The Australian Labor Party says it is committed to fast, reliable and affordable Internet for the country, and that means more fibre in whatever remains of the NBN rollout after the next election which it expects to win.

Apple's revenues for the second quarter of the current financial year rose to US$61.1 billion, a 16% rise from the corresponding quarter in the previous financial year. International sales accounted for 65% of the revenue in the quarter.

Australia will soon have a national data commissioner, with the federal government saying yesterday that this was part of its responses to the Productivity Commission's final report into Data Availability and Use.

An Australian company thinks it knows how to overcome the innate unreliability of quantum computers.

Entertainment technology provider TiVo Corporation has entered into an agreement with Telstra to license its intellectual property portfolio for devices and applications.

Telstra hopes to increase its mobile customer base, up strategic investment and cut back on costs as it gears up to become "a telco of the future", according to a presentation made by its chief financial officer, Warwick Bray.

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