UK-based tech services outfit Logica has more than tripled the size of its Canberra operation as the company targets opportunities among mid-sized federal agencies breaking out of the large-scale, clustered outsourcing contracts that characterised the Howard years.
Identity theft computer a $28m lemon: Auditor
A $28 million Federal document verification program set up under the Howard Government to combating identity theft and other cybercrimes had made only "limited" progress and made little improvement to personal identification processes, the Auditor General has found.
St James Ethics' filter debate on the nose: Reist
Social commentator and author Melinda Tankard Reist has withdrawn from a prestigious St James Ethics Centre debate on internet censorship claiming the organisers had stacked the outcome.
Coalition to oppose NBN regardless: Smith
The Coalition will continue to oppose the construction of the National Broadband Network regardless of whether the $25 million KPMG-McKinsey implementation study puts forward a reasonable business case for the Government plan.
Ambassador pushes US filter opposition
The Obama Administration would continue to lean on the Australian Government to abandon its plans to introduce its proposed internet filter, the United States Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich says.
Unregulated internet not an option: Conroy
Leaving the online world as an unregulated distribution medium actually "weakens all that is good about the internet," Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has told the Sydney Institute in a detailed defence of the Rudd Government's digital policy agenda.
Senate targets Conroy on NBN plan
The Senate's powerful standing committee on the Environment, Communications and the Arts will pursue details of the Government's $25 million implementation study into the National Broadband Network during estimates hearings in Canberra next month.
NBN one year on: Transformational or reckless?
One year after the Rudd Government's $43 billion National Broadband Network was announced, no customers have been connected to the optical fibre service, the public has no idea how much its superfast services will cost or when they will be delivered.
NBN Tassie: Conroy and the missing $100m
A $100 million "equity injection" into the NBN Tasmania Company earmarked to fund its Stage Three roll-out of fibre to major metropolitan areas has still not reached the company, nearly six weeks after it was announced by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Better, Faster, Cheaper without NBN: Smith
The National Broadband Network was an "ill-conceived adventure" that had left poorly-served households in rural and regional Australia without a decent internet connection for two years longer than necessary, shadow communications spokesman Tony Smith says.
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