The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking action against mobile services provider, EDirect Pty Ltd, for allegedly, via telemarketing, entering into mobile phone contracts with customers who provided addresses in areas in which EDirect couldn’t supply its services due to lack of mobile coverage.
The 2011 ARN IT Industry Awards will feature a new category, telecommunications, with four awards.
Cloud computing - it's inescapable. Everybody wants to either get on the Cloud, offer a Cloud solution, embrace the Cloud or question the Cloud. HP, Microsoft, Cisco, you name the IT giant, it's offering the Cloud.
Optus will add a new satellite, Optus 10, to it’s A/NZ fleet making it the largest in the company’s and Australia’s history.
Creditors of software specialist distributor, Manaccom, have accepted the Company’s Deed Of Company Arrangement (DoCA) and it will be closed in the near future.
As the 2010 election entered the last days of campaigning it became more and more apparent that the National Broadband Network (NBN) had, quite remarkably, become a key issue in a lead-up that veered close to being one of the more boring in recent history.
Australia faces a period of political instability after voters turned on the Gillard government but the fall of seats meant neither major party had a majority and independents will have the balance of power in the house.
Avnet Technology Solutions (Australia) will acquire value-added distributor of software, hardware and services, itX Group Limited (itX), in an all cash merger valued at $77.5 million through a scheme of arrangement under Australian law. The deal doubles Avnet's presence in Australia.
In science, parsimony is preference for the least complex explanation for an observation. Applied to the current election campaign, the NBN, filter and tech, it probably is as simple as: Abbott is incredibly ignorant; Smith is faking it, badly; Robb is faking it, better; Conroy acts, and acts, and acts; Gillard is probably less ignorant than Abbott, but only slightly; Quigley has knowledge - but would you trust him?.
What a week it was. Channel 10 may be considering canning the reality TV show <i>So You Think You Can Dance</i> but our polis and associated employees showed they can put on a show of their own.
We've run one commentary in the past week in which senior political commentators, Antony Green, and Nick Economou, declared the majority of Australians don't care about the much-debated and - so-we-thought - hated Internet filter.
