Defence minister disowns Twitter account
Minister for Defence John Faulkner today rose in the Senate to dissociate himself from Twitter and Facebook, offering what is known as a "personal explanation" in the Senate.
Gen Why?
Millennials were raised on technology -- they never had to be taught. So if you really need someone to explain what it all really means, just ask Gen-Y geek Josh Taylor, and he'll blog about it (whenever he feels like it).
Josh Taylor
Armed with a degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Journalism, Josh keeps a close eye on the telecommunications industry and all the goings on in government IT. Like most Gen Y, he spends a lot of his time with his eyes glued to his iPhone on various social media apps.
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PM and Conroy clam up on filter 'delays'
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today said he had "no advice" to suggest that the Federal Government's plans to implement a mandatory internet filter would be delayed until after the federal election, despite a report saying it would.
McAfee clients: do you have the guts?
McAfee customers whose systems went down yesterday should demand they get given money or an extended licence for the time they had to spend fixing the problem.
Blacklist costs could beat filter
Today the costs of running a blacklist were made clear, showing that the filter could be a very expensive operation.
Facebook removes Conroy murder fan page?
Facebook appears to have removed a fan page stating that the phrase "someone should kill [Communications Minister] Senator Stephen Conroy" was "very illegal to say".
Google 'recommends' gay porn
Google is serving up what some internet users have described as "hardcore pornography" in a new feature it introduced to Google Reader earlier this year.
Conroy censors own site?
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has had the phrase "ISP Filtering" censored from a tag cloud on his own website.
T-Hub won't save Telstra's cash cow
Despite what Telstra thinks, its soon-to-be-released T-Hub won't "mitigate" the "severe" decline in its fixed-line revenue.
Govt, hurry up with releasing data
A programmer scraped data from the My School website to make some really cool heat maps showing regions of smart schools — no thanks to the government, which didn't supply the data in any useful kind of format.