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  • Fries with your broadband?

    Even in big cities it can be a heck of a lot easier to find a Big Mac than it can be to find a wireless hotspot.

  • Internet radio conman sentenced

    A man who induced people to invest in an Internet radio station has been sentenced to 500 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to 11 charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

  • Aust government flags Internet election campaign laws

    The federal government plans to legislate after 1 July to extend the provisions of the Electoral Act to the Internet in an effort to clamp down on Web sites which decline to identify an individual who takes responsibility for election coverage.

  • Western Australian Internet body slams censorship policy

    The Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) has slammed an Internet censorship policy created by the Family First Party in the wake of Australia's biggest ever child porn bust.

  • Internet radio spruiker pleads guilty of fraud

    A man who made promises that induced people to invest in an Internet radio station has pleaded guilty on 10 charges in the New South Wales district court.

  • Microsoft releases Media Center in Australia

    Microsoft today launched its long awaited Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, which is designed to converge the home entertainment centre into a single software program.

  • NetBank pilot glitches anger users

    Glitches in the Commonwealth Bank's pilot of an upgraded NetBank service are infuriating users.

  • State Internet body slams broadband price frenzy

    Protests over Telstra's new broadband deals continued as the Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) expressed their outrage, saying Telstra has delivered a "devastating blow" to competition in the Internet industry.

  • Optus cuts off WA-S'pore Net peering deal

    Singapore Telecommunications and its Australian subsidiary, Optus, have terminated an Internet peering arrangement with the Western Australian Internet Association's WAIX exchange, citing "a global network consolidation plan".

  • Porn surfing still powers Australian staff surveillance

    Australia is 18 months behind the US in the thought process behind workplace monitoring, still seeing pornography as the main type of content that needs managing, according to a visiting electronic surveillance expert.

  • Retail therapy winning online

    Online shoppers in Australia have increased by 82 percent during the past 12 months, according to a new global study on the Internet and e-commerce.

  • Austar flogs off metro Internet business

    Austar United Communications has sharpened its focus on rural and regional markets, selling its metropolitan Internet business to unlisted public company Virtual Communities.

  • Aust Uni network suffers outage

    The Australian Academic Research Network was partially down for eight hours over the weekend leaving three South Australian Universities inaccessible from the Internet.

  • Internet take-up surges, sector takes stock

    Internet take-up in Australia hit a robust 40 percent last year, with an increase of 1.89 million users taking to the Net. It was also a year that taught the dot-com sector many lessons.

  • Australian airline Web portals fail to land standards

    Australian airline Internet portals still provide poorer standards of service than those of their competitors in the Asia-Pacific region according to a study conducted by independent e-commerce watchdog, GlobalReviews.

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