A NZ government-funded survey has raised questions about the productivity gains to be made from providing fast internet access.
The websites of the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention were knocked offline yesterday due to a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
The Australian Computer Society fired its then-CEO Kim Denham on 22 May 2009, ending her tenure in a role she had thought would last for three years and thereby, she claimed in court documents recently filed, putting her out of pocket.
Former CEO of the Australian Computer Society Kim Denham has taken the society to the Federal Court for misleading or deceptive conduct.
Cisco's local chief Les Williamson today said it was too early to say what role the networking titan could play in the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) project, and that he would honour NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley's request for contact via industry representative bodies.
We've got our own open source versus Microsoft stoush going on in New Zealand, with the government as a key player.
IT often promises the government much with the big pull being productivity gains and cost savings, but does the government think about IT in the terms of something that will cure its ills or something which could backfire and give it process diarrhea for a decade?
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'.
Even the dim-witted bad guys in the Bond flick Quantum of Solace know that concentrating lots of power in a small place may not be the best idea. So how could Stephen Conroy and ACMA have been surprised when the alleged web filter blacklist made its debut?
The world changes fast and many enterprises large and small fail to see the next wave or see it and dismiss it.
The level of ignorance from Australian politicians about technology can be staggering. Here's some of the worst examples we've seen, and a short recipe for resolving the issue.
Yesterday's report from the Australian Computer Society's Filtering and E-Security Task Force will be a handy weapon in Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's battle over internet censorship.
The key for organisations wanting to learn how to best utilise Twitter lies in understanding the subtle differences between it and other social networking tools.
IBRS advisor Guy Cranswick argues that the use of net neutrality is an aggressive manoeuvre to retain market share and withhold change in the telecommunications market.
Twitter is not the great evil for journalists and media. In fact, it is helping to renew the media and bring that great lady called "journalism" back to her rightful throne.
Converging technology has turned fridges into televisions, and phones into cameras, but just how far will convergence take us?
Always a contentious topic, we look server-based Internet content filters and some of the reasons why your organisation might want one, or not.
Is all the fuss about online privacy justified?
Computers don't have personalities -- or do they?
The browser war is apparently over. It's just that nobody's told alternative browser developers yet.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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The Change Program changes its Agenda
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Microsoft's Tracey Fellows on Windows 7
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