The Prime Minister, John Howard, has conceded that anti-terrorism legislation in many countries is antiquated and ill-equipped to cope with terrorists' exploitation of new technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones to carry out their activities.
Major record labels in Australia have finally won a legal battle against a Queensland man and his Internet Service Provider for alleged music piracy.
Allegations that former Telstra director Steve Vizard used inside information to trade shares in three technology companies will be heard by the Federal Court this month.
Australia's federal privacy commissioner, Malcolm Crompton, will combat "long-winded and confusing" privacy policies and statements.
Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby has said computer code is more potent than the law -- and legislators are powerless to do anything about it.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
More information is dribbling out about the exercise of extraordinary powers granted to federal police since Sept 11. We unmask the Patriot Act.
In this special review, we round up the various authentication devices on the market.
Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, will begin offering a higher-end and more specialised version of Linux later this year that won't be as easy to find as the current all-purpose package.
Always a contentious topic, we look at server-based Internet content filters and some of the reasons why your organisation might want one, or not.
Handset giant concedes the game-card code on its mobile phone/game deck has been "bypassed."
The choices are endless -- but do we really need everything our mobile phone sells us?
It's not Star Trek, but quantum computing looks set to revolutionise the way we do computing.
The pursuit of faster CPUs has AMD and Intel back at the core.
In the first instalment of a two-part review on thin clients, we look at thin-client terminals.
Apple drops iPhone NDA
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