Internet advocacy group the Electronic Frontiers Association has welcomed the move to restrict legal network interception to government and law enforcement agencies.
The head of the US Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules on Monday that would require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally.
Open source advocate and former Linux Australia president Pia Waugh today revealed she will be leaving her business and joining the staff of Senator Kate Lundy as a policy advisor.
The Federal Government has been told by lobbying group GetUp to abandon its internet filtering plans, following the decision of a second internet service provider to withdraw from a planned trial.
Facing a federal complaint from a leading privacy advocacy organisation and a revolt of tens of thousands of its users, Facebook this week backed down from what many have seen as an onerous privacy policy.
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.
What Gershon proposes is nothing more or less than a wide-scale, transformational change program. These unfortunately, rarely meet with complete success.
Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News.
Though Apple's success has made Steve Jobs' name well-known in many a household, few know much about co-founder Steve Wozniak. But, says Seb Janacek, "the Woz" played at least as crucial a role in shaping the PC industry as Jobs.
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With so many companies focused on major IT-driven transformation, it's easy to forget that even small changes can have a big benefit. For road motoring group NRMA Motoring & Services, however, a highly focused middleware implementation project has provided a new communications channel for hearing-impaired customers.
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The Norwegian company says that rendering glitches with Microsoft's MSN site show that the software giant is undermining its browser--just a year after locking it out altogether.
Aiming to boost its fortunes in the education market, Apple has unveiled the eMac, an all-in-one computer similar to the original iMac, as well as a line of new PowerBooks.
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