items tagged with ISPs
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2009-02-24 02:14:15
Message Partners has just released into the public domain for use with spam filters, what it claims is the world’s most extensive offensive language list, including hundreds of thousands of permutations of sexually explicit language.
Read More About Offensive Words List Released For Use With Spam Filters In Fight To Protect Children...
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2009-02-23 17:34:22
Some 95 percent of all UK ISPs filter known child abuse sites, yet that leaves a huge number still able to access some horrific images.
Read More About Is ISP Blocking The Answer To Child Porn?...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-12 05:44:51
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy seems to be trying to increase the depth of the hole he's digging with his much maligned Internet content filtering trial. The content filtering scheme and the trial are already widely unpopular but Senator Conroy is stretching the bounds of credibility by restricting the ISPs taking part to mostly bit players.
Read More About Internet Filtering Trial Exposed As A Government Sham?...
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-11 17:22:38
The ACCC has secured a court enforceable undertaking from TPG over its claims of "unlimited" calls and text messages under its "Unlimited Cap Saver" mobile phone plan advertised on television, in newspapers and on billboards. In late 2008.
Read More About ACCC Limits TPG's 'unlimited' Mobile Plan Advertising...
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-11 17:20:19
New Zealand's largest online marketplace, Trade Me, which also claims to be the country's most popular web site, has implemented F5's Viprion application delivery controllers (ADCs) to manage growing access volumes.
Read More About NZ's Trade Me Optimises Operations With F5 Gear...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 06:13:44
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has named the first six ISPs that will take part in the Government's trial of ISP side content filtering, and only one of them comes from the top ten.
Read More About Conroy Announces First Filterers And Not A Big One In Sight...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-10 04:15:23
Internet service provider EFTel Limited (ASX: EFT) has expanded its Wholesale Division - to be known as EFTel Wholesale in the wake of its recent acquisition of the Concept Group.
Read More About EFTel Expands Wholesale Division And Appoints New Head Of Business...
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-01-24 08:05:18
How would you tackle the problem of online movie and music piracy? The British Government is wondering if a broadband tax might be the answer.
Read More About Broadband Tax For Brits?...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2009-01-13 20:39:47
ISP Internode is beefing up its international and domestic network with changes that include a new submarine cable link for true diversity. The enhanced network is expected to quadruple the links between major Australian capitals as well as improve performance between Australia and Asia.
Read More About Internode Beefs Up Network With Submarine Link...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-13 20:26:50
Could it really be true – an ISP in Australia offering broadband with no download caps? A new ISP called “myKP” says it will offer just that from January 26 but “initially” only on a limited basis in areas that can already access myKP’s Free Wi-Fi - although the service is expected to be offered to "everyone" in a "not too long" timeframe.
Read More About Unknown New ISP, MyKP, Offers Broadband “With No Download Caps”...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-24 04:02:17
Although due to begin on or before the 24th of December 2008, Australia’s draconian Internet content filter trials have now been postponed until mid-January 2009, with peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic filtering also set to be performed. Here’s an idea – delay to trial all right – but to mid-Jan, 2099!
Read More About Internet Filter Trials Delayed, P2P Now Included!...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-23 20:35:43
The raging Australian Internet filtering war keeps on hotting up, with the Shadow Minister for Communications demanding that the Internet filtering trial, already put back to mid-January, must not remain secret – and must have a totally independent audit.
Read More About Conroy, Don’T Keep The Internet Filtering Trials Secret: Minchin...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-16 23:08:08
AFACT has issued the press a short statement including a Word .doc transcript “from today’s directions hearing on the iinet case regarding internet piracy of films and TV shows today.”
Read More About AFACT Issues Brief Update On IiNet Court Proceedings...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-16 19:04:51
iiNet, the Australian ISP under attack from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) for allegedly not doing enough to prevent piracy over its network, says its defence in the Federal Court has finally begun.
Read More About IiNet – The Federal Court Defence Begins...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-11 19:07:32
iiNet, iPrimus and iNternode (ok, Internode) have all gone down the unmetered ABC iView path, and now iiNet subsidiary Westnet has done the same, too.
Read More About Westnet Officially Brings ABC IView Into View, Too...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-12-10 04:14:06
Some worrying signs concerning our basic freedoms have begun to emerge throughout the free world, with the UK and Australia at the forefront of a disturbing trend to censor the Internet. Two recent events indicate an erosion of our rights as citizens within a free society.
Read More About Simpsons And Filters Signal New Era Of Internet McCarthyism...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-08 22:32:01
Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra, has decided not to participate in the Australian Federal Government’s “Internet filtering” trial, primarily due to “customer management issues”, but might still implement filtering technologies in the future.
Read More About Like The Computer, Telstra Says “No” – To Aussie Net Filtering...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-12-08 02:08:17
As the outrage continues to build in Australia over Government plans to introduce mandatory Internet filtering for ISPs, a furor has erupted in Britain over a number of UK ISPs blocking a Wikipedia page because of a complaint.
Read More About UK Wikipedia Filter A Sign Of Things To Come?...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-12-04 20:31:59
Junior telco M2 Telecommunications Group (ASX: MTU) and struggling broadband provider People Telecom (ASX: PEO) have announced a friendly merger, which will see M2 acquire all of the smaller company's shares.
Read More About M2 Announces Friendly Takeover Of People Telecom...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-11-26 00:15:04
Not satisfied with its own network of ADSL2+ DSLAMs, Internode will begin using Telstra's equipment next month.
Read More About Internode To Use Telstra ADSL2+ DSLAMs...
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