

Apple Inc. is launching the iMessage on Wednesday that will allow users of devices running on the company's mobile operating system to chat SMS-style for free and without limit.

BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India could not email, send instant message and surf the web on Monday.

Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S reached one million on Friday breaking the record first-day sale set by the iPhone 4 last year.