Entries Tagged as 'Politics'

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

G9 relaunches as TERRiA and prepairs for Australian Broadband rollout

The “G9″ group of telecommunications companies has renamed itself and is calling for structural separation of Telstra as it prepares its plan for the new national broadband network.
“TERRiA is now the unifying name for our consortium”, said chairman of the group, Michael Egan. “Its mission is to provide an independent and competitive communication network for [...]

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Outcry over BitTorrent blocking stretches to Canada

Canadians are joining Americans in their outcry over ISPs allegedly blocking BitTorrent and other P2P applications. Now, two Canadian groups have now asked the privacy commissioner to investigate the activities of Bell Canada.
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Internet Clinic (CIPPIC) is accusing Bell Canada of failing to obtain consent from its Internet customers around [...]

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Apple’s cash may soon rival Microsoft

While Microsoft has long held the title as the technology firm squatting the largest mound of cash, Apple may soon give the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant a run for its money, literally.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Todd Bishop points out that Microsoft has reduced its cash balance from more than $64 billion less than four years ago [...]

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

OPEL contract terminated - surprising?, not!

Optus and Elders, which formed the joint OPEL venture, have been notified by the ALP federal government that their regional broadband contract has been terminated.
The contract was awarded in June last year by the Coalition government, and consisted of $958M in funding to help build a new regional broadband network. But the plan has been [...]