Western Australia's peak Internet service providers' body has slammed proposals by the Opposition Liberal Party to legally force ISPs to filter the Internet for adult content as "populist but ridiculous".
In what is claimed to be a world first, Australian Internet Service Providers that help to protect children from the dark side of the Net through the provision of filters will be decorated with a seal of approval, in a move to better expose code-compliant ISPs.
An Internet company trade association sent a letter to the Recording Industry Association of America, asking for information and dialogue over issues related to the subpoenas being issued for file-swappers' identities.
An unexpected new entrant to the Australian consumer computer retail channel has revealed plans to win customers by bundle broadband services and PC hardware.
ISP and Primus telecommunications subsidiary Hotkey Internet Services has expanded its presence in Victoria and NSW through the acquisition of UseOz, Blue Mountains Internet and Standard.net.
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
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The next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, has been much discussed but long in coming around the world.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
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The debate over the relationship between ISPs, customers, and Internet security is definitely a complicated one, but who should bear the responsibility for protecting users online?
Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.
There is no suggestion even by government that this filter would aid law enforcement, and nobody, including the ISPs themselves, has suggested there is any possibility that the pilot will tell a different story.
The obvious candidates for consolidation in Australia's telecommunications sector are the 170 internet service providers that are scratching to make a living, but others include Dodo, M8 Telecom, Macquarie Telecom and Eftel.
Sydney has been the host city for recent discussions between the OECD expert group on global information security, Australia's Internet Industry Association and the US Internet Industry Association on how the new security environment will impact the Internet in Australia, and how our information infrastructure can be made more secure from terrorist attacks.
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ISP-level content filtering won't work, according to three of Australia's largest internet service providers.
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.
Adobe's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.
Modem manufacturer D-Link had been distributing one of its ADSL modems to some of Telstra's largest wholesale customers without the carrier's interoperability certification for around four months.
Road warriors rejoice -- 3G data cards are bringing some long awaited speed to mobile Internet access. We take a look at offerings from the major Australian carriers.
An 802.11g wireless router with an integrated ADSL modem suitable for multiple PC homes and small offices.
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