Social media can make financial institutions seem less dull and better engage customers, according to officials on a panel at the AB+F Retail Financial Services Forum.

A taskforce will be set up to monitor the prevention of exposure, training and supervision of contractors working on the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout, the federal government said.

Telstra's CEO David Thodey has asserted that Telstra is responsible for asbestos issues associated with the National Broadband Network (NBN) and said there is a “zero tolerance” with contractors.

The federal government will discuss the management of asbestos sites with Telstra and unions at a crisis meeting.

Federal Employment and Workplace Relations Minister, Bill Shorten, says he's sympathetic to the setting up of a fund for workers potentially exposed to asbestos found in pipes and pits owned by Telstra.

More subscribers, networks with better coverage and devices that can be used in more countries are converging to make LTE roaming a more viable proposition, with some operators already offering such services on a limited scale and more on the way.

The Telstra Frontier 4G is the first prepaid 4G smartphone in Australia.

We unbox and take a first look at the Motorola RAZR M.

Motorola's Xoom tablet runs version 3.0 of Google's Android operating system — dubbed Honeycomb. Honeycomb is the first version of Android to be designed for use with tablets; previous versions were optimised for the smaller screens of smartphones.

CIOs and project managers talk about Agile in the trenches - the good, the bad and the ugly.