Internet coverage of this year's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras will be delivered by Optus.

Telstra has taken a significant step forward to completing its agreement to participate in the NBN with the lodgement today of a revised structural separation undertaking (SSU) with the ACCC.

Funding, resource and skill constraints are holding back government agencies in the Asia Pacific region from developing sustainable ICT capabilities, according to one leading analyst firm, although it suggests that mature, enterprise-grade cloud services provide a potential solution to the dilemma faced by the agencies.

If you think you’re a mobile data glutton today, just wait until 2016. Networking giant Cisco believes that by 2016 the average user will consume 2.4 Gb of data per month via mobile devices.

UPDATE: Outage appears over for now. Original intro: You'd think the biggest news for today would be the death match between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, but an apparent Telstra outage may well eclipse the two politicians as a story of much greater significance to the everyday Australian.

Macquarie Telecom (ASX: MAQ), has lifted profits for the half year ending 31 December 2011 by 13.8 percent from the previous corresponding period to $11.1m and "a record EBITDA result" of $21.1m on revenues of $112.2m, down slightly on the previous corresponding period.

The Australian National University in Canberra has completed the installation of a high performance private data cloud storage solution from SGI tailored for the needs of its research and corporate users, and for its national computing role in National Computational Infrastructure, Australia’s national peak computing partnership which includes CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and Geoscience Australia.

Oft times, when I have raised the issue of Canonical, the parent company of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, focusing on making money, there have been murmurs of disapproval.

The PS Vita is now available at, most, retail stores across Australia.  Here are the official details.

Universal interoperability between videoconferencing systems has come one step closer: several of the world's largest telcos have teamed up with major telco infrastructure and videoconferencing vendors to exploit cellular networking standards to deliver interoperability between videoconferencing endpoints.

A variant of the Zeusbot/Spyeye malware has done away with the need for a command and control server, presenting a challenge for future takedown efforts.

It might not be BlackBerry’s “Defence Department” trusted level of email, but the PlayBook finally gets its OS 2.0 and native email, calendaring and more, adding a new lease of life to RIM’s trim tablet.

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Today's new world of computer science met the old recently when senior executives from the CSIRO’s ICT Centre paid a visit to the University of Melbourne to see CSIRAC, Australia’s first and the world’s fourth programmable electronic digital computer, built in 1949 by a CSIRO team led by Dr Trevor Pearcey, after whom the Pearcey Foundation was named.

Increasing use of IP-based social messaging services by consumers on their smartphones cost telecom operators $13.9 billion last year alone, according to one analyst firm, and it expects the losses to mount further as the popularity of messaging apps continues to grow.

By the end of 2012, Dutch scientists hope to have developed the world’s first hamburger grown entirely in a laboratory, what could be called the lab-burger.

iiNet bragged this week about "record half year earnings with growth across key financial and operating metrics." However one market analyst sees the results in a very different light.

Listed IT services company, Empired, has had a major boost to its management team by grabbing a number of high profile senior executives from other companies in the IT sector which it says will allow it to significantly accelerate its growth plans in the Australian market.

Brennan IT has scored a double, with recognition both in Australia and worldwide, by the MSPmentor 100 Global Edition report, as the number one Australian managed services provider and the fourth top provider globally.

Apple has confirmed that it will be building another data centre, this time in Prineville, Oregon.

The Government has imposed penalties of up to almost $1m on telcos for failing to meet the standards of performance set by the retail customer service guarantee and the Universal Service Obligation (which will apply only to Telstra at present).