Wi Fi Enabled HD TVs Set To Be Hot Wi Fi is set to boom with Wi Fi enabled HD TV's set to be hot claims a leading research Company who also said that that embedded Wi-Fi processors could end up in almost a billion consumer electronics devices by 2012.
1.5 Million Australians Still On Dial Up More than 1.5 million Australians still use dial-up to connect to the Internet a recent Australian Bureau Of Statistics report revealed. However, more Australian than ever before are turning to fast high-speed broadband in their homes.
Sony To Take On Sonos In Wireless Music War Sony is set to take on the Sonos wireless multi room music system in a move that could force Sonos to sell through selected mass retailers. The Sony system which is expected to go on sale in Australia for around $599 by the end of the year it is also cheaper that the Sonos System. Sony also claim that the device can be set up easily by a user without any third party installation.
Telstra Working On Secret Fibre To The Home Project Telstra is almost certainly working on a “secret” fibre to the home (FttH) network, regardless of whether it wins the government NBN project, telecommunications analyst Paul Budde claims.
New Sonos Music System Faster And Cheaper Sonos a US start up 5 years ago has today rolled out new wireless devices for the home that allow music to be distributed to any room at up to 2X the wireless range of previous models. They have also slashed prices by up to $100 a device.
HD Wireless War New Technology Emerges A bitter Wireless Home Digital Interface war is set to kick off with Sony, Samsung and Sharp along with several other consumer electronic Companies set to back a brand new wireless technology that allows high definition video signals to be sent wirelessly from a single set-top box to TVs and monitors.
Cop Job For Nicked Kiwi Hacker An 18 year old New Zealand hacker who was nicked by US investigators for taking part in an international cyber-crime network that hijacked more than one million computers has got off without a conviction despite the fact that the youth was a key player in a gang that stole over $20.4m from private bank accounts.
Builders & Installers Get Help To Switch To Digital TV The Digital Television Antenna Systems Handbook was jointly issued today by the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB), in co-operation the Digital Switchover Taskforce and television-associated industries.
Queensland- Beautiful One Day, Fraudulent The Next Things are always bigger in Queensland- houses, bananas and footy teams in particular, and so it seems is the size of eBay fraud as Queensland police say they have tracked down 23 repeat offenders responsible for about half that state's reported eBay fraud.
G9 Goes To The Dogs As NBN Bid Expands Optus-led broadband consortium G9 has rebranded itself as Terria as its new chairman, former NSW treasurer Michael Egan came out swinging against Telstra.
iPhone Set To Turn Broadband Into Rivers Of Gold When the iPhone is finally released in this country, it will not just be tech addicts that will be the winners; third party OEMS’, app makers and other providers will also be getting some hot action from the Apple gravy train.
Telstra Tries To Pinch The Node According to reports, Telstra has thrown its hat into the ring to build the fibre-to-node broadband network by lodging a $5 million bidder’s bond with the federal government.
Telstra Snares Huge Defence Contract In a major win for Telstra, the Department of Defence has chosen the telco as the sole supplier of its extensive and critical fixed voice, mobile and broadband requirements.
Internode Launches Free Usenet Service Broadband company Internode is now providing its customers with free access to Australia’s premium Usenet service.
Intel Unfazed By US Recession Fears In an interview earlier today with the BBC, the CEO of Intel, the world's largest chip maker for desktops and laptops, Paul Otellini said the company has the strength to “ride out any US recession and make a success of Wimax wireless broadband”.
Intel Invents The Atom And Blows Microsoft Away At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shanghai last week, all the hot talk was about the Atom processor, however it was Microsoft which was feeling left out in the cold.
3 Rolls Out More Affordable Broadband Plans 3 has launched three new broadband plans in an effort to make mobile broadband even more appealing to more consumers than ever before, the company said.
Australia Triples Use Of Wi-Fi Australia has almost tripled its use of Wi-Fi over the past year, the latest mobile broadband index from iPass shows. We currently rank eighth among the world's top 10 countries for use of the wireless networking technology.
Linksys Take On Belkin In Wireless N Price War Linksys a division of Cisco is set to kick off a wireless router price war by releasing a brand new 802.11N router that is up to $100 below Belkin whose Wireless Ni Vision router sells for over $280 and up to $300 in some stores.
Z-Wave Wireless Calls For New Industry Standard A consortium based in the US but open to companies worldwide is ramping up its presence at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this year, moving to establish Z-Wave as the new international standard in wireless controls for the home.
D-Link Connects With DivX Device D Link is one of the first vendors in the world to deliver a DivX connected home network device. KISS now oned by Cisco tried but the box proved to be a big failure.
