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This article is by Bruce Arnold, a lecturer in Law at the University of Canberra. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis Earlier this month the Hon Nicola Roxon asked the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) to conduct an inquiry into the Government’s proposals for […]

blog A number of technology media outlets yesterday reported they had spoken to a member of the Anonymous collective of Internet activists, who stated that they had broken into a major Australian ISP and were preparing to release a vast package of internal data to prove that the Federal Government’s surveillance and data retention plans […]

blog I recently came across a fantastic series of posts which pretty much sums up what I think about Microsoft’s incoming new operating system Windows 8. By Gartner research director Gunnar Berger, the series goes into a whole bunch of issues with respect to Windows 8 as the analyst attempts the tricky task of coming […]

analysis Vodafone Australia is spending hundreds of millions of dollars re-building its troubled 3G mobile network, boosting its customer service levels and trying to win customers back with attractive marketing offers. But the sad truth is that all of its efforts appear to be having little impact on its dismal future. If you read through […]

news German software giant SAP has won a substantial deal with the NSW Government’s Trade Investment agency which it yesterday described as its biggest deployment of its Business ByDesign software as a service suite in Australia, and its first cloud platform win in the local public sector. “SAP Australia today announced that NSW Trade Investment […]

blog US software giant Adobe is fast emerging as one of the toughest nuts to crack when it comes to the IT price hike inquiry currently being carried out by the Federal Parliament. Despite the fact the company’s substantial markups on products like Photoshop and its Creative Suite were frequently mentioned in submissions to the […]

news IP telephony and broadband company MyNetFone this week revealed it had been selected by the Tasmanian Government to supply Voice over IP telephony services to the state, in a three-year deal expected to be worth some $20 million over the period. The State Government – which in the past had traditionally had an extensive […]

blog I know quite a few of you have been holding your tablet cash in reserve waiting for ASUS’ Transformer Pad Infinity, and who can blame you? With a 1920×1200 resolution 10.1″ screen, a Tegra 3 quad-core CPU at 1.6GHz, SonicMaster sound and, of course, that quality dock/keyboard combo, it has looked for some time […]

news Malcolm Turnbull has accused the national broadcaster of creating “relentless propaganda” to support Labor’s flagship National Broadband Network project, in a stance which the Shadow Communications Minister yesterday described as “embarrassing”. The ABC’s Technology Games sub-site has published a number of articles over the past six months by its editor Nick Ross going into […]

news National retailer Coles yesterday revealed it had deployed SharePoint Online, a component of Microsoft’s software as a service-based suite Office 365 to some 100,000 Australian staff, in the latest indication that the cloud platform is gaining traction amongst large Australian enterprises. “Coles, a leading national food, liquor and convenience retailer in Australia has today […]

Hi everyone, yesterday Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull published this article on his website in response to an appearance made by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy on Channel Ten’s Meet the Press program over the weekend. In the interest of maintaining a level of objective truth in the ongoing National Broadband Network debate, later this week […]

news A series of new speed tests on Optus’ fledgling 4G mobile network in the Hunter region of NSW appear to show the network has the potential to be at least as fast as Telstra’s 4G network, reversing earlier results which had appeared to show Optus’ infrastructure was much slower than that of its rival. […]

news The new LNP Queensland State Government has kicked off a substantial drive to reduce the amount it spends on technology-related goods and services, even ahead of a landmark audit of the state’s public sector technology use, expected to be handed down in December this year. In a brief statement to Delimiter late last week, […]

The following post is by Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer, an office of Pirate Party Australia. It was first published on his blog and is licensed under Creative Commons. opinion Pirate Party Australia failed a recent attempt to register its Australian Capital Territory branch (PPAU-ACT). What strikes me as odd is that the media didn’t even acknowledge the […]

This article is by Chris Berg, a research fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs. It was first posted on ABC’s analysis and opinion site The Drum and is reproduced here with permission. opinion Any proposal by the government to increase its own power should be treated with scepticism. Double that scepticism when the government […]

