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.
Web hosting companies, Internet service providers (ISPs) and hosting service providers (HSPs) are implementing automation software and advanced networking tools that will allow them to house hundreds of virtual environments on a single physical server.
As Napster's heyday fades into Internet mythology, its influence is being etched in an increasingly tense game of cops and robbers that has Internet service providers caught in the crossfire.
The Australian Communication Authority has released draft ISP guidelines for disclosing service information to potential customers, but is yet to finalise information that will be used to judge provider performance.
Surveying the future of the Internet and Web services, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos warns against a universal identity system that plays favourites.
IIA CEO Peter Coroneos, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, Bravehearts executive director Hetty Johnston and Internode chief Simon Hackett have their say on the government's controversial internet content filter in the latest Twisted Wire podcast.
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When broadband providers offer packages that you think look to good to be true, you're rarely disappointed.
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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.
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.
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 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?
ISP-level content filtering won't work, according to three of Australia's largest internet service providers.
NetComm have offered a small scale DSLAM designed for hotels, serviced apartments or serviced offices. We found it to be a very robust device which is easy to deploy and manage.
The Internet is in the process of taking over our lives, so if you aren't connected, maybe it is time you were.
According to market researchers, as the new millennium arrives, widespread free Internet access will arrive with it. Both Dataquest and Datamonitor are predicting that the year 2000 will bring on the era of free Internet access that many technology pundits have been predicting for years.
A subsidiary of electronics maker Sony is to sell downloadable movie files that self-destruct after a given time.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
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