Search giants Google and Yahoo have joined the Australian Library and Information Association and Inspire Foundation to create a coalition of online interests to lobby against Rudd Government plans to filter the internet.

The Rudd Government has played down search giant Google's reluctance to voluntarily assist in censoring Refused Classification material from the internet, saying the company would clearly be required to comply with the new laws when they come in effect anyway.

The Rudd Government has played down search giant Google's reluctance to voluntarily assist in censoring Refused Classification material from the internet, saying the company would clearly be required to comply with the new laws when they come in effect anyway.

Just as search giant Google flatly rejected an overt call from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to assist Government's internet filtering plans, the company has launched its own 'clean feed'-style safety mode for its YouTube video service.

Just as search giant Google flatly rejected a call from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to assist Government's internet filtering plans, the company has launched its own 'clean feed' mode for YouTube.

The spooky Defence Signals Directorate has joined Federal Police investigations into the denial of service attacks on Government web sites that left the Department of Parliamentary Services without access to its internet site for three days.

Shadow Attorney General George Brandis has stepped up Opposition attacks over the appointment of a former Labor political staffer to a $450,000-a-year role within the NBN Company, calling it a "rolled-gold example of jobs for the boys."

Seasonally adjusted jobs advertising in the tech sector remained steady in January in a month that saw overall job advertising climb four per cent, according to the latest Job Index numbers from recruitment firm Olivier.

The freshly-minted Member for Bradfield and former Optus executive Paul Fletcher has used his maiden speech to the Parliament to declare his ambitions for improving Australian capability in research and education, for improving commercial outcomes for local innovation, and for creating a society that makes best use of information technology.

The NBN Company has defended its recruitment practices in the wake of the Mike Kaiser 'Labor Mates' row that erupted from a Senate hearing yesterday, and says its employment processess are based on "merit not mates."