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More than 4000 passengers have been left stranded at Melbourne Airport after a computer breakdown forced the cancellation of 47 Virgin Blue flights and delayed dozens more.

Telstra Corporation has released a series of new broadband plans as the telco aims to sharpen its offerings in the ultra competitive sector. Telstra chief executive, David Thodey, had flagged the changed at a company investor day in October.

iPhone users will be the first to gain access to a new video streaming service running over Telstra’s NextG network.

Telstra (ASX:TLS) has described a proposed bill to separate the telco's business operations as "unnecessary" in a submission to a Senate inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009.

The Australian Competition Tribunal has announced it will grant regulation exemptions for Telstra's wholesale voice services in metropolitan areas, but questions remain over whether consumers will gain better access to services.

This week's fault that knocked out Internet access for thousands of Telstra BigPond customers was most likely related to the ISPs domain name system (DNS), according to people affected by the outage.

Telstra is to begin offering a bundle of Microsoft’s business applications, under the name of Microsoft Online Services, on its software service platform, T-Suite.

Microsoft has dipped its toe a little further in to the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) world by making its online services available through Telstra's T-Suite platform.

Telstra has launched a research and development program — and is calling for applications. The External Research and Development Program aims to strengthen the company’s link with researchers and developers across Australia.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued draft pricing principles and indicative prices for six fixed line wholesale services, which allow Telstra competitors to provide fixed voice and broadband services over Telstra’s copper network.

Telstra has added three Acer notebooks with built-in mobile broadband to [[xref:http://www.techworld.com.au/tag/nextg|its Next G device|TechWorld :: Next G]] range.

Telstra’s stake in the Foxtel pay television network has been a major inhibitor to the growth of broadband in Australia according to John Porter, CEO at pay television provider Austar.

Telstra has been flexing its next generation muscles in a trial which could speed up the telco's existing network infrastructure between capital cities.

Telstra has extended a 10-year agreement to provide services to the Bank of Queensland in a $21 million, three-year deal.