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  • Children's liberties groups protest filter

    A number of Australian children's civil liberties and other groups have launched a significant protest against the Federal Government's plans to censor the internet through a filtering scheme.

  • UK makes its own broadband splash

    The UK government has laid out its vision for the digital future of Britain over the coming years, covering topics such as broadband access, security, ICT literacy and copyright enforcement.

  • Govt details NBN advisor needs

    The Federal Government yesterday kicked off its search for a lead adviser to deliver the nine-month implementation study that will map out the future of its $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) project.

  • CASA flys to ASG in $8m deal

    Western Australian ASX-listed IT services firm ASG today confirmed it had won the Federal Government Civil Aviation Safety Authority's managed services deal over incumbent Darwin-based supplier CSG.

  • Group 8 moves on post-Commander

    The Group 8 cluster of federal agencies that signed a collective IT outsourcing arrangement with Commander-owned Volante in 2000 are moving on as the contract nears its end on 26 June.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy scraps filter blacklist

    Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Does Conroy's FUD make a Ludd of Rudd?

    Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN needs workers on board

    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could you believe in Steve?

    For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Embracing the 'F' word

    The world changes fast and many enterprises large and small fail to see the next wave or see it and dismiss it.

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  • Understanding Trujillo

    Sol Trujillo has, not for the first time and perhaps not for the last, ignited a furore, this time over his charge that Australians are racist. While his broader comments mischaracterise a country generally welcoming to people of different cultural backgrounds, there is also some validity to them when it comes to the way he was treated during his stint here.

  • A chat with Fake Stephen Conroy

    ZDNet.com.au presents the man behind the Twitter account: Fake Stephen Conroy lays out his digital agenda. And kitten-fishing.

  • British Airways CIO: the interview

    British Airways chief information officer Paul Coby can justifiably claim more than most of his peers to have had a tough time coping with the economic slowdown and cuts in IT budgets.

  • 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.

  • FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deal's antitrust scrutiny

    Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.

Reviews (8)

  • Acer Aspire 9504

    Acer's Aspire 9504 incorporates a lot of empowering technology, although its chief TV offering is rather weak.

  • Wi-Fi system 'safe', says Boeing

    An aircraft cabin is a 'challenging environment' for a wireless LAN, but Boeing is confident that they can make it secure.

  • Study: mobile phones put planes at risk

    The U.K.'s air safety regulator has released research about mobile phone use on planes, warning of the serious effects that it can have on navigational equipment.

  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

  • Frequent fliers: The biometric guinea pigs

    Before he starts work every day, Oscar Carranza places his hand in a biometric scanner that traces the contours of his palm and compares them to digital records in the airport's central database.

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