Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, is reportedly foreshadowing changes in the legislation to stop Optus offering its TV Now service, following the company's court win last week. Any changes are likely to whittle away at the exemption we currently enjoy to time-shift programs.

Samsung's CES announcements include a raft of new products heading for Australia this year. Heading the list are TVs with voice and motion control plus face recognition, somewhat reminiscent of Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, but there's a lot more in the company's latest home entertainment ranges.

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.

Microsoft has acquired video search engine VideoSurf for a reported $70 million and plans to add its video tagging technology to Xbox Live.

Nick Ross over at Aunty ABC has written an article The Case for Piracy.

Need a break from Call of Duty? More Australian TV content will soon be available on Xbox 360.

Samsung have this afternoon confirmed that its Smart TV and Blu-ray player range now have access to three new apps, including one for the ABC’s catch-up television service iView.

With the ABC having reportedly played host to Bitcoin currency creation software put in place by an ABC Innovation IT worker, who knows what evil malware lurks in the heart of some IT admins’ networks?

We know the ABC is a public broadcaster and isn’t likely to be offering the highest salaries in the world, but this is ridiculous.

The ABC’s popular “catch-up” iview TV service has finally come to the iPad, featuring a “fresh new contemporary look” – but Android, iPhone and Samsung TV users will have to wait until 2011 before they can join the iview party.