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  • NSW slams feds' online betting exchanges stance

    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.

  • Make room for digital TV: Budde

    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.

  • Inadequate disaster recovery is negligence: Hockey

    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.

  • Second school for AU games and animation developers

    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.

  • Senate blocks Net gaming

    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.

Blogs (4)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

    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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Will the NBN kill digital TV as we know it?

    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?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy scraps filter blacklist

    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'.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    IE zero day: Money v tubes? Choose one

    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?

Features and Case Studies (124)

  • I want my iTV

    For all its publicised benefits, why is iTV still having such a hard time making it in Australia?

  • Aust broadband--push or pull?

    A major question for Australia is whether the rollout of broadband should be on the basis of a push (from the service providers) or a pull (from the users)-or both.

  • NBN will require a govt blank cheque

    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.

  • 10 ideas for Australian ICT policy

    There is currently a great deal of gloom and doom about the state of the Australian ICT sector. Here's 10 ideas for moving ahead.

  • Australian Tax Office: Bill Gibson, CIO

    Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax office, spoke to ZDNet.com.au about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together.

Reviews (33)

  • I want my iTV

    For all its publicised benefits, why is iTV still having such a hard time making it in Australia?

  • What's the best blade server?

    Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.

  • Nvidia rejoins testing program

    The maker of graphics chips rejoins a benchmark testing program after a dustup over allegedly rigged results.

  • Futuremark drops Nvidia cheat charge

    The benchmark software company drops its allegation that graphics card maker Nvidia fudged results, ending the dispute between the two companies.

  • Nvidia accused of fudging tests

    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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