The best plans, the hidden costs, and is it really the best broadband deal on the market?

After years of waiting, the PIPE PPC-1 fibre-optic link stretching from Sydney via Guam, is going live. In a big win for consumers of some ISPs, a new era of cheaper plans and bigger data allowances may await

The Mayan prophecy might be counting down, but the science behind the new film 2012 might leave a few people confused. We look at what the film got right and what is best left to conspiracy theorists.

Fancy saving $10 a month on your Naked ADSL2+ but with twice the standard Data Block allowance? Internode are giving their customers an early Christmas present.

After facing two straight years of financial losses, VOIP provider Engin are reportedly gearing up to launch Naked DSL, in a last ditch effort to attract customers.

Telstra has completed the 100Mbit upgrade to their Melbourne cable network and are next planning to get 30Mbit speeds into the rest of the country; but first they'll need to dispel those endless NBN comparisons

iSuggest, Record Me, 12 new SD channels, 15 new HD channels, new plan pricing, IQ formatting changes and more time-shift options are all expected to be phased in over the next month.

Internode have jumped into the wireless 3G market with two low-end, budget priced data plans, piggybacking on the Optus network.

Internode are giving their customers a very early Christmas present – a free speed upgrade and double the download quota for 1500k ADSL plans. But will it be enough?

The British Government has been trialing an unusual program designed to keep tabs on problem families by installing CCTV cameras in 2000 homes, and plans for 20,000 more on the way.

Two college buddies were handed a $26,000 bill for trying to break the world record for text messaging by sending 217,000 messages in a month on a supposedly "unlimited" plan.

But unlike MySpace or Facebook, parents or guardians will be contacted personally to verify the identity of every young person who joins the new Livewire website.

You can now host a wireless network anywhere you can receive a Telstra NextG signal. Great idea, now about those data plans . . .

Official pricing for Internode's Naked DSL product has been released on their website today.

A "bonus" 1GB of data and a chance to double your download limit are two ways Telstra is hoping to attract more of the prepaid wireless crowd

Internode have just announced they will be cutting some of the prices and fees on their newly released VOIP plans.

Will VOIP chew up your download quota? What happens to calls if your downloads get shaped? Find out here.

Manufacturers have been given the big heave-ho and told that all future netbooks must shape up to new Windows 7 OS specifications or be left on the netbook scrapheap

An ambitious European emulation project aims to digitally archive and play-all file formats from the 70's to 90s. And no, it's not a MAME copy.