Future Fund chief executive Paul Costello yesterday remained tight-lipped in the face of sustained questioning over the fund's stance, as an investor, on the pending legislated separation of Telstra's operations.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has lashed out at major Telstra investors angry at the government's plan to break up the telco, saying it's "difficult" to understand the companies' negative conclusions about the government's actions.
Apple has protested the use of Woolworths' new apple-shaped trademark, which looks similar to the well-known brand image loved by Mac fans worldwide.
A group of eight investment firms have reportedly sent a letter to Telstra's chairman calling for the rejection of its separation proposed by the government; however, a source from one of the eight signatories claims the letter is still in draft form.
The Australian Federal Police has been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers due to occur at 7pm tonight.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
The council rubbish truck didn't pick up my bin last week. Instead, the garbage contractor left a big yellow sticker highlighting exactly why my old egg shells, rancid fruit, microwave pizza boxes, an ancient and smelly pair of sneakers, and the odd brick had been left to rot on my property.
The Pirate Party of Australia should forget about trying to win a Senate seat in the Federal Government and instead focus its sights on even lower hanging fruit. I speak, of course, of the state governments.
Australia needs to do more to de-couple itself from an over-reliance on the boom or bust impacts that the US ICT Industry brings to Australia's own ICT industry.
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Electronic Frontiers Australia has complied with a notice by the nation's communications regulator to delete a link from its site. But, the organisation writes, the action raises serious freedom of speech and freedom of political communication issues.
Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs kicked off Macworld Expo on Tuesday in the U.S. by announcing a smaller iPod music player, new multimedia software and an update to Microsoft's Office package.
Commentary: It's that time of year when unlikely ideas experience their brief moment in the sun.
Apple Computer's iTunes software has apparently opened up a new way for Macintosh owners to share music collections across the Internet.
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