Category: Technology

Consultation on regional connectivity program rules launched

Draft rules for the Round 3 of Australia's Regional Connectivity Program are now out for public consultation....

Twitter restricts sharing links to social media competitors

Twitter has announced that it will suspend accounts that have been created for the sole purpose of sharing links and/or or advertising usernames to social...

Foxtel Chair appointed as new Australia Post head

Siobhan McKenna, Chair of the Board of Foxtel Group, has been named as the new Chair of the Australia Post Board for a term of...

NBN Co blasts ‘free-riding’ users, suggests cutting price tier gaps

NBN Co has again blasted customers for choosing plans that mismatch their usage, claiming they "in effect 'free-ride'" on its network....

Exciting changes to anticipate from Pinterest in 2023

Pinterest will have a lot of room to grow in 2023 as it continues its quest to becoming the social media ecommerce centre....

Channel UC named ANZ distributor for Ribbon Comms

Channel UC has been appointed as ANZ distributor for Ribbon Communications, a global provider of real-time communications software....

Telstra apologises for ‘accidental’ leak of clients’ personal data

A new Australia-US treaty will allow Australian law enforcement agencies to access previously encrypted data from US comms service providers....

Australia to get access to data from US comms service providers

A new Australia-US treaty will allow Australian law enforcement agencies to access previously encrypted data from US comms service providers....

Four developments we might see on LinkedIn in 2023

Should LinkedIn keep the traction boost coming or should it bring the old times of being exclusively for professional discussions?...

Meta warns of news content removal if new law passes

Meta said it would consider news content removal from its platform if the US passed laws mandating tech companies to pay news publishers....

Treasury releases final report on media bargaining code review

The final report of Treasury’s statutory review into the News Media Bargaining Code has been released with three primary recommendations....

Richmond Valley gets increased communications network resilience

The ACCC has sued telecommunications giant Telstra, alleging that it misled customers about the actual download speeds they would experience....

ACCC sues Telstra for misleading customers on download speeds

The ACCC has sued telecommunications giant Telstra, alleging that it misled customers about the actual download speeds they would experience....

NBN adopts ‘world’s first 6G broadband platform’ from Nokia

NBN has adopted the Nokia Lightspan MF-14, the world's first 6G broadband platform, making it the first in the Southern Hemisphere to do so....

Brain chip developed by Musk’s company to undergo human trials

The wireless brain chip developed by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink that could reinstate patients' communication abilities is expected to enter human clinical testing in six...

Texts remain significant three decades after first SMS

Text messages remain to be significant as a communication service in many people's lives, 30 years after the first text was sent....

Huge changes you should expect from TikTok in 2023

2022 has been nothing short of amazing for TikTok. But as it comes to a close, one could not help but wonder: what is in...

Competition office urges govt to abolish ‘broadband tax’

AGCNCO says the government should abandon its broadband tax and spend $750M to fund NBN's loss-making remote satellite and wireless services....

Policing truth in campaign ads is challenging, says election officer

SA's chief election officer says that policing truth in campaign ads is difficult and frequently draws officials into partisan discussions....

Twitter scales back COVID-19 misinformation policy

Even as COVID-19 cases proliferate in certain other areas of the world, Twitter has scaled back a regulation meant to tackle misinformation....