The nation’s number two telco Optus has pledged to upgrade the data speed of its entire third-generation (3G) national mobile network by the end of May 2007.

Deepfish was introduced in preview this week at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego..

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THE dollar was weaker this morning but was poised to rise again this afternoon on new credit data.

AUSTRALIAN stocks were up at midday tracking in line with Wall Street.

SUNRAYSIA Television Ltd says WIN Corp Pty Ltd has made an offer of $146.2 million for its sole broadcasting asset, Channel Nine Perth.

EUROPEAN stock exchanges rallied overnight, powered by a better-than-expected report on US fourth quarter growth and positive corporate news.

US shares ended mostly higher overnight after an upward revision to US economic growth helped ease fears about a slowdown and prompted bargain hunting.

CRUDE oil prices hit new 2007 highs overnight after Iran decided against releasing a female British sailor detained with 14 male colleagues in the Gulf.

Western Australia’s Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI) has revealed its Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail system is suffering frequent outages that are creating a risk of embarrassing public data loss.