Microsoft Responds To Explorer Problems
Microsoft has finally acted on the widely reported serious security glitch in its Internet Explorer browser, issuing an emergency fix one week after the "zero-day" vulnerability first came to light .

iiNet Pushes Broadband To 85Mbps
Western Australia-based iiNet says it has achieved download speeds of up to 85 megabits per second and uplinks at 47Mbps in a Perth field trial of VDSL2 equipment, according to a Communications Day report.

A Disaster In Waiting Claims Telstra Boss After Being Dumped
Telstra has cited the failed OPEL network disaster as a classic example of what Australians could expect from the remaining broadband partners, who, after being given $1 billion, were a year later dumped with Telstra now claiming they didn?t even have a management team in place.

Pay TV Booms As Consumers Stay Home
Australians looking for an entertainment experience at home are turning to subscription TV with Austar United Communications the regional provider of pay TV services reporting that they have lifted subscribers by over 18,000 during the past two months while also lifting both revenue and profits.

ACCC Rejects Telstra Pay TV Monopoly Plea
This afternoon the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) rejected Telstra's Optus HFC exemption plea but accept transmission exemption

Telstra Broadband Goes Bush
In another attempt to bolster its National Broadband Network (NBN) credentials, Telstra has teamed up with the Northern Territory Government and Rio Tinto Alcan and announced a $34 million project to connect northern Arnhem Land to the nation's fibre optic backbone.

Optus To Telstra : Pull Your Head In
Following yesterdays story, whereby Telstra publically rubbished Optus? claims of being on par with the telco in relation to broadband speeds and network coverage, Optus has come out swinging, and giving Telstra a serve of its own.

Vodafone Gets SMB Street Cred With New Alliance
People Telecom and Vodafone have signed a three-year deal for the supply of mobile voice, mobile email and mobile broadband services, which should go some way in increasing Vodafones business market share, according to the players involved.

3 Network Coverage Set To Nearly Double
Hutchison Telecommunications says that during the first half of 2009, 3 will provide its customers with access to 3G services in areas covering 96 per cent of the population.

Government To Share Broadband Infomation
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today released draft instruments setting out the network information that carriers are to provide for the National Broadband Network project, and the rules to safeguard the information.

ISP Named And Shamed By ACCC
Telco provider Gotalk have been named and shamed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Authority for employing overseas spruikers to sell their product using unethical practises.

Foxtel Goes Live With New HD Service
Foxtel is set to go head to head with TIVO with the pay TV operator formally announcing that their HD+ service will go live on Sunday, June 22 and that more than 15,000 subscribers have already upgraded to their new service.

60 Minutes Commits Broadcasting Suicide
The Nine Networks 60 Minutes program is in strife with the Australian Communications and Media Authority who found that they had breached regulatory safeguards for reports about suicide. They also found that Nine failed to adequately warn viewers about the potentially distressing material prior to the segment.

Just Give Me Internet Speed Say Consumers
It's not only Internet speeds that are hotting up. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the number of broadband connections capable of more 1.5Mbps more than doubled in the 15 months to December 2007 to 2.51 million services.

Scarlet Coming To A TV Screen Soon
Scarlet is set to be a controversial topic soon and it has nothing to do with the availability of Captain Scarlet and more than 260 hours of archive programmes from UK production house ITV that will soon be available on Apple's iTunes store.

Government Opens National Broadband Network Tender
The Federal government has released the Request for Proposals (RFP) to roll-out and operate the much-awaited National Broadband Network.

TPG Gets A Whole Lot Of Soul
The merger of communications company Soul and ISP TPG becomes effective as of today, following approval by SP Telemedia (owner of Soul) shareholders at a general meeting held in Sydney yesterday, creating a diverse and potentially large media and internet conglomerate and perhaps even a future Telstra rival.

Telstra Pushes Remote Monitoring Over Next G
With the CDMA network scheduled to close on 28 April 2008, Telstra is now encouraging 2G customers to consider the switch to Next G, stating the higher data speeds of the network will facilitate faster remote monitoring for businesses.

KaZaa Case Back In Court After Music Labels Dropped Charges
A man who was sued when his daughter was caught downloading music from the Australian KaZaa peer to peer web site has gone back to court in an effort to get his legal fees paid.

Google Boss Slams Microsoft Warns Don't Act Like Them
The boss of CEO, Eric Schmidt has slammed Microsoft calling them an anticompetitive organisation he has also said that Companies who want to protect their brand should ?not act like Microsoft?.

Google Announce New HQ and Google Transit
Google Australia has announced that they will establish a new 6 star development centre in Sydney. They have also announced that they will role out their Google Transit technology in Perth for use with Google Maps. This will be the first time that the technology will have been seen in the Southern Hemisphere.

SmartHouse Hacking Case Takes A New Turn
SmartHouse is set to call in a Sydney based security Company who specialise in detecting the IP address of hackers. The move follows the detection of changes to code and the accessing of a proprietary 4Square Media content engine by unknown individuals. We have also identified one of the journalists who gave information to Media Watch in an effort to discredit SmartHouse.

Foxtel "Call Storm" Customer Database Down For 4 Days
Foxtel has admitted that they have had database issues when they migrated a new customer service database over to handle new Foxtel services, however they do claim that no records are missing. However they have said that tey have had to bring in over 100 staff to handle what they describe as "Customer Call Storms".

Foxtel Loses Thousands Of Records
A major upgrade of the Foxtel pay TV customer database has seen thousands of customer profiles and information totally wiped resulting in consumers who call with a technical problem being told that they don?t exist.

Murdoch & News Look To Cut Deal
Rupert Murdoch has emerged as the unlikely "white knight" who could come to the rescue of Yahoo! as it seeks to fend off the $41 billion takeover bid by Microsoft.

Telstra To Access 'Secret' OPEL Documents
Telstra is taking it upon itself to reveal ?secret documents? from the previous Government that could disclose why it changed a bid process which gave nearly $1 billion to the OPEL consortium headed-up by rival Telco Optus for broadband services which haven?t yet been delivered.

1.8 Million Extra Premises Gain Telstra ADSL2+
More than a million extra families and businesses will be able to access high-speed Telstra broadband after the telecommunications dodged a roadblock today in Canberra with the Government announcing it didn?t plan to regulate Telstra?s ADSL2+ service at this stage.

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The P2 is at the top-end of the Samsung MP3 offering, along with the recently-released T10, and is the only MP3 player on the market that can stream stereo music via Bluetooth, offering a more pleasurable and convenient experience for the consumer, according to Samsung. "In line with the trend of other portable digital devices, consumers are demanding more and more from their MP3 player in terms of features and quality," said Samsung product manager, MP3, Lisa Findlay. "The Samsung P2 has it all ? excellent sound and video quality, unique features, stunning design and innovative technology. It's the MP3 player for the consumer that wants the very best."