A high-level European vote on communications legislation will take place on Monday evening, raising fears that alleged file-sharers will be denied internet access by their internet service providers.
An Internet company trade association sent a letter to the Recording Industry Association of America, asking for information and dialogue over issues related to the subpoenas being issued for file-swappers' identities.
At the core of Napster's proposed subscription model is an idea so simple the record companies should fall all over themselves adopting it: Make other people pay for millions of dollars in costs the labels pick up today.
The latest Bureau of Statistics figures show the number of Internet subscribers in Australia rose to 3.9 million at the end of the December quarter, but there were 7,000 fewer household Internet accounts.
Surveying the future of the Internet and Web services, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos warns against a universal identity system that plays favourites.
It's been 345 years since physicist Robert Boyle published the experimental results confirming what is now known as Boyle's Law, which to paraphrase is: a gas will spread out to fill any available space.
When broadband providers offer packages that you think look to good to be true, you're rarely disappointed.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
Internode has no incentive to provide free access to its Wi-Fi networks for any reason at all, apart from genuine love, and maybe the joy of finding a new way to flip Telstra the bird.
What would you do if you ran an online backup service that offered unlimited storage, and a few dozen of your customers ended up storing more than a terabyte of data each?
The debate over the relationship between ISPs, customers, and Internet security is definitely a complicated one, but who should bear the responsibility for protecting users online?
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
Kimmo Alkio takes stock of the current state of hackers, attackers, dot-bank domains and mobile phone viruses.
Australia's first pure wireless Internet service provider launched its commercial broadband Internet service in Sydney today, claiming full independence from Telstra-owned telephony infrastructure.
A subsidiary of electronics maker Sony is to sell downloadable movie files that self-destruct after a given time.
NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway provides an easy set-up, good coverage and modest speed. While this system gives you the advantage of portable wireless gateway, wireless services are less reliable and cannot match ADSL2 speeds.
Adobe's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.
The BlackBerry 8707g is reasonably zippy and easy-to-use, but lacks many common smartphone features like Wi-Fi and microSD memory expansion.
The Internet is in the process of taking over our lives, so if you aren't connected, maybe it is time you were.
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