The Federal Government has stifled a proposed Senate inquiry into the state of broadband competition in Australia, raising the ire of the Opposition and industry groups.
The Senate has voted to set up an inquiry into the pricing and competition regime of broadband, after the initially rejected bill was enhanced with additional terms of reference.
Telstra's licence should be amended to guarantee minimum 19.2 kbps Internet access over its fixed network and the carrier be required to address "poorly performing pair gain systems," a landmark report recommends.
The federal government has released an AU$181 million package of measures to placate rural and regional Australia's anger over telecommunications service limitations as the Telstra privatisation progresses.
An Australian civil liberties group has dubbed an inquiry into the country’s CyberCrime Bill “disappointing”, saying Committee members were “overpowered by the technical implications” of a Bill that should now be left on the table for further investigation.
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In one of the most anticipated announcements in recent years, Apple introduced the "iPhone," a mobile device that CEO Steve Jobs promised will reinvent the phone.
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Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: So-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase.
The software giant inadvertently provided developers and enterprise customers with early access to the second testing version of the next version of Office.
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