Iemma Push To Legalise Online Betting The global gambling company, Betfair, could be awarded a license to operate online betting in NSW following a meeting with Premier Morris Iemma’s Gaming and Racing Minister and Betfair, according to an exclusive report from the SMH.com.au
Why BigPond Service Is Really Lousy COMMENT: They may be Australia’s largest ISP but one has to seriously question BigPond’s systems and their commitment to customer service. After signing up for their so called fast BigPond Extreme service I found that what they promise and what one gets is a million kilometres away from a “good” customer experience.
D-Link Tries To Take On Apple TV D-Link which has been very quiet in the Consumer market of late now believes it can take on Apple TV with the announcement that DivX and D-Link have signed an agreement that will bring the first DivX Connected device to consumers.
Netgear Receives Wireless-N Certification Netgear has announced that its wireless-N 2.0 draft specification range of products has received certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance.
New Logitech Squeezebox Unveiled Logitech has announced the release of the latest version of the network music player system Squeezebox.
Cisco Coming To A House Near You Cisco wants to become a common old household name synonymous with great home entertainment and communication, the company's Chief Executive has said. He has also confirmed the Linksys name is heading for the bin.
Netgear DIY Home Networking Wireless and networking specialist Netgear will be showing off its latest wireless gear in a working digital home setup at the Sydney Home Show in a bid to demonstrate how easy it is to set up a connected home.
Cisco To Dump Linksys & Scientific Atlanta Brand Names Cisco is set to dump the Linksys and Scientific Alanta brand names in a move that will see the networking giant consolidate its image into the CE and SMB markets.
Netgear Connects With Smart Houses If you are looking for smart networking or wireless gear in the home the name Netgear will feature in your discussion somewhere. If it doesn’t it should do as they are one of only a few true home networking Companies who can deliver an all round experience.
Cisco To Invest In Oz Wireless Company A senior Cisco executive in the USA has told SHN that the networking giant is set to make aninvestment in an Australia wireless audio Company this week.
Telstra Spin Off Seeks Compensation Just like CSIRO did a Telstra spinoff is now trying to use the US legal system to seek hundreds of millions of dollars for patent infringments.
CSIRO Sets Benchmark For Bluetooth Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has struck the fear of god into WiFi equipment makers with recent wins in patent court cases - and now Bluetooth wireless technology vendors are getting anxious about a looming new legal offensive.
OZ Company Scores US Wireless Audio Deal CES EXCLUSIVE: Avega an Australian start up company is set to hit the big time with several international partners set to sign contracts for their wireless audio distribution system.
Cisco Powers On The Digital Home At CES 07 The world’s largest networking Company Cisco is set to leverage its Linksys brand into the home by delivering a powerful array of networking technology that is simple to use while spanning voice, data entertainment, storage and Wireless.
CSIRO One Step Closer To Wireless Win The CSIRO is now one step closer in its court case against IT giants such as Intel and Microsoft over royalties for wireless LAN technology.
CSIRO Wins Landmark WLAN Court Case CSIRO has won a US court case against Buffalo Technology in a battle to be paid royalties for its Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technology. The result may mean manufacturers of WLAN products worldwide will have to pay CSIRO royalties for the technology.
New Bigpond ADSL2+ Rocks Telstra has just upped the anti in the battle over broadband speed by delivering a superfast new ADSL2+ service from more than 2400 exchanges in Australia. They claim that it is among the fastest services in the world today.
HD Content Streamed Over Wireless Six of the worlds largest CE Companies are set to launch new wireless technology that simultaneously streams multiple high-definition (HD) video programs in uncompressed form among multiple devices up to 25 metres apart.
Linksys May License New CE Technology A senior executive of Cisco owned Linksys has said that the Company is working towards developing a proprietary “Connected Home” and Connected Office” structure which they are considering licensing to other CE Companies in the same way that Matsushita Electric did with their VHS technology in the 1970’s.
Consumers Want To Download Content Consumers want to download content if the explosion in You Tube is anything to go by says a leading research Company. They also say that WiFi is set to take off.
Wi-Fi Is Our Future Wi-Fi will be the key enabler for delivering and redistributing content in the home, says ABI Research.
New Linksys Boss Wants To Work With Digital Integrators The new head of Linksys a division of global network Company Cisco claims he is committed to chasing down the home and SOHO market with the help of digital integrators.
Apple Goes Patent Filing Apple Computer has recently filed for patents on several interesting technologies that cover iPods wirelessly communicating with TVs, an online teleconferencing whiteboard, an integrated sensing display, and virtual keys of a touch-screen virtual keyboard claims Apple Insider.
Vendors Role Out 802.11n After months of discussion vendors are now rolling out wirless and network products based on the 802.11n standard.
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