Stories by: Mitchell Bingemann

Apple Australia's iTunes store is going DRM free with the launch of iTunes Plus, a new and better quality song format that frees users to play music on portable players other than Apple's iPod.

Voice and data provider, Telarus, is ramping up local sales operations with the appointment of three new staff, the construction of a new Network Operations Centre (NOC) and migration of its Sydney core network to an Equinix datacentre.

After slamming the OECD's findings on global broadband rankings as inaccurate, and accusing the Labor party of misleading the Australian public on its broadband adoption, IT minister, Senator Helen Coonan, may have some pie to clean from her face after an OECD spokesperson claimed the Minister's department had been directly involved in the formulation of the findings she was criticising.

Effective today, Gartner's consulting operations in Australia and Hong Kong will cease to be, according to a leaked email to IDG.

IP communications vendor, Mitel, has appointed Essential Data & Voice as its third Australian Platinum Solution Provider partner.

Mobility services provider, O4 Corporation, has appointed Shirley Jackson as its new Asia-Pacific sales director where she will be responsible for driving sales through a global partnering scheme.

NetApp's disk-based storage division, StoreVault, is teaming up with US-based Azaleos to produce an all-in-one product for SMB storage needs.

Telstra has flicked the switch on a new $1.5 billion IP network that the telco says not only homogenises its disparate networking core, but is also the largest of its kind in the world.

In what could be either the best or worst news for student productivity, uni students at three Australian campuses are getting online thanks to a dedicated wireless network from BigAir and Star-Tech Communications.

After only 18 months in the wireless game, Adelaide-based ISP, Chariot, is looking to sell off its wireless division, Omninet.

The CSIRO is laying claim to developing the world's best breed of 200GHz millimetre-wave (mm-wave) amplifier and mixer chips that double wireless data transfer rates, while being more cost and power efficient than current wireless chips.