Stories by Andrew Hendry

ICT industry unites to provide bushfire victims with new PCs, services

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is working with the support of Computers Off Australia and the Australian Computer Society (ACS) to provide free, fully operational computers to families and small businesses devastated by the Victorian bushfires.

By Andrew Hendry | 13 February, 2009 08:34

Tags: AIIA

Internet filtering pilot announced: Six ISPs on board

Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has announced six ISPs will participate in the first phase of the Federal Government’s controversial plan to introduce mandatory filtering of Australia’s Internet feed.

By Andrew Hendry | 12 February, 2009 12:32

Tags: mandatory internet fitering

Gartner: Sun will shine after 2009 doom and gloom

The sun will shine again after this year's doom and gloom, according to Gartner's 2009 CIO Agenda survey.

By Andrew Hendry | 09 February, 2009 08:46

Tags: Gartner

Telstra workers announce five days of rolling stoppages

The Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) has advised Telstra customers that services could potentially be disrupted from the weekend onwards due to five days of rolling stoppages.

By Andrew Hendry | 06 February, 2009 10:50

Tags: Telstra

Telstra, Optus and Hutchison in access disputes

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has received five access dispute notifications, four of which are between Optus and Telstra.

By Andrew Hendry | 05 February, 2009 10:15

Tags: accc, hutchinson, optus, Telstra

Senate passes motion to publicise ACCC, expert panel reports on NBN

The Senate has passed a motion that will see reports on the NBN bid by the ACCC and the expert panel made public the day after the winning bid is announced.

By Andrew Hendry | 05 February, 2009 09:06

Tags: NBN

New $220m Polaris datacentre unlikely to suffer Melbourne blackout fate

The master planner behind the new Polaris datacentre in Queensland has cited key differences in its redundancy model that would prevent the kind of total power failure that left a Melbourne datacentre in the dark, this week.

By Andrew Hendry | 03 February, 2009 16:26

Tags: metronode, polaris, NEC

Major Melbourne datacentre suffers complete power failure

An iPrimus datacentre in King St, Melbourne, suffered a complete power outage on Sunday, including failure of the emergency diesel backup system.

By Andrew Hendry | 02 February, 2009 13:54

Tags: datacentre

NBN expert panel info: Please sir, can I have some more?

The government’s decision to veil recommendations made by the National Broadband Network (NBN) expert panel from public scrutiny has garnered mixed opinions from the telco industry.

By Andrew Hendry | 27 January, 2009 15:59

Tags: national broadband network, NBN

NBN: Analysts, industry divided on consortium speculation

Speculation that bidders for the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender may be asked to form a consortium has met varied opinions from analysts and telco players.

By Andrew Hendry | 23 January, 2009 15:58

Tags: NBN

IDC’s top 10 telco predictions for 2009

Analyst firm IDC has predicted Australia’s telecommunications industry will enjoy sustained growth of 3-4 per cent in 2009, despite the economic downturn.

By Andrew Hendry | 27 January, 2009 06:52

Tags: IDC

Report: Australian broadband performance on the rise

Australian Internet surfers enjoyed significant improvements in performance during the last quarter of 2008, according to new international research.

By Andrew Hendry | 19 January, 2009 13:58

Tags: eptiro report, broadband

ACMA hits Optus with $110,000 fine for Spam Act breach

Optus has paid the second highest penalty to date for alleged breaches of Australia’s spam legislation.

By Andrew Hendry | 14 January, 2009 15:28

Tags: optus

Panasonic announces price hikes from 8-22 per cent

Panasonic Australia will raise prices on its current range of consumer electronics products from February 1.

By Andrew Hendry | 14 January, 2009 12:06

Tags: Panasonic, price rise

Federal, state and local Governments set national broadband priorities

Australian Governments of all levels have jointly released a framework to accelerate the development and use of broadband in Australia to ensure the country remains domestically and internationally competitive.

By Andrew Hendry | 12 December, 2008 17:09

Tags: broadband

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