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Optus has announced an overhaul to its SIM-only iPad 2 plans, extending expiry periods on many pricing tiers and increasing data allowances.

Apple Australia has announced pricing for the Apple iPad 2 will start from AU$579 when it goes on sale at 5PM this Friday 25th of March from the company’s own retail stores as well as local third-party resellers

Analyst firm IDC yesterday crowned HP the king of Australia’s PC market, saying that a quarter of machines shipped over the last three months of 2010 in Australia were from HP.

Australians woke up to the news this morning that the next generation of the Apple of Steve Jobs’ eye will hit local shores on 25 March - a new tablet to salve our compulsive need for the latest technology and a new colour scheme to make sure nobody is in any doubt that we have the latest model.

Global technology giant HP has poured a dash of cold water on the hopes of Australians keen to get their hands on its flagship tablet device launched yesterday, noting that the tablet wouldn’t be coming down under until a range of other countries such as the US, Canada, Spain and even Mexico had it first.

Mobile telco VHA last night confirmed it would be bringing Google’s Nexus S handset to Australia, although the date of the local launch and pricing details remain under wraps for now.

Wireless telco vividwireless has unveiled minor changes to its broadband plan range, boosting download quotas across the board and bundling voice services into its offering.

Yesterday, local analyst firm IDC published a research report noting that although Apple was still growing strongly, it was Google’s mobile operating system Android that was expanding its turf the fastest.

After winning a number of significant deals with Australian telcos over the past half decade since it entered Australia, Huawei this week flagged plans to establish itself as a consumer brand down under in its own right.

Almost four months after iiNet and others shook up the market with what were dubbed Australia’s first terabyte broadband plans, the nation’s second-largest telco has come to the party, updating its offerings to bring it into the terabyte league.

ViewSonic has unveiled plans to shortly bring its 7-inch and 10-inch ViewPad tablet devices to Australia.

Until now, the Australian iBookstore carried mainly out-of-copyright content. But, with half a dozen major publishers coming on board, buying digital books through Apple just got much more interesting.

Telstra’s T-Touch Tab may not compare well to Apple’s iPad, but for AU$299, it may not have to be.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia last night gave several indications it wasn’t willing to let its flagship HTC Desire HD handset be used on other carriers’ networks, confirming it would have exclusive Australian distribution “forever” and that it would not offer an outright purchase price for the device.

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia this morning revealed that it would sell its flagship N8 handset through all of Australia’s three major mobile telcos - Telstra, Optus and VHA - for $749 upfront from 1 November.

Telstra has promised a bug fix this Thursday to customers upset with the patchy performance of its T-Hub next-generation fixed telephone system.

The University of Adelaide will hand out free iPads to students enrolling in a science degree in 2011, claiming the new Apple tablets will revolutionise the way science is taught at the institution.

Optus yesterday afternoon revealed that it would re-badge its mobile networks as ‘The Open Network’ in an effort to position it as “an essential resource” for customers.

Internode has become the latest internet service provider (ISP) to launch an ADSL broadband plan featuring a terabyte of broadband quota.

Chinese manufacturer Huawei late yesterday said it was talking to carriers in Australia and New Zealand about local distribution of its new Ideos mobile phone, which runs the latest version of Google’s Android operating system.