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by James Riley
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South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has thrown down the gauntlet to adult games advocates, challenging the R18+ lobby to run a candidate and try to unseat him at the State election next March.
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by James Riley
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The legal arguments in the iiNet-AFACT case being heard in the Federal Court in Sydney echo those that saw the creation recent 'internet rights' reforms in the European Union – and both sides have been watching these developments with interest.
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by David Heath
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Earlier today, the organisers of the Webby Awards announced their selection of the most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade.
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by Stuart Corner
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Communications Alliance has released a paper proposing a definition for wholesale ethernet services to be provided by the National Broadband Network and other broadband infrastructures.
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by Peter Dinham
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Global health IT systems vendor, InterSystems has started deploying the Australian-developed InterSystems TrakCare connected health information system in the new Santiago Military Hospital in Chile that will enable electronic clinical files for soldiers to be made available whenever they seek attention at any of the health centres across Chile that are part of the country’s Army Health Command (Cosale) Network.
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by Stephen Withers
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Telstra has upgraded its Melbourne HFC network to provide 100Mbps download capability. The carrier is also introducing its own set-top box for free-to-air and BigPond TV channels.
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by James Riley
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Queensland Liberal frontbencher George Brandis has stepped up Opposition attacks on Government over the $450,000-a-year appointment of former Labor staffer Mike Kaiser to the NBN Company, labelling the decision "disgraceful."
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by Stuart Corner
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The CEO of Fairfax Digital, Jack Matthews, has been appointed to the board of the New Zealand Government-owned company, Crown Fibre Holdings (CFH), set up to manage the Government's planned $NZ1.5b investment in a national FTTH network.
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by David Heath
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Microsoft was successfully sued for copyright infringement by the developer of the Chinese fonts used in almost all versions of Windows.
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by Peter Dinham
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Citrix is claiming ‘groundbreaking’ new ‘Pay-as-You-Grow’ on-demand pricing for its Citrix NetScaler line of application acceleration, load balancing and web security appliances, which it says allows its customers to buy only what they need today, knowing they can easily scale up their network as demand grows with a simple software license upgrade.
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by Peter Dinham
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Security software company, PC Tools, says it has identified a new way cyber criminals are trying to prey on the fans of the Twilight series with anticipation of the upcoming “New Moon” movie, which comes out tomorrow, reaching a fever pitch.
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by Beverley Head
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Tony Clasquin couldn’t have chosen a more public forum in which to trumpet the news that he was leaving his position as CIO of BankWest than the Gartner Symposium currently being held in Sydney which has over 900 of Australia’s leading IT managers attending.
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by Peter Dinham
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The not-for profit Australian Academic and Research Network – AARNet - has managed the transfer of files of up to 55 gigabytes in customer trials of its new web-based large file transfer sevice, CloudStor, which was launched on the market today and which allows the secure electronic transfer of virtually any file type regardless of size.
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by Mike Bantick
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has set new benchmarks for the entertainment industry by becoming the biggest launch ever. Move over Harry Potter, Batman and Grand Theft Auto IV, there is a new king.
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