The New South Wales gaming and racing minister has lashed out at the federal government's decision not to take any regulatory action on interactive wagering and betting exchanges.
Interactive digital television will only become a sustainable product if it's fully entrenched into broadcasting practices and deregulated by the government, according to veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.
Company directors who do not ensure their IT systems are protected by an adequate disaster recovery plan are being "negligent", according to Joe Hockey, the Minister for Human Services.
The Canberra-based Academy of Interactive Entertainment will open a Melbourne campus next year, with the Victorian government contributing AU$150,000 towards the start-up costs.
The Senate has passed a bill which places a moratorium on the granting of new online gambling licences in Australia but some say it will do nothing to deter Internet gambling.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
As the NBN bypasses the airwaves and offers a new pipe into 90 per cent of Australia's homes, could long-languishing IPTV services spell the beginning of the end for TV as we know it?
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'.
In light of the unpatched IE zero day, AusCERT has cautiously advised organisations to "consider" using an alternative browser; or even kill browsing altogether. For organisations with locked down computers, is it time to support two browsers?
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A new Goldman Sachs report reinforces the market's conclusion that, whatever the National Broadband Network looks like, it is going to have to be taxpayer-funded and the cheques will be massive.
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The maker of graphics chips rejoins a benchmark testing program after a dustup over allegedly rigged results.
The benchmark software company drops its allegation that graphics card maker Nvidia fudged results, ending the dispute between the two companies.
A software maker that specializes in tools for measuring performance of PC components has accused graphics chip giant Nvidia of manipulating test results for its latest graphics chip.
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