The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned online traders that they must comply with the same laws that apply to their real-world counterparts, following release of an online survey revealing that many sites are denying customers their legal rights.
The government plans to reform Australia's 20 year old privacy laws so they are better placed to deal with the Internet age, according to Senator John Faulkner, who highlighted issues such as social networking sites and online retailers.
ACT Government service provider InTACT is due to leap up the list of Australia's biggest ICT users with the addition of the capital's Department of Education and Training to its client list.
The ACT Department of Education and Training has selected Australian assembler Optima as its exclusive supplier of PC hardware and services for the next four years.
Australia's anti-spam watchdog has lauded the effectiveness of the Spam Act 2003, but warned international efforts and moves to combat the "fusion of spam, fraud and cybercrime" must be stepped up.
Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
Sometimes, a well-placed and well-timed letter can make all the difference. Other times, it can make no difference at all and even hurt your case. This week's missive by the Competitive Carriers' Coalition, I would suggest, falls into the latter category.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
The mobile market in India, I recently learned, is racing towards 300 million -- and doing so at a rate of 8.77 million new subscribers per month, according to the latest government figures.
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The Spam Act 2003 has led to the closure of several major Australian-based spammers, the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) claimed today.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
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Studio 321 is pushing ahead with new DVD-copying software despite an imminent ruling on its legality under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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