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  IN PICTURES: Your channel round-up, w/e May 17 (+ 20 ...
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  IN PICTURES: National Digital Economy Strategy - page by page
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  In Pictures: NBN rolls into Armidale

• IN PICTURES: Your channel round-up, w/e May 17 (+ 20 photos)

  By Hafizah Osman | 13 May, 2013 14:13

  ARN's Community Manager, Hafizah Osman, has disappeared under a flood of community picture stories and reports of company events, so we thought what better to do than put them all in a slideshow summing up the week in the channel. This week features company awards and partner events amongst others. Are you pictured?

• Optus adds new broadband and voice plans

  By Hafizah Osman | 13 May, 2013 10:28

  Optus has unveiled a new range of fixed line broadband and voice plans

• Inmarsat acquires TC Comms ahead of global broadband launch

  By Nermin Bajric | 10 May, 2013 09:00

  British satellite telecommunications solutions provider, Inmarsat, has acquired Auburn (Sydney) based specialist company, TC Communications.

• New Zealand one of Huawei’s key strategic markets, says CEO

  By Hafizah Osman | 09 May, 2013 12:31

  ICT solutions vendor, Huawei will be focusing on New Zealand as it is one of its most important strategic markets, according to its CEO, Ren Zhengfei.

• Conroy and Turnbull lock horns over NBN

  By Hafizah Osman | 06 May, 2013 12:24

  Minister for broadband and communications, Stephen Conroy, and coalition communications spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, have spelled out their differences over the NBN issues in an online forum, Communications Debate.

• 1.35 million premises added to NBN construction timetable

  By Mike Gee | 06 May, 2013 09:53

  NBN Co has unveiled the names of the communities that are next in line to receive high-speed fibre optic broadband.

• Qualcomm calls for shared in-home cells to handle mobile demand

  By Stephen Lawson | 30 April, 2013 21:59

  Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday.

• Senators shred coalition $90bn broadband claims

  By Hafizah Osman | 19 April, 2013 15:27

  Minister for finance and deregulation, Senator Penny Wong, and minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, have slammed the assumptions underpinning the Coalition’s costing of Labor’s NBN.

• ISP Q&A: TransACT's Ivan Slavich on networks, the NBN and more

  By Spandas Lui | 24 June, 2011 21:45

  The Federal Government’s $36 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) aspires to be an open-access network which will eventually level the playing-field in the broadband market for ISPs nationwide.

  But one company already has its own open-access network, albeit on a smaller scale.

  TransACT began its life in the 2000 and has strong ties with the main utility services supplier in ACT, ActewAGL. Its origins stemmed from the fact Telstra and Optus left Canberra out of their HFC broadband network footprint.

• What Obama's re-election may mean for technology

  By Grant Gross | 07 November, 2012 19:06

  The US presidential election result leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress. In many longstanding technology debates, policy experts see little movement forward, although lawmakers may look for compromises on a handful of issues.

• NEWS FEATURE: The Digital Economy Strategy - a roadmap to where?

  By Spandas Lui | 04 July, 2011 15:43

  The Digital Economy Strategy, recently announced at ceBIT Australia 2011, has been warmly received by the industry. But analysts are less certain of the strategy.

• IT in 2011: Four trends that will change priorities

  By Shane O'Neill | 06 January, 2011 05:16

  It's always a challenge for IT departments to anticipate how corporate technical demands will evolve, especially when IT budgets have been as tight as a drum for two years.

• Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 December, 2010 03:14

  A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year.

• Google Chrome 5 Beta: The top five features

  By Ian Paul | 06 May, 2010 02:39

  Google recently launched the beta version of Google Chrome 5, the next iteration of the search giant's Web browser. New features include HTML 5 specifications like Geolocation and file drag-and-drop; expanded cloud sync capabilities; Flash integration; and JavaScript engine speed boosts.

• Google's big fiber play: What gives?

  By Ian Paul | 12 February, 2010 10:14

  Google on Wednesday announced that it wants to "build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States." Google's proposed networks would service anywhere from 50,000 to 500,000 people with commercial broadband Internet service reaching speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second.

• Facebook tracks your every move, employee claims

  By Ian Paul | 13 January, 2010 02:45

  Facebook is tracking your every move on the site -- or so says one purported Facebook employee, according to an anonymous interview with the Rumpus. In the interview, the Facebook employee, whose identity was protected so she wouldn't lose her job for talking to the media, also said that Facebook employees have relatively easy access to user accounts.

• Study: US sees 'broadband boom' this decade

  By Grant Gross | 25 June, 2009 02:56

  The U.S. government should avoid making huge changes in its deregulatory telecom policies because consumers have seen a "broadband boom" since 2000, according to a new paper released Wednesday.