Accenture and Telstra Enterprise and Government have forged a partnership to offer enterprise and government clients cloud computing services and facilities. Telstra's data centres will host client applications in a virtualized environment. Client applications will also be delivered through the IP network infrastucture of Telstra.
Telstra has launched its Ultimate USB mobile device to small and medium businesses in Australia. The device, which promises to deliver speeds that is twice as fast as its NextG USB modems, offers download speeds between 1.1Mbps to 20Mbps.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is urging the Opposition to not delay the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill 2010, or Competition and Safeguards Bill, introduced to Parliament yesterday, warning that "every day of delay for these reforms is a day of higher prices and less choices."
Apple launched an all new MacBook Air, the first of a next generation of notebooks. The all new MacBook Air will replace mechanical hard disks and optical drives with Internet services and solid state flash storage.
Microsoft Australia launched Office 365 today. Dubbed as Microsoft's next generation software in cloud productivity, Office 365 aims to bring together Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync online in a cloud service.
The latest tirades from Steve Jobs in defense of iPad's less than stellar performance has set off an intensified tablet war between Apple, Google, Research in Motion (RIM), and Samsung, add Twitter to the mix.
Electronic Arts (EA) announced that the Stephen Spielberg-created Medal of Honor video games claimed the #1 chart position in the United Kingdom.
Police in Australia, working an internet bullying case, used Facebook to serve an order on an alleged perpetrator.
Zynga has been accused in a class-action lawsuit of sharing personal information belonging to users of the social networking site Facebook. The company, which is a partner of Facebook and makes social-games, has been accused of purposefully sharing the data.
The profits from mobile phone-maker Nokia Ovj may be the smallest in recent history for the company in its third quarter. The change, estimated to reflect the smallest profits since 2001, may reflect delays in products and price competition.
US Congressmen have demanded an explanation from Facebook over violations of the social networking Web site's privacy rules. It was revealed earlier that applications within Facebook released user information to web tracking companies.
Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie posted a message on his company's blog to answer comments made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
An independent broadband comparison Web site said that broadband speeds in Australia have become 20 percent faster over the past eight months. Internet speeds in the country now come to about 4.2 Megabits per second (Mbps) downstream; the figures show an increase of 0.7 Mbps.
Facebook issued another acknowledgement regarding data privacy after it was revealed that certain applications on the social networking site improperly shared user data
Microsoft announced that data breaches that cause personal data to be compromised have been reduced to half of earlier figures from 2009.
Owners of iPhones in Australia will now have more freedom to use their phones with other networks. In its Exchange blog, telecommunications company Telstra said that that it would no longer charge customers to unlock the devices from its network.
Web sites from Google get more hits from Australian residents than any other brand online. The company, which even beat out Facebook, had about an average of 12.7 million unique users logging on to its Web sites every month.
BlizzCon 2010 Gaming Convention celebrating the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo game universes and their global player communities will on Friday (October 22) at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
According to SquareTrade, a company that provides extended warranties for iPhones, the iPhone 4 from Apple is "significantly more prone to physical damage" than the iPhone 3GS released last year.
Telstra announced the release of its Big Pond Ultimate USB, which has been made available to consumers. The service provides users with very fast speeds for surfing the Internet and downloading files.
Foxtel releases the pricing plan and availability for its Xbox 360 package. The service, which offers Pay IPTV, starts at $20 a month with the "Get Started" package.
Twitter made a step toward securing users' privacy by limiting the ability of a celebrity-tracking company, JustSpotted, to access certain "tweets" that the company could use to map the location of celebrities in real time.
Apple comes out with a 2.0.1 upgrade a few weeks after the company overhauled its Remote application for iOS devices
Almost half of all working Australians are spending more time doing business outside the workplace than they were five years ago and they're attributing that to better technology and increased flexibility of employers, according to a Telstra survey.
The new World of Warcraft: Cataclysm trailer had been released by Blizzard Entertainment.
Valve Software, the creator of popular game titles such as Half Life, Counter Strike, Portal, Left for Dead and Fortress, announced that that DotA 2 will be released on the PC and Mac next year. DotA 2, which takes its name from a fan-made Warcraft III mod called Defense of the Ancients, claims to expand on the combination of RTS and RPG gaming that proven to be popular among its followers.
In what is starting to become an annual event, Honda was named as the "Greenest Automaker" by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
A new World of Warcraft: Cataclysm commercial will be debuting on Monday morning (AEDT)
The Apple Store Charlestown will have its grand opening on Thursday, 21 October, 2010 at 5.00 p.m. AEST.
Verizon Wireless and rival AT&T, the top two mobile carriers in the U.S., announced Thursday they will start selling Apple iPads at their respective stores nationwide on Oct. 28 even as Apple Inc. tries to fend off competition from other tablet makers.
