• 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.

• 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.

• Raising the mid-market ICT bar

  There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.

• Are clueless politicians holding IT back?

  The level of ignorance from Australian politicians about technology can be staggering. Here's some of the worst examples we've seen, and a short recipe for resolving the issue.

• iiNet's copyright crucible heats up

  The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) hunt for Australia's third largest internet service provider iiNet is set to resume on Monday, with all eyes on its managing director Michael Malone as he takes the stand.

• Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

  Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it — Telstra — and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

• Optus Wireless: Now cheaper, sort of

  Optus is now offering its wireless broadband plans cheaper, but only for the first 12 months.

• Come to our reader Christmas party!

  All ZDNet.com.au readers are invited to our first annual reader Christmas party, to be held on 9 December, kicking off from 6pm at Maloney's Hotel in Sydney's central business district.

• Conroy on Minchin's 'Luddite' delays

  This afternoon Communications Minister Stephen Conroy described his opposite, Senator Nick Minchin, as a Luddite as he took questions from reporters on the Opposition's attempt to block the government's wide-ranging telecommunications industry reform legislation, which includes provisions to force the break-up of Telstra.

• Court tweets sustained but paper still lurks

  The seemingly steeped-in-tradition Federal Court surprised a few observers last week when it coolly accepted Twitter's presence in its rooms. But its broader approach to technology is nothing short of ambiguous.

• iiTrial: AFACT v iiNet timeline

  The court case between internet service provider iiNet and a number of movie studios represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) is grabbing attention as the pair war about who's responsible for Australians downloading pirated content on the internet. This interactive timeline presents a complete history of the trial.

• Alcatel-Lucent's blatant NBN pitch

  There's a certain ridiculousness to Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband Network video production that goes to the heart of an obvious worry that it will ultimately be left out when the cheques are signed.

• ACS filter report just what Conroy needs

  Yesterday's report from the Australian Computer Society's Filtering and E-Security Task Force will be a handy weapon in Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's battle over internet censorship.

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