The Queensland Government has set out a four year plan designed to enable the state to maximise its opportunities from the rollout of the NBN

It's probably quite difficult to annoy the ACMA, but when your spamming gets beyond a joke, expect to be thrust into the spotlight.

The Federal Government has launched a three year, $5.1m trial of virtual English language tuition over the NBN designed to help new migrants settle into regional communities.

The Federal Government is to provide $4.9m to give children with hearing or vision impairment in regional and remote Australia access to specialist services and therapies through the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Senator Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has announced that Telstra will be providing open access wholesale services through its fibre networks that are currently being deployed in South Brisbane and some new real estate projects that have been launched.

The Federal Government has launched a telehealth pilot program that will use the National Broadband Network to provide services to older Australians, people living with cancer and those requiring palliative care.

The Victorian Government has signed a contract with Telstra on behalf of the Federal Government to enhance the national Emergency Alert telephone warning system so that the selection of mobile phones to receive alerts will be based on their location rather than their billing address, as at present.

The Federal Government is to stage a Telework Week in November "to showcase benefits of working from home" and to, hopefully, increase demand for services delivered over the NBN.

The ACCC has initiated its statutory public enquiry into NBN Co's special access undertaking (SAU) with release of a preliminary consultation paper but the real consultation paper seeking the views of stakeholders will not be released until mid February.

The Federal Government has announced a $20m project to create an online educational portal that will provide school students and teachers around Australia with access to vast archive of ABC material, linked to the Australian Curriculum and that will need NBN bandwidths to utilised.

The Converge Review Committee has released its interim report calling for the creation of a new content and communications regulator with the flexibility to make rules and decisions within clearly stated regulatory objectives and with sufficient powers to encourage competition and compliance.

Today's Cabinet reshuffle takes the nation's cyber security policy development away from the Attorney-General's portfolio and into the Prime Minister's.

The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force is tipping 2012 to be the watershed year for IPv6 adoption in New Zealand, saying that many government organisations anticipate making at least some of their public services available natively on IPv6."

The federal government has put up $249 million in a package designed to help Australian industries become more competitive and create new job opportunities through the cooperative efforts of university researchers, business and industry.

The Victorian Government has boosted funding for the Geelong region information and communication technologies (ICT) cluster, ICT Geelong with $100,000 which will allow the organisation to build on past achievements and assist the continuing development of the ICT sector in the region over the next two years.

Shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has re-iterated the Federal Opposition's criticisms of the NBN, and added a few new ones, in a 3000 word essay posted on his blog.

The National E-health Transition Authority (Nehta) has released the security and access framework that sets out how health information should be collected, stored and accessed – a critical step in its bid to win consumer support for the personally controlled electronic health records which Australians can sign up for starting mid-2012.

The Queensland state opposition claims the Queensland Labor government has ‘blown’ $46 million - or $23,000 per user - on an email system that caters for just 2000 accounts.

Sometimes the hottie on the 'find-me-a-lifelong-partner' website is not what they claim to be.  That's fine if all it costs you is a few drinks at the local bar; not so fine if you're thousands out of pocket.

As the federal government announces spending cuts in its mini-budget, will the public servants who implement government policy chance their arm at real productivity improvements enabled by technology, asks one analyst firm, or will they will just implement yet another round of slashing running costs?