Tower Ban for NBN – Regional councils which do not approve NBN Co’s fixed wireless towers will have to rely on slower satellite internet services, the head of the government-owned company says. The comment comes following reports that several groups of residents near Ballarat oppose some of NBN Co’s applications to install 20 towers for [...]
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Windows 8 Test Version in Feb – Microsoft Corp. will release the first broadly available test version of Windows 8 — a new iteration of its flagship operating system — in late February, Vice President Antoine Leblond said at a conference. The company also plans to open a new application store for Windows at the [...]
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National Broadband Network Cost Blowout – Malcolm Turnbull has suggested the company building the national broadband network could face a $6 billion blowout in its operating costs, and accused the NBN Co of concealing key financial information. A year after the government-owned company published its corporate plan, the Opposition communications spokesman yesterday said many of [...]
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Google Opens Android Music Store – Android handset users in the US will now be able to get access to Google Music, where the search engine company has signed up the main music labels except, so far, Warner Music. The service is not available outside the US because Google has not completed negotiations with record [...]
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Adobe Drops Flash on Mobile – Adobe Systems Inc is pulling its Flash software for web video and games from the browsers of mobile devices, though Flash will still work on mobile apps and on the web browsers of regular computers. The move is a win for Apple Inc, which has famously banned Flash from [...]
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