After many false starts, conjectures and worried prognostications from local retailers, online retail giant Amazon has finally announced that it will be kicking off operations in Australia today.

In case you were concerned about why many Asian based sites were slow to load since yesterday, a submarine cable that links Australia to Southeast Asia has been cut yet again, increasing the latency for Australian users to Asian destinations.

PayPal's recently acquired payment processor TIO Networks says that the data of up to 1.6 million customers was stolen in a recent data breach.

Australia and the National Broadband Network are the “odd one out” as internationally there is a rapid development of wholesale-only providers who, in general, are building fibre-only networks aimed at the emerging market of the gigabit society, according to a telecoms analyst.

NetComm Wireless is claiming a “world first” development of a Network Connection Device (NCD), and says it has secured its first customer – NBN Co – with the device to be used with the National Broadband Network fibre-to-the curb (FttC) project.

Optus Business will provide telecommunications and managed services to Hastings Deering, the main Caterpillar dealer in Queensland and the Northern Territory, under a three-year whole-of-business ICT deal agreed on Monday.

We're seeing a boom in Wi-Fi as businesses increasingly move to the adoption of wireless networking strategies, according to a senior enterprise technology director at networking giant Cisco.

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