Policy
HTC America has settled Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it failed to take reasonable steps to secure the software it developed for its Android based smartphones and tablets, introducing security flaws that placed sensitive information about millions of consumers at risk.
Quigley changes tune and joins Coalition choir singing broadband study
By Stan Beer
In a monumental election year about face, NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley has called for a public debate on the best way to build the National Broadband Network. What's more, Mr Quigley, so certain since day 1 that the Government's ubiquitous FTTH NBN is the way to go, has now called upon peak industry body the Communications Alliance to join the debate.
The majority of Australians stash instead of trash old electronics.
‘Uninformed bilious abuse’ - Turnbull blasts Aussie journalists on poor coverage of NBN
By Graeme Philipson
Shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has given Australia’s assembled IT journalists a characteristic serve about what he regards as their uninformed and biased coverage of the NBN.
Telstra's HFC Bigpond Cable network would unfortunately not survive under a Coalition Federal Government, according to Shadow Broadband Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Well at least that's the inference from his answer to a question from iTWire after his keynote address at the Kickstart conference on the Sunshine Coast today.
New standards designed to help divert e-waste from landfill by imposing a rigorous process for its collection, storage, and recycling have been set by Standards Australia.
Whole of Government Microsoft policy saved $100 million: Sheridan
By Stan BeerChanges to the Australian Government's Microsoft desktop buying policy has saved the country's largest procurer of IT $100 million, according to the new chief technology officer, John Sheridan.
It’s good to see the Senate Estimates Committee has such important work to do.
The long slow road to automating Australia’s medical system just get a little shorter, as the ACCC smooths the path to interoperability of electronic prescriptions.
We can’t trust our politicians to behave at the best of times. At the Senate Estimates hearing into the National Broadband Network they acted like ten – no eight – year olds.
