Following the news a teenage boy has cracked the government's filtering software in half an hour, the Communications Minister has warned parents to be vigilant about their children's exploits online whether they use filters or not.
A 16-year-old Melbourne schoolboy has taken just 30 minutes to crack the federal government's AU$84 million dollar Internet porn filter software.
Federal Police could soon have the power to control which sites can and cannot be viewed by Australian Web surfers.
The federal government will spend AU$116.6 million in taxpayer money to provide all Australian families with free Internet pornography blocking software.
Australia's broadband market is entering an extremely competitive "land-grab" phase as providers try to secure as big a slice of the pie as possible, market researcher International Data Corp (IDC) reckons. But what about the issue of access?
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
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In the broadband war, it seems, everyone has an opinion and those with a vested interest are playing fast and loose with the truth.
In telecoms, Telstra is no 800 pound gorilla. It's an 800 pound colic-ridden infant, irritably throwing its toys out of the pram when it doesn't get its own way.
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.
With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?
When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?
Do women lack interest in IT, or is inadequate support and enduring stereotypes keeping them away?
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
The federal government today confirmed plans to make only minor tweaks to telecomms regulations to accommodate Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and forecast only low mass-market takeup of the next-generation telephony technology for the next two-three years.
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