Microsoft has helped develop an open source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format, which makes documents easily accessible by the 160 million people worldwide with impaired vision.
The ACCC's vision of Australia's next-generation of broadband is designed to keep its rival G9 in the race to build a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network and will sentence the country to a low speed future, according to Telstra.
Just as building codes have changed to make access easier for everyone, so are standards changing in hardware and software design.
Local law enforcement agencies have a vision of Australia being the first country in the world to successfully block stolen mobile phones across carrier networks, and hope to have a more definitive timeframe for when such a ban will be enforced by May this year.
Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?
While e-mail scams (or phishing) and the insurmountable clutter from spam won't fade overnight, it's heartening to note that sometimes, unconsciously, technology does save a life or two.
Just as building codes have changed to make access easier for everyone, so are standards changing in hardware and software design.
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