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    Internet Industry Association CEO Peter Coroneos spoke in a doorstop in front of the Federal Court about what the internet industry thought about iiNet's win against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.

  • Vic govt: Government 2.0 due this year

    In response to a report on opening up government information, the Victorian Government has said that the base work for opening up its information, also called Government 2.0, will be laid out this year, with the default position being that all information should be accessible.

  • Govt 2.0 report 'lacks purpose and aim'

    The Government 2.0 Taskforce report, released late last year, had "analytical weaknesses" and read like it had been "written by a machine", according to an IT analyst.

  • CommSec fined $55K for spamming

    Commonwealth Bank subsidiary CommSec has been slapped on the wrist by the Australian Media and Communications Authority after complaints that it had been sending unwanted messages to customers.

  • Oracle explains Sun to Aussies in April

    After laying out its plans for its newly completed Sun acquisition to a worldwide audience via webcast, Oracle now intends to hold international tours explaining the integration of the companies to customers and partners.

Blogs (75)

  • Read the blog post - Ben Grubb

    Govt, hurry up with releasing data

    A programmer scraped data from the My School website to make some really cool heat maps showing regions of smart schools no thanks to the government, which didn't supply the data in any useful kind of format.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Is 42 no longer Telstra's answer to everything?

    Telstra has proven corporate memory to be short indeed, this week launching an 8Mbps peak-rated data card that it claims to be "the fastest wireless internet device of its type". But has the company forgotten about its own 21Mbps data card, launched a year ago? Or is it intentionally backing away from misleading references to Next-G's 42Mbps design speed and its argument that wireless can replace landline services?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The people's NBN, now with 1001 uses

    Faced with a renewed threat in newly-appointed Tony Abbott and unknown-quantity communications portfolio ankle-biter Tony Smith, Stephen Conroy responded this week in the way any politician would: he gave lots, and lots, and lots of speeches.

  • Read the blog post - Jacquelyn Holt

    G'Day USA: Aussie start-ups head to America

    The G'Day USA: Australia Week campaign today announced the finalists for the Innovation Shoot Out event, which will see eight Australian technology start-ups travel to San Francisco in January 2010 to demonstrate the commercial viability of their products in the US.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Can not-so-smart meters help the NBN?

    It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.

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  • iiNet's Malone: Victory portrait

    It's 11am in the morning and the chief executive of Australia's third-largest internet service provider iiNet is striding around his company's Sydney offices, his eyes alight with passion and a big smile on his face.

  • Zombie Generation: The spreading infection

    Standard online safety precautions aren't saving society from increasingly sophisticated networks of infected computers under the control of criminal hackers also known as zombies, a fact which is forcing internet bodies to stronger action.

  • Round-up: Network endpoint security suites

    Data and computer system assets are fast becoming the lifeblood of modern interconnected business. How is your business protected?

  • Govt seeks NBN investment advisor

    The Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) is on the hunt for investment advisors to assist it in assessing commercial agreements that the NBN Co may make.

  • McKinsey's NBN bloc demands scrutiny

    McKinsey's growing influence on the National Broadband Network Company is a concerning fact that should continue to be closely scrutinised.

Videos (9)

  • Ben Forta: All about Adobe

    Take one ColdFusion veteran and mix in a healthy dose of prolific book writing, and chances are you will end up with Ben Forta.

  • Google CEO Eric Schmidt

    Google's chief sits down for an extremely rare, wide-ranging interview and discusses Google's two operating systems, government scrutiny, and, of course, evil.

  • NICTA: The budget will hurt innovation

    David Skellern, CEO of NICTA said the Federal Government's AU$707 million slash of Commercial Ready, a SME grants program that subsidised innovation and commercialisation, will be a significant blow to innovation in Australia.

  • Avoid tech-centric business cases, says Gartner

    Many CIOs develop business cases for a project that are too tech-centric. Gartner's Marcus Blosch reckons CIOs should couch arguments for technology within the business' commercial objectives to prise open the purse strings and get the project off the ground.

  • Ellison reflects on Oracle history

    At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison shares his insights into the company's 30-year history, including its contract with the CIA to build the first commercial relational database.

Reviews (277)

  • How effective is endpoint security?

    Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.

  • Google Wave

    Developers make good stress testers, and the initial Wave service has had a lot of testing in the last few months. We take a ride on the wave, which should be opening to a wider beta program at the end of September.

  • The best VoIP solution is ...

    The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.

  • WordPress 2.8

    If you are in the market for a blogging platform, content management system or a complete web platform, you can do far, far worse than choose WordPress.

  • The best CRM suite is...

    What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.

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