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The Internet Industry Association has called on Stephen Conroy to get on with building the NBN rather than picking fights with industry players like Google.
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AUSTRALIANS may be forced to wait for Google TV if the search giant thinks any proposed ISP filter will result in a poorer quality service.
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The ANZ bank opened an internal investigation into allegations that staff in Melbourne created a fake Facebook profile to gather information on customers with bad credit who have changed address without informing the bank.
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Apple shot past Microsoft as the world’s biggest tech company based on market value in overnight trade in the US – the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.
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POWERS allowing customs officials to search travellers arriving in Australia for pornography have been labelled as “sneaky” and an “invasion of privacy”.
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Referring to the Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy’s comments at Monday’s Senate Estimates Committee hearing, Mr Linn said the Association was very disappointed when the Minister used Parliamentary Privilege to launch sustained attacks against officers of leading Internet companies.
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Facebook has said they will draw up guidelines for dealing with local police, but will not appoint a local police liaison team.
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The Greens have called for the federal government to make it easier for the 1.4 million votes with incorrect details to update them online. A more to get more young voters to update their details. But does the government really want young votes to vote?
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The Australian Federal Government is about to introduce mandatory internet filtering. If implemented it will make Australia the most heavily censored country in the western world. They’ve told us it’s to protect the kids but the truth is it doesn’t. By telling your mum the facts you will help her realise that if she really wants to protect kids online mandatory filtering isn’t the answer.
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POPULAR Aussie comedian Akmal Saleh is taking the fight over the Rudd government’s mandatory internet filter to children through a new campaign called “It’s time to tell Mum”.
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Facebook has stated that it will tighten its privacy policy after the recent public outcry. I suppose we will have to wait and see if it actually does anything useful.
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THE federal government has been asked to justify its business dealings with Google after Communications Minister Stephen Conroy described the company as conducting one of the largest privacy breaches in the world.
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The new Apple store in Bondi Junction opened today, a couple of months before the Apple reseller on the same block was informed by Apple.
