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• Telstra may not allow government to call its lawyers

  The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has issued a tender for the provision of substantial legal assistance ahead of the rollout of the national fibre-to-the-node network, but it may have a hard time finding a taker.

• Government yields on device spying bill

  The Federal Government has abandoned plans to grant law enforcement agencies unfettered freedom to intercept communications from multiple devices that are not listed in a warrant, yielding to pressure exerted by the privacy lobby.

• Australia needs ID-theft laws: Minister

  The Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Bob Debus has encouraged state and territory governments to introduce new laws to combat identity theft but observers have cast doubt over their potential effectiveness.

• NSW throws itself on the mercy of the e-court

  After a prolonged but successful trial, the NSW Attorney-General has officially launched JusticeLink, an online judicial network allowing lawyers and judges to engage in some court hearings and proceedings over the Internet.

• CSIRO wants to bring order to its law

  The CSIRO, Australia's largest scientific research association, has issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) notice this week seeking vendors to provide a new legal matter management software system for its legal department, but representatives are remaining tight-lipped on the contract.

Blogs (24)

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  That sinking Tcard feeling

  There's something terribly unsettling about realising that the NSW Government is considering hiring a company to build a new electronic ticketing system which has already put it through the legal wringer for the system's predecessor.

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  Is Conroy backpedalling on separation mandate?

  Now that Minister Stephen Conroy has played his hand regarding Telstra's separation, the hard part begins.

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  Telstra: We hear separation rumours

  Is the government manoeuvring towards a structural separation of Telstra?

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  Broadband hearing unplugged (day 1)

  Earlier this week (Tuesday 3 March) a number of telecommunications industry heavyweights fronted up to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.

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  Gutless studios have the wrong target

  I have one word for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Gutless.

Features and Case Studies (159)

• Corporate governance: CIOs get thinking

  Corporate collapses and highly publicised financial mismanagement has been making headlines in 2002. But do issues about corporate governance affect the way Australian CIOs and IT managers make decisions?

• Microsoft-SCO: Fact and fiction

  Is Microsoft funding the SCO Group's legal fight against Linux? ZDNet hopes to shed some light and answer common questions swirling around the duo's relationship.

• Has Microsoft gone soft?

  When you're the industry's 800-pound gorilla, what's a few billion dollars to pay for problems to disappear?

• Can Sun-Microsoft cease-fire halt the war?

  Scott McNealy spent years sniping at the "evil empire" of Bill Gates. Now, a more customer-centric approach unites the archrivals, forcing them to bury the hatchet.

• Telstra between a rock and the ACCC?

  The proposed regulatory reforms ahead of the roll-out of the National Broadband Network rely on a finely balanced carrot and stick approach. But will Telstra cooperate with the government's ultimatum?

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  Mac clone -- out of the box: Psystar Open Computer

  While the desktop is still legal, Rich Brown unboxes the first Mac clone in years: the Psystar Open Computer.

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  Is Google sharing your information with US govt?

  Google CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday admitted that the US government has made "requests" for the search giant to share information about its users and he said Google would comply if the requests were legal.

Reviews (42)

• Corel debuts new WordPerfect

  The company is releasing the new version of its WordPerfect office software, but analysts say it's unlikely to make much headway against Microsoft Office.

• Japan to animate robot industry

  The Japanese government is set to invest heavily in setting up a robotics industry, in a move that could speed up the development of futuristic devices such as robots that could nurse and entertain people, or carry out dangerous tasks.

• Intel, Red Hat cure open-source hiccup

  Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.

• Corel WordPerfect Office 11

  Current WordPerfect customers should certainly upgrade to Office 11.0. But SOHO users won't need some of the functionality.

• Do you copy? Over and out.

  Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.

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