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Two years ago, New Zealand vowed that it would not allow software to be patentable in the country. Yesterday, the shaky isles did a back-flip and decided to only partially forbid the practice.

The Greens in Australia, New Zealand and Canada have expressed "serious concern" at the "undemocratic and non-transparent nature" of the talks on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.

The Australian and New Zealand Governments has issued a joint report into trans-Tasman roaming charges that canvasses a number of options designed to lead to lower charges. Not surprisingly it "finds telecommunication companies are making excessive profits from trans-Tasman mobile roaming charges."

Legislation passed in the Senate yesterday will allow Australia to be part of a growing international posse of nations saddling up to take on cyber criminals.

In his first public address since entering the Ecuadorean embassy in London, Julian Assange demands that the US ends the witch hunt against Wikileaks and that Bradley Manning be released.

For the first time, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is inviting the general public to input contributions to its upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12).

IBM, through its Cúram Research Institute (ICRI) - part of the Smarter Cities Technology Centre at the company’s Research & Development Lab in Ireland - has come up with a new business model and approach to social program transformation which it has put forward to the federal, state and territory governments to assist their design of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

The Victorian Coalition Government has released a report on telecommunications demand, claiming that the NBN rollout is failing the state. When a similar report with similar findings was released two years ago the then Labor Government hailed it as a vindication of the Federal Government's NBN strategy.