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• Second Australian Telco To Roll Out 100mpbs Internet: NBN Looking Shakier By The Day

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 724
  Optus, Australia’s second largest telco has today confirmed that it will upgrade its network to offer 100mbps internet, matching a similar commitment from Telstra in November . Optus will spend AU$25 million upgrading its HFC network in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to Docsis 3.0 by mid next year, bringing ...
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• Nokia E72 comes to Australia on Optus, VHA

  
  TECHGEEK.com.au — Authority: 130
  Nokia has announced that it will be launching the successor to the E71, the Nokia E72, to Australia. The phone still has the body of the E71, but includes a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a 5 megapixel camera (up from a 3.2 megapixel camera), an optical navigational key, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and supports microSD cards.The ...
  3 days ago

• Optus Primed For Backlash, Blocking Paid Apps

  
  Android Phone Fans — Authority: 697
  Much of Android’s beauty is based on the Android Market. Everything from teeny little free apps made by some dude next door to full-fledged software solutions and in-depth games all available starting at free and working your way up. Unless you’re an Optus customer – then the applications you can download ...
  5 days ago

• Optus Are Blocking Paid Android Apps

  
  autotechie.com — Authority: 158
  Now that Telstra’s trying to fix its public image , is Optus trying to fill the role of telco villain? Neerav Bhatt over at APC magazine reveals that Optus – no stranger to criticism over its handling of Android – is actually blocking people purchasing paid applications for Android phones on their network. ...
  6 days ago

• Get Your Hands On A BlackBerry Bold 9700 Now

  
  autotechie.com — Authority: 158
  RIM had a lunch launching the BlackBerry Bold 9700 a couple of weeks ago, but I held off sharing because you couldn’t actually buy the phone yet. Well now you can as Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have all launched the handset. (more…) The rest is here:  Get Your Hands On A BlackBerry Bold 9700 Now
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• Elephant-Subduing Device Appears To Be Inspired By

  
  autotechie.com — Authority: 158
  Angry elephants are a big issue. That’s why someone invented a remote-controlled device that shoots out nylon rope and binds rampaging elephants’ legs. Sounds familiar somehow. How’d those snow speeders in Star Wars subdue the ATATs again? (more…) View original post here:  Elephant-Subduing Device Appears ...
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• New Jailbroken iPhone Worm Wants Your Bank Details [IPhone]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 469
      Unlike that rickrolling bit of fun, this new worm maliciously targets Dutch ING customers who login via their Jailbroken iPhone. And while it’s isolated to the Netherlands right now, it’s yet another warning for Jailbreakers to take simple preventative measures. More here: New Jailbroken iPhone Worm ...
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• iBot Mark 2: Go Straight To Jail Do Not Pass Go

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 567
  Back in April, I blogged about an article in that months Virus Bulletin by  Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli about the first serious attempt to creat a Mac botnet. The issue containin that article, by the way, is now available on the Virus Bulletin web site at   ...
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• Optus Free Sim Cards

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 182
  Get a free Optus sim card before 30 December 2009
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• Australia’s Optus to trial LTE, successor to 3G

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 142
  Optus will be the first telco in the nation to trial a new mobile broadband technology that transmits data 20 times faster than current 3G systems. The technology — which is known as LTE (long term evolution) and is being positioned as a successor to current 3G mobile networks — is capable of transmitting data ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unifying NBN fibre and wireless networks

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 139
  Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has announced it a trial of Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile wireless technology in Australia with Optus during 2010. LTE offers up to 340 Mbps, but more significantly should make it easier to integrate with other wireless and wired broadband networks, such as the National ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australian telcos move on SMS scams

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 142
  The communications watchdog has welcomed a bipartisan effort by Optus and Telstra to crack down on premium SMS providers operating on their networks. The decision of the two carriers follows industry statistics revealing skyrocketing complaints about premium SMS services and the Federal Court’s decision to impose ...
  2 weeks ago

• Optus and MTV launch push to find budding TV makers

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 696
  Optus and MTV Networks have brought back the One80Project competition aimed at finding aspiring local TV makers.   Now in its fourth year and held in association with BlackBerry and Event Cinemas, entrants are asked to upload an 180 second pilot on a website to be shortlisted to 10 by an industry panel of judges. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Optus sets up apps store for Mobile Users

  
  pocket pc software, windows mobile freeware, wm6.5 news — Authority: 487
  Optus OPTUS, a leading Australian Mobile Service Provider has launched a new applications store for its mobile customers via its Optus Zoo portal, which caters to non-iPhone devices.About 1000 applications are currently available, split between four smartphone platforms: Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ashley Towns Rickrolls iPhones, Claims First iPhone Virus

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 488
  Ashley Towns is the first person to have created an iPhone virus, or so he claims. He does not regret writing it and he made sure to remind people that Rick Astley is here to stay. The iPhone virus is called “ikee” and it changes the wallpaper of iPhones to a picture of 80’s pop singer Rick Astley. A message ...
  2 weeks ago

• Second iPhone virus found, again targets jailbroken iPhones

  
  Boy Genius Report — Authority: 771
  Earlier this week, an Australian coder by the name of Ikee wrote an interesting iPhone worm targeting users with jailbroken iPhones — specifically those users who had not RTFM and changed their root password. The worm was programmed to scan the 3G IP ranges of the Telus, Optus, and Vodafone networks in Australia. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Optus appoints marketing directors to consumer and mobile operations

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 696
  Optus has appointed Jim Jaques as marketing director for its consumer business, and brought in former Vodafone executive Hugh Humphrey into a new role created to drive its enterprise mobile business.   Jaques replaces Anthony Hearne who has moved to Virgin Mobile to take up the position of head of marketing. ...
  3 weeks ago

• iWorm ikee: Sex and Drugs and Rick and Roll

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 567
  The iPhone, it seems, is under siege: a recent worm exploits a known (and previously exploited) vulnerability that affects the owners of "jailbroken" phones on which OpenSSH has been installed. (Jailbreaking allows iPhone users to install and use unapproved applications.) Of course, theres been an enormous amount of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jailbroken iPhones in Australia get hit with first iPhone worm

  
  IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — Authority: 739
  Jailbroken iPhones beware, if you have SSH installed, you’re going to want to change your default root password quick. Like lickity-split quick. Following the jailbroken iPhone hack that held Dutch iPhones for ransom , another hacker is targeting Australian iPhones that have been jailbroken and are still running ...
  3 weeks ago

• First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones

  
  FreshGIZMOS in touch with tomorrow — Authority: 151
  The “IKEE” worm is the first ever iPhone worm presently infecting the jailbroken iPhones in Australia. The hacker ikex has undoubtedly given every jailbroken iPhone user a nightmare. SSH which ma...
  3 weeks ago

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