Panasonic Telephone Connects To IP Camera IPL Communications will be distributing a new Panasonic IP phone that can be connected to an IP camera permanently, allowing users to keep an eye on key locations from their desks.
Samsung Omnia Pro Launches On Telstra Samsung announced that its Omnia Pro, a Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone with QWERTY keypad, is available exclusively for Telstra users.
Blackberry Unveils New Bold Phone Research In Motion has announced its new Blackberry Bold phone that is smaller and lighter than its predecessor.
New Pre-Paid Phones From Telstra Telstra has added four new mobile phones and a mobile broadband USB modem to its pre-paid range leading up to the Christmas season.
HTC Smartphone With Windows Mobile 6.5 Launched After its worldwide announcement this morning, Microsoft, Telstra and HTC have rolled out the first Australian Windows phone that will run on its new Windows Mobile 6.5 Operating System.
Thin Motorola Bluetooth Headset Revealed Motorola has announced its thinnest Bluetooth headset that claims to automatically increase the volume of the unit when in noisy environments.
World First LG Smartphone Revealed LG has unveiled its first Windows Mobile phone during a Telstra briefing this morning. This makes Telstra the first mobile operator in the world to offer this smartphone and will be launched on July 28.
New HTC Phones Get Smart HTC has rolled out three new Windows-based smartphones in an effort simplify the way business users communicate.
Vodafone Shares Blackberry Cap Vodafone launched a new range of shared business caps, which includes an unlimited BlackBerry service.
Panasonic IP Phone Cuts Phone Bills Auto Electrics Australia chose a Panasonic IP-PBX system as it was reliable, cost effective, and easy to use.
Blackberry Sports New Curve Research In Motion has today released its thinnest and lightest BlackBerry smartphone that claims to keep you connected anytime, anywhere.
Lenovo Merges With BlackBerry Lenovo and Research In Motion (RIM) have joined forces to provide business users with a solution that can help them conduct their business more effectively.
Why the Vodafone Deal Will Hurt Optus Comment: Only weeks out from Vodafone rolling out a new 3G network, the Company has cut a deal to form a 50/50 joint venture with the struggling 3 Network owned by Hutchison Telecommunication. The new network will now take on Optus who last week rolled out the new Google Android HTC phone in an effort to grow their 3G traffic.
Optus Launches SatPhone For The Bush Activ8me has announced the signing of a three year wholesale agreement with Optus to sell a new range of satellite range of handsets.
US President Offered Secret New Windows Phone Has Microsoft got a secret new phone that is so secret that very few people are allowed to buy one? It appears so. The new phone seems to have already been offered to United States President Barack Obama as a replacement for his much loved Research In Motion Blackberry, which Microsoft claims is a consumer phone and that his phone records have already been hacked into while he was using his Blackberry.
HTC Unveils HD Touch Phone HTC has rolled out its new touch phone that allows a user to watch video clips, read websites, and edit spreadsheets or documents on a big screen.
Telstra Boss Gives President Elect Obama A Broadband Lesson After taking on the Australian Federal Government Telstra boss Sol Trujillo has now put pen to paper to tell the new US Obama Administration how they should be deliver fast broadband. He has even held Australia up as an example of how to do it.
Motorola Hurting As More Jobs Slashed Motorola who have struggled since the succes of their Razor flip phone is set to cut 4,000 jobs. They also claim that fourth quarter handset sales have slumped and that the Company will report losses.
Telstra Board Spat Led To Stuffed Bid Claimed Business Spectator commentator Alan Kohler has suggested that a spat between Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo and the Telstra board resulted in the carriers bid for the National Broadband Network being stuffed up.
i-Mate Phones Get Major Face Lift In an effort to cope up with the iPhone's intuitive touch interface, i-mate has launched its new user interface that claims to deliver a simple icon based menu.
Telstra Bid $5B On New Broadband Network Telstra has submitted a proposal for a new national broadband network however their submission is subject to a number of conditions for the life of the project, including no further separation of Telstra and regulatory certainty.
Microsoft Gives Phone Vendors Two Finger Salute Windows mobile partners such as Samsung, LG, HTC and Motorola now have a strong reason to dump the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS Operating system after news leaked that Microsoft are planning their own phone that will compete head on with their long time partners.
Optus Owners Borrow A Billion As the days wind down to the November 26 deadline for the $9 billion National Broadband Network bids, Optus parent Singapore Telecommunications has announced new loans of about S$1.07 billion (A$1.09 billion) from banks in Singapore and Australia.
