Microsoft has helped develop an open source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format, which makes documents easily accessible by the 160 million people worldwide with impaired vision.
The ACCC's vision of Australia's next-generation of broadband is designed to keep its rival G9 in the race to build a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network and will sentence the country to a low speed future, according to Telstra.
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Local law enforcement agencies have a vision of Australia being the first country in the world to successfully block stolen mobile phones across carrier networks, and hope to have a more definitive timeframe for when such a ban will be enforced by May this year.
Hoffman's position on the board will ensure that the National Broadband Network Company can engage with the content industry in a meaningful way.
On the same day that the bids for the national broadband network bids were handed into the government, Australia, Baz Luhrman's vain masterpiece was released to the plebs.
Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?
While e-mail scams (or phishing) and the insurmountable clutter from spam won't fade overnight, it's heartening to note that sometimes, unconsciously, technology does save a life or two.
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