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  • The broadband route

    Looking for an easy way to extend that broadband connection to more of your organisation's PCs? ZDNet Australia explores which broadband routers could be the solution.

  • Firewalls: Keeping the outside out

    Firewalls protect your network from outside attacks, but what can you do when those pesky users keep taking their computers outside your network? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • Under construction

    Six years after the federal government proposed creating a second internet that would leapfrog the first with speed and technology, most users - business and consumer - are still saddled with the low speeds, transmission delays and the other quirks of today's Net

  • Acacia up for national NBN bid

    Further details have emerged about Acacia, the shadowy bidder for the government's $4.7 billion national broadband network, including the fact that it is planning an Australia-wide roll-out that would not be confined to a single state.

  • Nortel warns Telstra winners

    Nortel Networks was disappointed to miss out in Telstra's recent round of billion dollar networking hardware contracts, but last week warned the winners they had better shape up or face being shipped out.

  • Senate panel proposes Net user 'bill of rights'

    The latest Net neutrality provisions in a mammoth Senate communications bill stopped short of giving Internet companies and consumer advocacy groups all the assurances they've requested.

  • Senate deals blow to Net neutrality

    A U.S. Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon.com that had made enacting them a top political priority this year.

  • Cisco readies consumer electronics strategy

    Cisco Systems, a company best known for supplying Internet equipment to Fortune 1000 businesses and Internet service providers, is gearing up for a major move into the consumer electronics market with new products and a new division geared toward home entertainment.

  • War of the Worlds Web site hacked

    The Web site of Steven Spielberg's summer film has been defaced by Brazilian hackers who appear to have exploited a vulnerability in an Apache Web server.

  • Yahoo to kill paid video service

    Yahoo is expected to stop selling its streaming-video service as a standalone product within the next few weeks, according to sources familiar with the plan, raising new questions about the viability of charging for televisionlike content over the Net.

  • Intel hangs mesh hopes on 802.11s

    A new networking standard promises easy configuration, higher bandwidth and more flexibility for home and office wireless networks.

  • Primus buys AOL7

    The Virginia, US-based Primus Telecom Group announced today its pending acquisition of Internet Service Provider AOL|7, expanding the group's customer base to nearly half-million strong.

  • ACCC moves on Telstra service bundling

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken a significant step towards blocking Telstra's controversial move into service "bundling" amid claims from the carrier it is being unfairly singled out over the practice.

  • Expanded $100m Centrelink tender to launch today

    Centrelink will today release a request for tender (RFT) for its entire national data network.

  • EarthLink leaps into app hosting

    EarthLink, the United States' second-largest ISP, will become the first of the big consumer-based Internet service providers to venture into hosted applications when it tests a service for small businesses later this year.

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