Telstra has dumped its controversial $2.20 administration fee for people paying their bills over the counter or by mail less than two months after it was introduced.
Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy has won the support of the Greens, independent Nick Xenophon and Family First's Steven Fielding to have the government's telecommunications reform legislation debated before the end of the year.
Internet advocacy group the Electronic Frontiers Association has welcomed the move to restrict legal network interception to government and law enforcement agencies.
If Telstra does not voluntarily structurally separate, a new telecommunications reform package will permit the government to impose an oppressive functional separation framework on it, the Federal Government announced today.
The Australian Competition Tribunal's (ACT) decision to wind back regulated access to Telstra's wholesale network has outraged the telecommunications sector.
Last year I opined that, even if Telstra did launch Apple's iPhone 3G, conflicting goals meant it couldn't afford to seriously back the product. This year, Telstra proved me right, and the reason is simple: Australia's biggest telco just wants to be a Mac.
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
A government e-mail systems lockdown has kept popular BlackBerry handhelds off-limits at many Australian government departments, but a simple fix has changed that.
Countries including the UK and the US are putting biometrics at the forefront of plans to improve national border security but there are still significant issues to be solved before the technology is up to the job.
A work productivity survey has revealed that about 17 hours out of a 45-hour work week is generally unproductive. The main culprit -- procrastination.
Norton AntiVirus 2010 builds on the immense progress made in last year's version, maintaining a low system profile while strengthening its security framework. It's not perfect, but even Symantec's detractors should check it out.
Norton Internet Security 2010 builds on the immense progress it made in last year's version, maintaining a low system profile while strengthening its security framework. It's not perfect, but even Symantec's detractors should check it out.
Enforcing the acceptable use of business computers is often a tricky business. Policy Central Enterprise is an application that offers to help manage an AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) by placing the onus on individual users.
You think spam techniques are driving you mad now... just take a look at what's in store.
The Korean government has ruled that by next year, domestic manufacturers must ensure that mobile phones emit a loud shutter-like click or noise when the camera is activated.
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