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  • Upstart ASG nudges the big boys

    Aussie IT services group ASG has thrown down the gauntlet publicly to its much larger international rivals as it posted steep jumps in revenue and profits for the past financial year.

  • Australia Post bans lithium batteries

    Australia Post will no longer be accepting packages that contain lithium batteries by air.

  • Children's, liberties groups protest filter

    A number of Australian children's civil liberties and other groups have launched a significant protest against the Federal Government's plans to censor the internet through a filtering scheme.

  • UK makes its own broadband splash

    The UK government has laid out its vision for the digital future of Britain over the coming years, covering topics such as broadband access, security, ICT literacy and copyright enforcement.

  • Govt details NBN advisor needs

    The Federal Government yesterday kicked off its search for a lead adviser to deliver the nine-month implementation study that will map out the future of its $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) project.

  • CASA flys to ASG in $8m deal

    Western Australian ASX-listed IT services firm ASG today confirmed it had won the Federal Government Civil Aviation Safety Authority's managed services deal over incumbent Darwin-based supplier CSG.

  • Group 8 moves on post-Commander

    The Group 8 cluster of federal agencies that signed a collective IT outsourcing arrangement with Commander-owned Volante in 2000 are moving on as the contract nears its end on 26 June.

  • Concerns raised over NSW hacking Bill

    Civil rights and privacy advocates yesterday expressed concern about a NSW Parliament proposal that would allow the state's police to remotely access a suspect's computer for up to 28 days without disclosing the hack for some time.

  • Vic railways overhaul analog systems

    The Victorian Department of Transport has signed a five-year, $150 million deal with a Nokia and Siemens consortium to upgrade its railway's antiquated analog communications system to digital.

  • Largest ISPs left out of filter list

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this afternoon announced the names of six ISPs that will participate in the Federal Government's internet filter trial but the nation's largest ISPs are not on the list.

  • Photos: Sydneysiders protest internet filtering

    Protesters came together in every major city around the country on Saturday to demonstrate against the Labor Governments' proposed internet filtering scheme. We went to the Sydney protest and spoke to some of the protesters.

  • Tanner, Conroy start blogging

    The Federal Government has taken a step into the Web 2.0 world, with Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Finance Minister Lindsey Tanner starting a Digital Economy blog to stoke the opinion fires of digital policy.

  • NSW to censor student laptops

    The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) plans to limit internet access on the laptops given to NSW's senior students under the "digital education revolution" to a pre-approved list of websites.

  • Qantas mayhem spurs Airbus response

    Plane manufacturer Airbus has issued new guidelines to carriers operating its A330 model, after Australian investigators blamed a computer fault for causing a terrifying mid-air plunge.

  • Vodafone 3G upgrade delayed to 2009

    Vodafone Australia has blamed Swedish vendor Ericsson for delays to the roll-out of its national 3G mobile network.

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