EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

The floods in Southern Queensland and Northern New South Wales may have left Brisbane's data centres unscathed (see story below) but they have also proved embarrassing for Telstra.

The carrier is today mobilising resources to flood-affected areas where iTnews can reveal it culled network engineers in recent months.

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | May 22, 2009

Telstra is sending 130 network engineers to a flood-ravaged area in which the telco culled nine linesmen just two months ago, according to the CEPU.

By Staff writers | May 22, 2009

University of Sydney students have taken to online forums to vent about the institution switching its email over to Microsoft's Live@edu product earlier this month.

By Ry Crozier | May 22, 2009

Users of EFTel-owned ISP aaNet will have to wait several hours to receive all their emails after a "major hardware failure" cut off webmail access since early Thursday.

By Brett Winterford | May 22, 2009

The announcement of a homegrown National Broadband Network (NBN) has spurred on local fibre optics company Warren and Brown to build a $4.1m R&D and distribution facility in Melbourne.

By Brett Winterford | May 22, 2009

Data Centres in Brisbane have come through the worst rainstorm in three decades unscathed, as flooding took its toll on telecommunications lines and other key infrastructure.

By Staff writers | May 22, 2009

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said his department is "finalising discussions" with the Tasmanian Government to commence fibre-to-the-home rollouts from July.

By Phil Muncaster | May 22, 2009

Security experts are warning Twitter users of a new phishing scam that could lead to their accounts being compromised.

By Iain Thomson | May 22, 2009

Sun chief executive has announced that Sun is to build an application store for Java and is aiming for a billion users.

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