TECHNOLOGY

The federal government has expressed confidence that Telstra would eventually become a partner for its national broadband network project which should reduce its mammoth cost once the rollout begins.

According to ABC Online, Telstra articulated that customers who are feeling financially hurt by yesterday’s technical trouble in Queensland may lodge their claims for compensation.

A criminal charge has been put on a man who ostensibly recorded videos of users using his toilet. The camera was found by one of the victims.

The $25 million study on the national broadband network commissioned by the federal government has revealed on Thursday that the project is doable within the allocated $43 billion budget and should be up and running within its eight year time frame.

Mobile company Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has announced Thursday that it has acquired the services of Nokia Siemens Network to run the company’s network operations which covers equipment supply and service management.

The SAP (System Applications and Products) Company has now set off a new software-as-a-service proffering in Australia.

Telstra has made it firm that its Next G mobile network has been going through an outage in Queensland early today; however it said that the problems are expected to be entirely resolved by lunchtime.

According to InformationWeek, the iDefense division of Verisign told The New York Times that cybercriminals are selling huge lots of stolen and fake Facebook accounts enticed by the openness and amount of user information in their accounts.

The federal government reaches an agreement with Telstra for telco to shift network traffic to the national broadband network (NBN) worth $43 billion.

Two new notebooks have been launched in Australia by Dell: the Inspirion 15R and Inspirion 17R. Both will be made available in stores across the United States as well.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is upbeat that its stellar performance since the company’s formation in June 2009 will be sustained down the line in 2010, as the country’s third largest telco announced on Tuesday that it has started working on long-term branding and network strategies.

Apple brags of selling more than one million iPads in approximately 28 days since being introduced on the 3rd of April. Contrasting to that, iPhone took almost three months to hit the one million sales markets after being launched.

The users of jail broken iPhones with the new MyWi application allows them to be used as 3G modems with Apple's new iPad tablet.

Opera Software, a Norwegian company, has purchased the Melbourne-based email provider FastMail.fm for an unrevealed sum. According to ARN Net, Opera said in a statement that the asset expands its current messaging product collection and deliver cross-platform messaging to a broad range of devices, which includes mobile phones, computers, gaming consoles, and televisions.

Telstra announced an amendment to the mobile post-data packages of their consumer, reducing prices across the board and bringing in more alternatives behind the success of the HTC Desire phone device.

The Nasa balloon that carries a multimillion dollar telescope obliterated a car in Alice Springs, Australia, after failing to launch properly.

Groggle.com.au is a soon-to-be-launched Australian liquor price comparison website. Google had presented the website owners a desist letter demanding them to stop using the brand earlier this month.

According to Computerworld, a Peoplebank recruitment firm’s salary survey showed that the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) workers of Perth were given the highest pay rises in the first quarter of 2010.

Optus has introduced a push of new broadband plans aimed at heavy data usage customers. I has refreshed its range of Fusion bundled broadband plans and Naked DSL plans.

China has announced on Tuesday that it is set to require telecom operators and internet service providers to report and cooperate with state security officers on possible leak of state secrets, as the country moves further to tighten its grip on communication facilities and discourage political dissent.

An iPhone is usually least expected to be seen on a construction site but a Sydney builder is on tenterhooks to change that with the built-for-purpose Tradie’s Application.

Just after the theft of one of the prototype of iPhone 4G, a pair of enigmatic iPod Touches known as DVT-1 and DVT-2 appeared on an online auction site eBay.

Opposition senators have called on the federal government to release the $25 million study on the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN), which has been touted by the government as Australia’s largest infrastructure undertaking to date.

The e-waste rubbish pile of Australia increases at three times the rate of regular domestic waste and there are about 168 million e-waste items dumped in the landfill.

A website that lists 1.5 million compromised Facebook accounts for sale has been discovered by iDefense Labs of Verisign. Each 1,000 accounts with not more than 10 friends are for sale for $25 and $45 for 1,000 accounts for those with more than 10 friends.

As National Broadband Networks (NBN) tries to deliver a broadband speed of 100Mbps over a planned $43 billion dollar fibre network with great effort and tussle, Alcatel-Lucent announced that Bell Labs, Alcatel's research arm, successfully demonstrated downstream VDSL2 speed of up to 300Mbps covering distances up to 400 meters using DSL Phantom Mode technology instead of a copper wire network comparable to what Telstra has connected to most businesses and homes in Australia.

A Japanese spacecraft will be landing on the test range of Woomera in the outback of South Australia in June.

The released copyright treaty may change the way internet providers of Australia deal with pirates.

Telstra has announced plans to impose an additional 20 cents charge on competitors accessing the company’s copper network, and raising the possibility that consumers will soon foot much higher internet and phone bills.