iPrimus will help its customers avoid nasty excess usage fees by shaping its mobile broadband plans once the limit is reached.

Internode has begun selling naked DSL on its own DSLAMs, including to customers living far away from their exchange.

Telstra has dropped the pricing of its 3G wireless service, and has reduced the number of plans considerably.

Mobile phone/broadband provider 3 has struck a deal to get access to Telstra's much admired NextG network.

Only weeks after increasing the limits on some of its existing data plans, 3 has launched a new special offer for 6GB of mobile 3G data for $39/month.

Optus is experience a major outage in QLD and northern NSW due to two simultaneous network failures.

The ACCC will force Telstra to provide ongoing reports about access to Telstra exchange facilities, in response to continued complaints from ISPs.

The federal government has published a large number of submissions on the regulatory issues surrounding new proposed new national broadband network.

iiNet has increased the quotas on its range of ADSL plans, with customers being given the benefits automatically today.

Australian Internet Solutions (AINS) has purchased the customer base of troubled ISP Blitz Telecom for its SuperNerd brand, in a last minute deal.

Subscriptions to traditional newspapers are down. But there might still be hope for the daily. Access to blogs and web sites through mobile technology could help newspapers make a resurgence...

Three new Mobile News blogs have been launched with a view to providing up to the minute mobile information. (Note: This is NOT a self promotion) The blogs, titled MobileDevicesToday...

AOL has announced that it will soon acquire the social feed site, Socialthing. The Internet start-up controls a similar niche to FriendFeed and disseminates information from sites like Twitter, Digg...

The salamander is an extraordinary creature. It can grow back limbs that are lost in an incredibly short period of time. That makes it unique in the animal world. "You...

Access to the Internet is becoming increasingly vital in the developing world. Computer scientists in Pakistan have begun development of a system which will boost download speeds by allowing people...

A new process that is being used in wastewater treatment could increase efficiency in ethanol plants. Commercial ethanol production is very energy-intensive. But oxygen-less vats of bacteria that naturally feed...

A new web start-up Mygazines.com has begun encouraging people to copy magazines and put them up on the web for file sharing. People, Men's Health and The Economist have all...

Blitz Telecom, purchaser of G-Node and Koala Telecom, is in financial trouble and was placed in administration earlier this month.

Adam Internet customers have been suffering from serious technical issues with their ADSL2+ connections for days as a result of issues with Adam's backhaul provider.