The following article is by Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in response to an announcement by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission yesterday authorising NBN Co’s contract with Optus. It first appeared on his web site. opinion The ACCC has given its final approval to the payment of $800 million of taxpayers money from NBN […]

news Qantas has reportedly revealed plans for a mass deployment of Microsoft’s Office 365 suite, in a landmark move which will mark one of the first major Australian rollouts of the software as a service platform in a private sector entity. The airline didn’t respond to a request for comment yesterday, but the deployment has […]

news The national competition regulator has approved an $800 million deal which will see number two telco Optus shut down its HFC cable network and migrate its fixed-line broadband and telephony customers onto the National Broadband Network infrastructure as it is rolled out over the next decade. In a statement issued yesterday afternoon, the Australian […]

news Three Australian IT and web startups have revealed that they have attracted sizable investment rounds over the past week, as the nation’s startup community continues to gain in scale amid a constant and ongoing series of capital injections that is fuelling individual company growth and the growth of the local ecosystem as a whole. […]

news Three Australian IT and web startups have revealed that they have attracted sizable investment rounds over the past week, as the nation’s startup community continues to gain in scale amid a constant and ongoing series of capital injections that is fuelling individual company growth and the growth of the local ecosystem as a whole. […]

news One of Australia’s peak consumer groups has recommended the Federal Government investigate whether region-coding and charging Australians higher prices for products based on Internet IP address should be banned, in the context of an investigation which has found little justification for average Australian price hikes of 50 percent on technology goods. In May, following […]

news One of Australia’s peak consumer groups has recommended the Federal Government investigate whether region-coding and charging Australians higher prices for products based on Internet IP address should be banned, in the context of an investigation which has found little justification for average Australian price hikes of 50 percent on technology goods. In May, following […]

news The Department of Defence has advertised for a public sector executive to replace its long-serving and highly regarded chief information officer Greg Farr, whose departure will amount to the end of an era for the department. Farr is currently the most high-profile technologist within the Federal Government, having previously had a long career at […]

news The Department of Defence has advertised for a public sector executive to replace its long-serving and highly regarded chief information officer Greg Farr, whose departure will amount to the end of an era for the department. Farr is currently the most high-profile technologist within the Federal Government, having previously had a long career at […]

opinion In an ideal world, the perfect National Broadband Network policy would be a mix of the policies espoused by both Labor and the Coalition, taking the best ideas from both sides and ditching the bad ones. It would address Australia’s short-term needs while still investing in the future. Here’s how it would work. Over […]

opinion In an ideal world, the perfect National Broadband Network policy would be a mix of the policies espoused by both Labor and the Coalition, taking the best ideas from both sides and ditching the bad ones. It would address Australia’s short-term needs while still investing in the future. Here’s how it would work. Over […]

news Most Australians are unsure whether the Federal Government has provided enough support to Australian citizen and Internet activist Julian Assange during his ongoing legal battles in Europe, a new poll has shown, as the Greens continue to call for further assistance for the Wikileaks founder. Assange is currently seeking asylum with the South American […]

news A real-world comparison test conducted by Lifehacker has found that Optus’ fledgling 4G mobile network does not deliver anywhere near the speeds possible on Telstra’s rival 4G infrastructure, despite claims by Optus that the telco was planning to build “the best-performing network in Australia”. In late June, Optus kicked off a high-profile publicity campaign […]

blog If you thought you were having a bad day, spare a thought for the company director of an un-named South Australian ISP, who was recently threatened with an axe by an angry individual who had also allegedly hacked into its servers. AdelaideNow reports: “On three occasions … [the individual] hacked the servers of an […]

news Enterprise IT vendors EMC and Avaya have revealed they have new leaders of their Australian divisions, following the promotion and departure of their local incumbent managing directors. In a statement this morning, unified communications vendor Avaya announced that existing local executive Tim Gentry (pictured, right) had been appointed managing director of Avaya Australia and […]