With the aim of eventually eradicating pirated copies of its software, Adobe has introduced an updated version of its Photoshop application featuring digital rights management (DRM) technology into the Australian market.
Gamers get ready! The war is about to begin. As Xbox and PlayStation 2 face-off to become the dominant online rig, gamers should be the ultimate winners. Nadia Cameron reports.
Up to 50 per cent of existing Wi-Fi operators will fail within the next two years as the market undergoes a massive “shakeout”, according to an Australian telco analyst.
Throwing its weight behind the increasingly popular wireless broadband movement, Telstra launched its first national Wi-Fi service in Sydney on Wednesday. The telco's announcement comes on the back of the Wireless Broadband Alliance's decision to commence trials of a standardised wireless roaming service in the Asia-Pacific region using services from four of its members, including Telstra.
Open source software has gained another foothold in the business PC market following Acer’s announcement that it will begin offering the Linux operating system across a select range of its commercial desktop platforms.
Labor has accused Telstra of employing standover tactics against consumers wishing to change from its broadband service to those provided by other ISPs across its wholesale network.
A new survey to be released by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) this week paints a sober portrait of the ICT sector for contractors, reporting many independent IT workers are being forced to cut their hourly rates to match tougher competition in an increasingly harsher industry.
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsmen (TIO) is warning broadband users to beware of file sharing software and to be mindful of their usage download limits, following an increase in the number of complaints across broadband Internet services.
Telecoms equipment vendor Marconi has unveiled a new broadband test centre in Sydney, the first of its kind to be based in Australia and the second broadband research facility launched by the company worldwide.
Telstra has labelled as “ridiculous” Senator Kate Lundy’s comments that the telco’s dated infrastructure is preventing the uptake of ADSL in Australia.
Following hot on the heels of competitor Optus, Telstra has announced it has signed up its 100,000th cable broadband customer to the BigPond network.
Automatic software security measures can ensure malicious executable and program files such as that in the latest W32/Palyh-A e-mail worm do not make it into users' inboxes, a security expert claims.
Harris Technology has already made a name for itself as one of Australia’s most prevalent IT fulfillment organisations for SME businesses. But with its latest plans for increasing its share of IT procurement services and a new business centre in Canberra, the company is also hoping for a slice of the large enterprises and government markets pie.
Asserting its commitment to signing up one million broadband subscribers by 2005, Telstra has announced that it has now almost 313,000 broadband subscribers across its cable, ADSL, satellite and wholesale networks.
Bundled telecommunications services present a significant threat to the future of competition within the industry, and could cause irreparable harm to new and emerging convergence business models between telco and media content providers, according to industry representatives.
