News (412)

  • Telecom NZ loyalty offers to face High Court

    Telecom NZ says it is disappointed with the New Zealand Commerce Commission's decision to issue proceedings relating to loyalty offers made by its wholesale business unit.

  • Melbourne man convicted of piracy

    A Melbourne man was yesterday found guilty on six offences relating to CD and DVD piracy in the Melbourne Magistrates Court and fined $24,000 plus prosecution costs.

  • iiNet case to hinge on 20 accounts

    The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) case against Australian ISP iiNet will now hinge on evidence contained within 20 anonymous customer accounts, Justice Cowdroy ruled in the Federal Court today.

  • Qld to build Wi-Fi into trains

    The Queensland Government has outlined plans to offer a Wi-Fi service on the state's trains as part of a roll-out of real-time security monitoring technology.

  • Classification.gov.au gets hacked

    The Australia's Classification Board website, which determines Australia's film, literature and media classifications, appears to have been hacked by protesters against its regime.

Blogs (6)

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Is Facebook's care really contempt?

    Facebook's answer as to why it removed vigilante groups that had posted details about accused fire-bug Brendan Sokaluk smells of fear that it may be as responsible as media for content published on its network.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Lovesick money mules or guilty conspirators?

    It's official: Australia is an easy target for Russian crime gangs some are even turning Aussie lonely hearts into money mules. But are those "victims" actually guilty?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could they all just kiss and make up already?

    Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.

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    What's so bad about keeping records?

    Minimising red tape and administrative processes has always been an key goal for most enterprises, but occasionally you get the suspicion that such tasks are not always being undertaken from the purest of motives.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    The Personal Video Recorder perversion

    While news that Australia's copyright law will be updated is welcome -- so copying CDs onto a digital music player is no longer illegal -- there's still plenty to dislike about the proposed new regime.

Features and Case Studies (38)

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • Is the world ready to fight cybercrime?

    Cybercrime poses a growing threat to companies and governments around the world, yet experts are concerned law makers and judicial systems are still not equipped to provide an adequate response.

  • US Air Force Reserve Command: Colonel John Hayes, CIO

    Colonel John Hayes, chief information officer of the US Air Force Reserve command talks about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits for the development of innovative ideas, like the military's new 'Emergency Notification' system.

  • Search engines reveal privacy policies

    Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.

  • Battle of the bots

    You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.

Reviews (3)

  • DVD copying: the good, the bad, the rip-offs

    DVD copying is a murky, controversial, and highly sought-after process. We wade into the fray.

  • ACA trumpets rural mobile access win

    The Australian Communications Authority has claimed a win for rural telecommunications following the prohibition of mobile phone boosters in May last year.

  • Connection Protection

    Your PC may not contain national security secrets, but that doesn't mean you want to give hackers easy access to your personal information. Firewalls not only protect your system from malicious intruders, they also protect you from some viruses and cookie-planting, data-gathering Web sites.

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