Just moments ago the NBN Co released as expected the business case for one of Australia’s largest infrastructure projects. The 160 page plan (which you can read here) reveals the network, which by 2013 will service approximately 1.7 million premises, schools, homes and hospitals, will receive a rate of return of 7.04% per annum – a positive rate of return but a lot lower than that which would be expected of a private company undertaking such a large [...]

Telstra this week released a native iPhone application for their Whereis navigation tool, providing Australian iPhone owners yet another GPS application alternative. Powered by Garmin and only available in the Australia, the app is available now as a free download with features of the application including the ability to view integrated Yellow Pages data, view your current location on a map and discover ATMs, banks and petrol stations. The application also supports a number of [...]

Dell Australia has today revealed their Streak device is now capable of running the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, dubbed ‘Froyo’. The update – which can be downloaded through Dell Australia’s website or through an Over-The-Air (OTA) update to be pushed out in the coming days by Optus – brings a number of welcome features to the Streak which originally shipped with Android 1.6, including faster performance, support for Adobe Flash 10.1, the ability to [...]

It’s shaping up to be a big week over at iiNet HQ, with the company yesterday announcing the new BoB Lite and today revealing plans to launch their own mobile phone service. While the company won’t be providing mobile phones for customers, it’s now selling post-paid plans contract-free for $10, $20 and $40 all of which include unlimited use of many popular social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. Customers will be expected [...]

Internet service provider iiNet has today announced the BoB Lite, a lightweight and cheaper version of their BoB phone and Internet solution. The first device to come out of iiNet’s new iiNet Labs department, the BoB Lite is thinner, lighter, more sleek and more compact than its predecessor and provides an all-in-one device for new iiNet customers, acting as a wireless modem and router, VOIP phone and USB device charger. The BoB Lite also features [...]

While it’s supposed to be the season for giving and celebration, Optus has become the latest carrier to experience a network outage this time in Sydney. Optus customers using the telco’s 3G network last night found themselves unable to send text messages, make calls or use data packages as a transmission fault wrecked havoc across Sydney CBD and “surrounding areas” coverage. “A transmission fault was identified on our mobile network at approx. 5.30pm this evening [...]

Reports today suggest Telstra is looking into moving many of its customers onto Microsoft’s Windows Live service as part of a proposal for the future. As part of its plan to “evolve” the company’s offering to customers in the future, Telstra is understood to be considering moving customers onto a cloud-based offering such as Microsoft’s Hotmail, which would see customers able to use their BigPond accounts for most Windows Live services including SkyDrive for files, [...]

As if the recent performance issues on their network weren’t enough, Vodafone Australia yesterday suffered an outage across Western Australia which saw many users unable to use their mobile phones. Across most of Western Australia yesterday many Vodafone users were met with “No Service” messages from around 1.30pm WST, rendering most phones on the network unusable as Vodafone raced to fix the issue. According to some, Vodafone appears to have been upgrading parts of their [...]

By now you’ve probably heard the news from overnight that Google and Samsung announced the first phone running Android 2.3, the Samsung Nexus S. The sleek, slim-line Nexus S  – which you can read more about here – features in-built support for Near Field Communications, a GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, 4.0″ Super AMOLED WVGA display which is touch capacitive like Apple’s iOS devices, weighs 129 grams, has a back-facing 5 megapixels camera capable of shooting 720 x [...]

Parrot’s AR.Drone is now finally available in selected Telstra and Fonezone stores across Australia in time for the Christmas period. The remote controlled quadricopter is controlled by an iPhone application, and has seen a number of positive reviews in America. It works by creating a wireless network which the iPhone joins to — and after downloading the AR.Drone “Free Flight” application from Apple’s iTunes App Store you’re away. Able to work up to 50 metres [...]