News (97)

  • Conroy: Internet has parents out of their depth

    Parents expect the government and the tech industry to give them a hand in protecting their children from inappropriate content, according to Federal Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy.

  • ISP filtering to get Fed govt subsidy: Budget 08

    ISPs will be granted a one-off government subsidy towards the cost of installing filtering technology as part of the Rudd government's AU$125.8 million cybersafety plan.

  • Conroy's filtering can't fix Web 2.0 demons

    Web 2.0 services pose the biggest risk to Australian kids -- and current filtering technologies aren't up to the job of protecting them, according to a report released yesterday.

  • ISP porn filters now ready for testing

    Expressions of interest close today for vendors hoping to secure a contract with the Federal government and ACMA to provide an ISP-level filtering program, as part of a government effort to limit access to restricted and illegal online content.

  • Porn filters free from July

    Content filtering software -- from five vendors -- is set to become freely available from July as part of the government's program to combat offensive online content.

More News >

Blogs (1)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    No sex please, we're Labor

    The council rubbish truck didn't pick up my bin last week. Instead, the garbage contractor left a big yellow sticker highlighting exactly why my old egg shells, rancid fruit, microwave pizza boxes, an ancient and smelly pair of sneakers, and the odd brick had been left to rot on my property.

Features and Case Studies (12)

  • Can e-mail survive?

    E-mail has taken a battering over the last year or so with mountains of spam and viruses delivered to our mailboxes daily. Can the problem be fixed, and can e-mail still be free?

  • Can the Net survive filtering?

    Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain writes that the filtering of Internet content is on the upswing, a trend that--left unchecked--threatens to undo a basic underpinning of the global cybernetwork.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    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.

  • Photos: Telstra visits the doctor

    Telstra doesn't just "do telephones" according to Deena Schiff, Telstra Group MD it seems it's also got its eye on the health space. This week in Sydney, the telco has been showing off the latest health tech from its partners, including a wireless stethoscope and remote monitoring for aged and disability care.

  • The bonfire of online vanities: Web 2.0 critic speaks

    Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (15)

  • Avert your gaze! 8 filtering packages tested

    Just how good are web filtering packages? We put eight of the best head to head in our Australian review.

  • ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009

    ZoneAlarm Internet Security 2009 provides top-notch security protection that is light on system resources, allowing you to work unencumbered.

  • OLPC XO

    The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is unique as the XO laptop it distributes. While the XO is not commercially available, our review provides an insight into what can be achieved in a laptop designed for children at a very low cost.

  • ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7

    ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7 offers a balance between best-of-breed security protection and ease of use, providing the home user with superior protection that's light on system resources.

  • McAfee Total Protection 2007

    McAfee Total Protection 2007 does what it says on the label -- it protects your PC from all sorts of nasty attacks, albeit at a fairly high cost to your system performance, especially on older PCs.

More Reviews >

Create an e-mail alert for "children"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
children


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 6 acma
  2. Popularity: 3 adult
  3. Popularity: 2 ai
  4. Popularity: 5 block
  5. Popularity: 4 censor
  6. Popularity: 7 censorship
  7. Popularity: 4 child
  8. Popularity: 4 conroy
  9. Popularity: 8 content
  10. Popularity: 8 coonan
  11. Popularity: 2 copyright
  12. Popularity: 3 court
  13. Popularity: 3 declan
  14. Popularity: 14 filter
  15. Popularity: 5 filters
  16. Popularity: 7 google
  17. Popularity: 11 government
  18. Popularity: 3 hack
  19. Popularity: 2 hackers
  20. Popularity: 2 hacking
  21. Popularity: 4 helen coonan
  22. Popularity: 6 iia
  23. Popularity: 27 internet
  24. Popularity: 3 internet industry association
  25. Popularity: 10 isp
  26. Popularity: 3 isps
  27. Popularity: 3 kids
  28. Popularity: 4 labor
  29. Popularity: 4 law
  30. Popularity: 3 libraries
  31. Popularity: 3 mccullagh
  32. Popularity: 10 netalert
  33. Popularity: 3 ninemsn
  34. Popularity: 4 online
  35. Popularity: 4 p2p
  36. Popularity: 6 police
  37. Popularity: 21 porn
  38. Popularity: 10 pornography
  39. Popularity: 7 privacy
  40. Popularity: 2 regulation
  41. Popularity: 11 security
  42. Popularity: 7 software
  43. Popularity: 5 spam
  44. Popularity: 4 t&b
  45. Popularity: 3 technology
  46. Popularity: 5 us
  47. Popularity: 4 vista
  48. Popularity: 10 web
  49. Popularity: 5 windows
  50. Popularity: 2 zonealarm

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured