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    Childnet International and Tiny have developed an educational programme in Internet safety for school children, parents and teachers.

  • Internet becoming safer for kids?

    A government-funded Internet safety body has launched a project to boost students and teachers' ability to avert online threats just days after a Bill to curb Internet sex crimes was introduced into the Senate.

  • Telstra mobile users get police powers

    Telstra customers will receive the same service telco companies have been providing the law authorities for years, the ability to track people's location by their mobile phone.

  • Mobile phones to detect adolescent depression

    The Murdoch Children's Research Institute is trialling a Java-based mobile application that helps with early warning-sign detection and monitoring of adolescent depression.

  • Leichhardt Council rejects Telstra tower solution

    Telstra's latest attempt to appease Leichhardt residents who are angry about its plan to build a CDMA tower close to the community's local primary school has failed.

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  • Negroponte's laptop plan moves closer to reality

    Nicholas Negroponte is a man on a mission. As Chairman of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), he has big plans ahead of him: to help eliminate poverty through education, via US$100 laptops distributed to the world's poorest children.

  • Conroy charts national broadband agenda

    The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.

  • Good bosses: Endangered species?

    From the wilds of the IT jungles, columnist Jeff Dray documents the 10 most dangerous species of IT manager. Find out if you or your manager fit into the genus described in this article.

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    The EeePC isn't for everyone in fact within about two seconds from picking it up you'll know if it's for you or not. For those it does appeal to, it's a brilliant little thing that fills a much lamented gap.

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