Opinions are split amongst analysts, telcos and ISPs as to whether Pipe's new PPC-1 Sydney to Guam submarine cable will lead to lower broadband prices for Australians, but all agree the threat of its arrival, set for October, has had a positive impact already.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that the list of prohibited internet addresses leaked by an unknown party is not the ACMA blacklist.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said that the reason some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) hadn't been chosen in the first round of ISP filtering was that they had greedily tried to get the department to pay for upgrades to their own equipment.
The New South Wales Government has unveiled plans to give state police the power to hack into computers remotely, with owners potentially remaining in the dark about the searches for up to three years.
Facebook and MySpace today confirmed they were removing some sensitive content about accused Victorian arsonist Brendan Sokaluk from their sites, following public requests from the Victorian Police.
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?
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.
In the 21st century, if we don't like our political leaders, we endlessly whine about them on blogs. In the Czech Republic, historically a simpler solution was frequently used: throw the offending individuals out the window. Storage managers can learn something from this.
The new film Firewall is the latest in a long line of Hollywood hacker movies. But how do they rate in terms of accuracy and entertainment value?
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.
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.
A quarter of employers have sacked workers for how they use their e-mail -- and even for misuse of the office phone, a study shows.
India reports success, while Venezuela fears fraud. What can the world learn?
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says readers are united in their contempt for the idea of embedding chips in people.
Sex may help sell things during TV ad breaks, but research by the University of New South Wales indicates that fear and anger are the hooks that keeps you glued to the box.
What do you get when you give two artists and a team of techies a $1 million budget and put them in a dark room? A T-Visionarium. ZDNet.com.au talks with chief architect of the project that has uncovered some ugly truths about what we love about TV.
Just how good are web filtering packages? We put eight of the best head to head in our Australian review.
As a size barrier looms for the memory chips, the industry works to come up with a successor.
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