T-Mobile, EMI test ad-supported video service
Mobile operator teams with European record label for service that lets consumers watch music videos on cell phones.
Mobile operator teams with European record label for service that lets consumers watch music videos on cell phones.
The nation's largest telco Telstra today said it would build a new submarine fibre telecommunications cable between Australia and Hawaii.The cable will provide extra capacity for the increasing amount of international Internet traffic required by Australia's growing number of home and business broadband users, according to a statement issued by Telstra this afternoon.
Local second-tier telcos Amcom and People Telecom both suspended trading of their securities late Friday, pending significant announcements. The pair flagged plans to re-commence normal trading on the Australian Stock Exchange this Wednesday, or whenever the announcements were made.
DFAT's voice revamp slips date
Analysts are unanimously telling companies to stay put and avoid hefty penalties for early contract termination, at least until the contracts expire.
The nation's second-largest telco will soon launch a Voice over Internet Protocol-based (VoIP) telephony product aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Australia.The product -- dubbed ipPhone -- would provide Internet, intranet and voice services, and have the ability to replace the need for large numbers of legacy fixed voice lines, according to an Optus statement this morning.
Telstra has rediscovered up to 150 lost systems as it continues to revamp its IT and reduce the number of platforms it uses.
Talk about making big promises.AT&T and British Telecom are collaborating on building a new global communications network that officials say will transmit everything from telephone conversations to videoconferences to Web pages.
The wireless carrier is selling a device using Microsoft's Pocket PC Phone Edition software, making it the first to do so in the United States.
On a visit to MIT, ZDNet UK columnist Jane Wakefield discovers not a bunch of machine-obsessed geeks but a group of people dedicated to making technology human.