The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be introducing changes to the regulation of restricted content available online and via mobile premium services next week, even after an overwhelming negative response from the media and industry.
The controller of BBC2 has said he intends to make the channel the first mainstream TV station to broadcast via broadband.
Bound by an arcane tangle of laws and rulings about copyrights in radio broadcasting, Webcasters are facing the sober reality that before the end of the year, they will be forced to hand over a chunk of revenue to the recording industry in exchange for the rights to broadcast over the Net.
The consumer electronics industry yesterday signalled that Australia's digital broadcasting roll-out is in need of a boost.
Interactive digital television will only become a sustainable product if it's fully entrenched into broadcasting practices and deregulated by the government, according to veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.
Might I suggest that the government, which so far has handled the issue with kid gloves, take a chance for once and reach over and just pull the digital TV plug?
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
What a difference a decade makes.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation plans to integrate Intel's Itanium family of processors into its IT department -- despite a general lack of popularity for the platform.
For all its publicised benefits, why is iTV still having such a hard time making it in Australia?
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?
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Will Foxtel iQ revolutionise the way we watch TV?
Mustek's DV3000 multifunctional digital video camera will fit in your pocket without burning a hole in it. Is it too good to be true? Find out in our Australian review.
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New online movie service won't work with Mac. Will Apple get left out of the digital revolution?
The old adage "good things come in small packages" certainly applies to the QNAP TS-409, a silver and black cube whose small dimensions sport a raft of features.
Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?
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