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Research team for ABC is working hard to stay at the cutting edge of new media
This year will see the tech heads at ABC working very hard in making sure that they remain on the new media’s cutting edge. Just a short distance from the Melbourne headquarters of Aunty at Ripponlea, a team run by Dan Fill is working in a secret research bunker. Fill will ...
FY08 sees the number of broadband users jump by 22 percent to 4.3 million
Based on new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistic the number of homes in Australia signing up for broadband services throughout the year up to June 30th 2008 has increased by 800 000, which has bought the current number of Australian home with broadband to 4.3 million. This means that ...
Minchin says that 2008 was a wasted opportunity for broadband
Nick Minchin, the shadow communications spokesperson has said that 2008 will be remembered as a year of wasted opportunity after promises made by the Rudd Government for it to be a year of fast broadband access for everyone in Australia. In a recent statement Mr Minchin said “Despite all the broadband ...
Aboriginal communities hit due to the lack of government action
As the fate of a major project set to supply 134 indigenous remote communities over 550 locations with computer systems and access to the internet currently hangs in the balance it would appear that the lack of action by the government will see Australia’s aboriginal communities paying the price. As part ...
Telstra could be forced to split by national broadband plans
If Telstra, the biggest telephone company in Australia, is bypassed completely when it builds the $6.9 billion National Broadband Network, as the government has threatened, it is highly likely that the telco could be split up. Having been dropped from the planning of the new network Telstra could see the ...
Plans for Web site blocking causes outrage in Australia
Australia could soon become one of the strictest regulators of the Internet among democratic countries with the new internet filter it is proposing, which has been named by many as the “Great Aussie Firewall”. This Internet filtering system, which will be mandatory and will block more than 1300 websites that the ...
Government responsible for more delays in the net filtering system trials
The latest delay to hit the mandatory internet filtering trial by the government is, according to the federal government something that has come as no surprise. An announcement of the postponing of the trial, which should have started recently, and that it will now be moved to a new date of ...
BitTorrent and Peer to Peer traffic also to be included in filter tests says Conroy
The trials of the controversial ISP content filter that is due to begin before the year end will now also include new filter technologies that examine both BitTorrent and peer-to-peer traffic, according to Stephen Conroy, the Broadband minister. In response to recent allegations of both freedom of speech and technical issue ...
2008 sees rise in number of Australian broadband users by 22 percent to 4.3M
According to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of statistics the signup by Australian homes for broadband access services from the beginning of the year to 30th June 2008 rose by 800 000, which increased the total number to 4.3 million. Although compared to the June 2007 figures it ...
iiNet defends itself against claims that it allowed piracy
iiNet has been given until February to file a defense against the movie studios who allege that it permitted the illegal download of films by its customers willingly, in a landmark case that is set to rock the internet industry. The deadline of February 5th was recently set by Justice Dennis ...
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