Samsung is seeking to obtain the agreements between Apple and Australia’s three major mobile telecoms–Optus, Vodafone, and Telstra–as well as the source code for the iPhone 4S firmware as it seeks to block the sale of Apple’s newest smartphone. In a hearing today in the ongoing patent dispute between Apple and Samsung over alleged infringements …

Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization has started testing its wireless broadband technology, which uses existing TV antennas, at the first National Broadband Network roll-out site of Smithton in Tasmania. The system, named Ngara, works by installing antennas on existing TV broadcasting towers that transmit wireless broadband to households through their existing TV antennas, although slightly modified as some …

Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization tomorrow plans to unveil a breakthrough in wireless technology that will allow multiple users to upload content at the same time while maintaining a data transfer rate of 12 megabits per second (Mbps), all over their old analog TV aerial. The technology, named Ngara, allows up to six users to occupy the equivalent …