Senate debate on legislation concerning access arrangements under the National Broadband Network (NBN) could continue over the weekend as the Federal Government sought to push through bills before a six-week break for Parliament.
Optus has warned amendments proposed to National Broadband Network (NBN) legislation proposed by communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, last night would be a step backwards for the telecommunications industry.
Despite increases in the number and capability of botnets for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, social engineering remains one of the largest cyber security threats to IT infrastructure according to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
Regional pay television operator, Austar (ASX:AUN), is developing a cross-platform user interface that could aggregate and beam content to multiple devices simultaneously, in an effort to maintain the company’s viability under the National Broadband Network (NBN).
A Queensland data recovery technician has been found guilty of infringing Microsoft’s ‘Windows’ copyright by the Federal Court.
Though self-admittedly lagging on a trend most universities completed in the past few years, RMIT in Melbourne has committed to migrating its student and staff email accounts to a hosted solution.
CSIRO’s hopes of commercialising its Ngara fixed wireless broadband technology for use in the National Broadband Network (NBN) may be hampered by radio spectrum recently purchased by the network wholesaler, researchers have warned.
Queensland treasurer, Andrew Fraser, has pledged not to dictate specific cuts or targets for government ICT activities, despite a floundering economy in the face of recent natural disasters striking the state.
Networking vendor, Cisco, has cancelled a regularly scheduled security advisory update for users of IOS software on the company’s routers and switches, citing recent events in Japan.
Internet service providers are awaiting the final link between new fibre backhaul in regional South Australia and Telstra exchanges in order to provide competitive ADSL services in Victor Harbor and surrounding towns.
Ballarat City Council is actively considering deploying fibre at new developments in the growing regional town in order to avoid “shoe-horning” fast broadband access during the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Recently listed data centre provider, NextDC (ASX:NXT), has initiated a trading halt on the stock exchange pending at the beginning of a capital-raising round from the company.
Fibre backhaul provider, Nextgen Networks, has completed the second link in as many weeks of the Federal Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP), with the 129 kilometre link in South Australia going live.
Following a wave of migration to Cloud-based email systems for students and staff, Australian universities are preparing for the next migration trend, outsourcing instances of the popular Blackboard student resources portal to the vendor’s own servers.
The Australian Government’s lead procurement agency to soon announce preferred vendors for a number of tenders forming part of the government’s 15-year data centre strategy in an attempt to progress from interim arrangements.