NBN pricing has more to do with politics than economics

Australia's proposed national broadband network has probably been written about much more than any other tech topic since it was announced. This probably indicates that the existing infrastructure is not really up to providing the kind of speeds that people need in this day and age.
 

Is teaparty.com worth a million?

A Canadian band's domain name is said to be worth as much as $US1 million. A bid is on the table, but could it really be for that much? And who would want to buy it?
 

Twitter + Weiner: the world’s saddest tweiner?

Tweeners are normally those between the ages of around 8 and 12, but Tweiner is a nickname for the twittering former Rep Weiner, whose twittering ways caught the attention of an unknown band of Twitterers keen to trap America’s chief political Twit and fully expose him.
 

Is it Weiner in a pickle, or pickle in a Weiner?

After the tweeting underpants incident, Congressman Anthony Weiner has finally decided to resign.  And guess who has offered him a job!
 

NBN means No Bloody Network in Tassie public schools?

Although the Labor Party is meant to be one “of the people”, the Tasmanian Labor Government has seemingly made little effort to actually connect its public schools to the people’s national bloody network.
 

Congressman Weiner's underpants - chock full of tweeting goodness

In an on-again-off-again saga, Congressman Weiner finally admits his (ahem) wiener was indeed the filling in the tweeted underpants.
 

Obama can teach our politicians a social media lesson

As U.S. President Barack Obama re-launches his online marketing campaign ahead of the November elections, Australian politicians would be well advised to take his lead and learn to implement social media into their own campaigns, according to an internet marketing expert.
 

Australians split on NBN following floods

Opposition leader Tony Abbott's suggestion that the NBN should be scrapped following Queensland's flood crisis has divided Australian opinion, a new survey shows.
 

NBN: politicians and their promises

The Federal Coalition, the opposition to the Federal Government, has had its Finance Spokesperson, Andrew Robb, make an excellent suggestion in relation to the NBN, but would he take it up himself?
 

Turnbull is as vague as Labor when it comes to the NBN

COMMENT New brooms generally sweep well. And given that the new broom under discussion here - the federal Australian Coalition's communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull - comes to the job with some experience in the internet business, his arguments against the NBN are more likely to be taken seriously.