Optus And Vodaphone Get Edgy The mobile phone sector was looking strong in Australia in the quarter ended September 30, despite the current global meltdown, with both Optus and Vodafone yesterday reporting signing up record numbers of new subscribers. But both operators who have been experiencing difficulties with their 3G wireless buildouts are sounding decidedly edgy on the outlook for the future.
Hot Samsung Smartphone Launched Samsung has today launched its much awaited smartphone that claims to give users ‘everything’ they want in a mobile phone.
New Jabra Headset Cancels Out Noise Jabra is offering a Bluetooth headset that will block out background noise, allowing users to converse with anyone just about anywhere.
HP enters Smartphone Market As The Going Gets Tough For RIM Hewlett-Packard who have struggled in the past in the PDA market now believe that they can make a go of it in the phone market with the launch of a new Smartphone that will take them right up against the Apple 3G iPhone, the Blackberry and a host of offerings from the likes of Nokia, Sony Erriccson, Samsung and LG.
New Samsung Phone Gets Smart Samsung has launched a smartphone that comes pre-installed with the latest Windows Mobile OS, Mobile Office, Direct Push E-mail, and over the air sync of PIMS for total access to files while on-the-go.
HP iPaq Phone Takes On Apple iPhone They use to own the old PDA market with their Compaq iPaq now Hewlett-Packard wants to take a stab at the Smart Phone market up against the likes of Nokia, Apple and Sony Ericcsson.
New Google Android Phone Exposed With Limitations The new Google G1 Android phone which is set to take on Apple’s 3G iPhone has finally been unveiled in New York and will be shown for the first time next week in Australia.
Wireless Broadband Use Increases By 90 Percent According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), wireless technology increased by nearly 90% in six months, with over 809,000 subscribers at the end of June 2008, compared with 433,000 subscribers at the end of December 2007.
911 Made The Blackberry Will Wall St Take It Down? It was the crash of the World Trade Centre Towers in New York that turned the humble Blackberry mobile phone into a huge success. Now it could well be the crash of Wall Street firms that take it down.
Telstra Rolls Out Pre-Paid Mobile 3G Telstra has rolled out its Next G wireless broadband Pre-Paid making mobile broadband flexible both by location and now price.
Optus 3G Network Stuffed Major Broadband Service Dropped Optus who earlier this month were labelled as delivering the slowest 3G iPhone service in the world has been forced to dump their much heralded Fusion 3G broadband service due to capacity and congestion problems on their 3G network.
Will Tech Geek Turnbull Take On Broadband Debate? New Liberal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnball knows a lot about technology, broadband and the business of an ISP after making a fortune selling Australian ISP Ozemail where he was a shareholder and director.
Blackberry Partners With Microsoft, MySpace & TiVo Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has announced partnerships with Microsoft, MySpace and TiVo, saying it is working with these new partners to put their software on Blackberry smartphones.
New Nokia 3G Phone Next Week Nokia Australia has named the launch date for its new 3G smartphone, the N96, as it seeks to regain some of the ground it has lost to new competitors like the Apple iPhone, Blackberry Bold and HTC Touch.
Lenovo & 3Com Go Back To School Networking solutions provider 3Com Corporation, and PC maker Lenovo have won a tender with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) in Victoria to provide $550,000 worth of networking equipment and services.
Digital Radio Marketers Launch $10 Million Campaign Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) this morning revealed their marketing plans for the launch of digital radio broadcasting early next year, and by all accounts, they have opted for a soft, step by step approach to get the DAB+ off the ground as effectively as possible.
Vodafone Launches New SMB Pricing Packs Vodafone Australia has launched its new Business Caps, available to both single and multiple users. The Business Caps are available to business customers on all new smartphones, including the BlackBerry Bold and Nokia E71 smartphones, available to Australian customers from mid-September.
Terria Monopoly Plan A Dog Barks Telstra As the announcement of the winner of the tender for the National Broadband Network (NBN) gets closer, its getting more and more nasty out there on telco street.
Sensis Whereis Navigator Now On Mobiles Sensis, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telstra, has partnered with Garmin International and has released its Whereis Navigator service on selected Next G handsets, giving customers access to an all-in-one navigation facility on their mobile phone.
Nokia Market Share To Crash Says Gartner Blackberry maker Research In Motion has almost doubled their share of the Smartphone market during the past 12 months according to research Company Gartner. they also claim that Nokia's market share is set to slide.
