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  • 26/11/2009

    Conroy promises filter report in "due course"

    A month after admitting to receiving the ISP filtering live trial report, the office of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has committed to releasing it in "due course".

  • 26/11/2009

    When will Conroy release filter report?

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will likely release a censored version of Enex Testlabs' report into the technical feasibility of ISP-level internet filtering, in an attempt to minimise the fallout on his political career.

  • 25/11/2009

    Govt cuts ties with Future Fund

    Federal finance minister Lindsay Tanner says the government will beef up the independence of the Future Fund to remove doubt over its ability to make its own decisions, particularly on Telstra.

  • 25/11/2009

    Malcolm Turnbull's ghost twitterer

    At the Sydney Media140 conference several weeks ago, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull admitted he doesn't personally post all the tweets from his Twitter account &mdash sometimes his staff do it for him. But is this the right thing to do?

  • 23/11/2009

    Sydney Ignite 3: Videos

    October 8 marked the third installment of Sydney Ignite, a night of presentations with the unique format of 20 slides shown in 5 mintues with each slide automatically changing after 15 seconds. You can now watch, in no particular order, eleven presentations from the night.

  • 20/11/2009

    Why an iPod beats Chrome OS

    Google announced the open-sourcing of its Chrome OS early this morning, and the search giant was very clear in explaining its target market for Chrome OS devices: this is a companion device, not a primary desktop machine. But is a Chrome OS netbook intrinsically better than a lowly iPod?

  • 20/11/2009

    Telstra working on iPhone tethering

    Telstra has revealed it is considering plans to allow customers to tether their Apple iPhones.

  • 19/11/2009

    Fedora 12: Screenshot gallery

    Fedora is Red Hat's younger, more community-driven desktop-centric distribution. ZDNet.com.au grabbed the ISOs hot out of the oven to see what Fedora 12 was all about.

  • 19/11/2009

    NBN Co's Mike Kaiser gets $450k salary

    The salary of Mike Kaiser, the National Broadband Network Company's government relations and external affairs chief, has been outed by a senate motion started by Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin yesterday.

  • 17/11/2009

    Caption contest: Kim Carr's supercomputer

    What exactly was going on here between Carr and ANU research professor Brian Schmidt at the launch of the ANU's new supercomputer yesterday? A new martial arts move? Explanation of a star going supernova?

  • 17/11/2009

    Will ANZ Bank ever appoint a new CIO?

    Is Australia and New Zealand Banking Group suffering from a lack of strategic IT leadership as its year-long search for a new chief information officer drags on?

  • 17/11/2009

    The war on file sharing hits Australia

    Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down — the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?

  • 16/11/2009

    How much CIO pay is too much?

    How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?

  • 13/11/2009

    How dirty is Victoria Police's laundry?

    When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.

  • 13/11/2009

    All about Adobe with Ben Forta: Video

    Take one ColdFusion veteran and mix in a healthy dose of prolific book writing, and chances are you will end up with Ben Forta.

  • 12/11/2009

    CIO profile: Tony Clasquin of Bankwest

    If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".

  • 12/11/2009

    Pipe Networks sell-out an absolute travesty

    The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.

  • 11/11/2009

    Framed for child porn - by a PC virus

    Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

  • 10/11/2009

    OpenBSD 4.6: Photo gallery

    If you want security coupled with flexibility and some good old-fashioned command line action in your UNIX of choice, look no further than OpenBSD.

  • 09/11/2009

    Sydney Media140: Photo gallery

    Sydney's first ever Media140 conference, held at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) studios, drew around 300 academics, journalists and media enthusiasts to discuss the benefits and risks that professionals face in using open social networks, such as Twitter.

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