The decision of Australia's Labor government to proceed with the rollout of fibre-to-the-premises (FttP) broadband in the country has been endorsed by Fleur Pellerin, France's delegate for small and medium enterprise.

A short, disquieting YouTube video, which shows a toddler steering a car - supposedly on a suburban Melbourne street - has invited the ire of the police authorities who have slammed the incident, calling it an act of "absolute stupidity."

With the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) continuing in Tasmania, twenty new NBN government services were launched across the Australian state on Monday, February 18.

In an evident attempt to support the ever increasing mobile data traffic across Australia, telecom provider Telstra has recently announced a new network strategy under which it intends ramping up its 2G network spectrum to carry 4G traffic.

In a Tuesday statement, Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) said that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vodafone New Zealand and Australia's Telstra, for building a $US60 million trans-Tasman submarine cable which would link New Zealand with Australia and would strengthen the country's Internet connectivity with Asia.

In its recently released 2013 Threat Report, Security Labs - the global research team at security firm Websense - has revealed that worldwide cyber-attack trends have been witnessing explosive year-on-year growth of late.

In connection with the Australian Federal Parliamentary Committee's digital prices inquiry that has been running since July 2012, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft have been summonsed to appear before the investigation, which chiefly pertains to the high costs which Australian consumers have to pay for digital music, software, games and hardware.

According to the Australian Financial Review (AFR), Nokia CEO Stephen Elop responded to the Australian media's queries about a much-rumoured Nokia Windows RT tablet by saying that his company is prepared to "consider any option" for a tablet OS.