An organisation that represents telecommunications consumers says political parties should make a new affordable home broadband product for those on low incomes a priority ahead of the forthcoming Federal Election.

The head of one of Australia's smaller Internet service providers told a Reddit Q&A session that it is likely that the cost of 100/40Mbps plans will drop over time, but it will require a write-down of the NBN for this to occur.

The Guardian Australia says it will be able to protect Mac users from being redirected to other pages when they visit its website using the Safari browser, but it will take some time to do so.

The Federal Government has awarded a developer of utility-scale energy storage facilities a sum of $6 million to build Australia's first compressed air energy storage project.

Many retail associates believe that if they are equipped with tablets, they could provide better customer service and improve the shopping experience, according to a newly published survey from global IT services provider Zebra Technologies.

The boss of Oracle’s ERP business in Australia reckons that his company is experiencing a boom in its SaaS business and winning deals that it could otherwise not won.

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