Optus chief executive officer, Kevin Russell, has admitted the customer service standard at major Australian telcos is worse than that at th…

Andrew Sadauskas is a former journalist at SmartCompany and a former editor of TechCompany.
Optus chief executive officer, Kevin Russell, has admitted the customer service standard at major Australian telcos is worse than that at th…
Earlier today, Old Taskmaster read about some new internet censorship laws – sorry, online media regulations – that have just come into …
The government of Singapore has introduced licences and tough new regulations for any websites and blogs regularly reporting on the island n…
The software growth rate in emerging markets was double that for established markets in 2012, according to new IDC figures. The figures sh…
Smartphone and tablet processors based on designs from UK-based chip design firm ARM are set to replace PC processors (including IBM’s Power…
Australia has fallen to its lowest competitiveness level relative to 60 advanced economies, according to a new IMD World Competitiveness Cen…
The other day, Old Taskmaster was on a widget sales call at a shopping centre somewhere in that vast mass of suburbia southeast of Melbourne…
Singapore Telecommunications is looking to sell off the satellite communications arm of its wholly-owned Australian subsidiary Optus, seekin…
Foxconn is set to unveil a new product running Mozilla’s Firefox OS smartphone at an event on June 3, according to Taiwanese press reports…
Telstra has announced the Australian release of the first 4G detachable ultrabook to use Windows 8, the Toshiba Portégé Z10t. The device…
Private equity firms including KKR, Carlyle Group and Eutelsat Communications are gearing up for a possible takeover bid for Optus’ satellit…
Recently, Old Taskmaster read a column in The Australian by Nick Cater echoing his recent book, The Lucky Country. Of course, even those …