EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

For all of Sol's assurances Telstra's $300m cable network upgrade was planned for some time, it is quite the coincidence it was sprung upon us the same week many expect an NBN announcement.

Symbolically, it is Telstra's way of saying it will still invest in fixed broadband where its competitors won't.

But note that Telstra isn't yet committing to taking the upgrade beyond Melbourne, despite it being of incremental cost to do so. Do I sense some brinkmanship here?

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | March 10, 2009

Telstra has shrugged off its exclusion from the National Broadband Network to invest $300 million upgrading its cable network.

By Iain Thomson | March 10, 2009

Google has admitted that some users of its Google Docs online word processing service may have had their documents shared with unauthorised users.

By Brett Winterford | March 10, 2009

Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo and Chairman Don McGauchie are "liabilities" in terms of the carrier's potential, according to a new research note by telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.

By Gabriel Madway | March 10, 2009

As netbooks surge in popularity, open-source Linux-based operating systems have established a toehold on the low-cost, stripped-down computers as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows.

By Staff writers | March 10, 2009

NSW Government shared services provider ServiceFirst will roll out an Objective enterprise content management system to around 1,200 users across multiple agencies.

By Staff writers | March 10, 2009

Aussie engineers are applying insect vision and navigation techniques to enable airborne defence systems to acquire, track and strike moving targets more accurately.

By Iain Thomson | March 10, 2009

A report in a Taiwanese newspaper is the strongest clue yet that Apple will be selling a netbook by the end of the year.

By Staff writers | March 10, 2009

Aussie Web 2.0 pioneers Atlassian have released a new version of the Bamboo continuous integration environment that allows users to run software builds in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

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