Communications Minister Stephen Conroy late yesterday said he had received the report from Enex Testlabs into trials of ISP-based internet filtering technology, and would release it "shortly" as part of a public consultation process.
Telstra has signalled weaker earnings growth in the 2009/10 financial year as it continues to face the impact of a softer economy on customer spending, after posting a 10.3 per cent rise in annual profit.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned that governments need to weigh up investment in telecommunications infrastructure, which the opposition has used to pressure the Federal Government to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on its $43 billion NBN proposal.
IBM Australia and New Zealand managing director Glen Boreham has called for government stimulus on technology spending to manage the impact of the global financial crisis in Australia.
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Last week, BigPond launched a new mobile telly offering, smartly named BigPond TV (knew you'd like it), with the usual selection of clips and full programs, old favourites and made for mobile. So will BigPond succeed where so many have struggled?
The government's Australia Connected program, it appears, is no longer an altruistic and long-overdue investment in Australia's infrastructure, but a political football whose primary purpose seems to be to send a massive "nyah-nyah" to the Labor party.
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.
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Former Communications Minister Richard Alston writes that it is critically important to reinvigorate the competitive process in Australia's telecommunications industry with the National Broadband Network and not simply replace one behemoth with another.
What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.
British Airways chief information officer Paul Coby can justifiably claim more than most of his peers to have had a tough time coping with the economic slowdown and cuts in IT budgets.
New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds.
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Exhibitors at this week's annual Bluetooth World Congress, beginning on Tuesday, are pushing the wireless cable-replacement technology into realms where it has not gone before.
A new experimental device combines biology and electronics to investigate the wetware in our heads.
Optus has teamed up with Microsoft to release a GPRS "Smartphone", re-emphasising the carrier's intention to steer clear of 3G services in the near future.
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