Tag: economy

Telco/ISP

Britain dumps internet blocking plans

Aug 4, 2011 | Comment Now

Reveals new details on planned piracy notification system.

Telco/ISP

Conroy talks up NBN participation

By Stephen Withers | Mar 11, 2011 | Comment Now

International experience highlights effort required.

Telco/ISP

Conroy wins bigger comms role

By Ry Crozier | Sep 11, 2010 | 23 Comments

Cabinet shake-up.

Strategy

Australia Post targets digital economy

By Liz Tay | Jul 27, 2010 | Comment Now

Strives to keep from being a ‘burden to the taxpayer’.

Strategy

Top 10 policy ideas from IIA's Digital Economy Paper

By Brett Winterford | Jul 26, 2010 | Comment Now

Comment: A concise guide.

Telco/ISP

UK's Digital Economy Bill passes into law

By Phil Muncaster | Apr 11, 2010 | 1 Comment

Digital Economy Act 2010 could still be altered in next parliament.

Telco/ISP

Conroy vows to tackle illegal file sharing

By Ben Grubb | Jul 15, 2009 | 19 Comments

Government promises to "facilitate" a solution.

Strategy

ACS wants Gershon savings put into ICT pilots

Dec 1, 2008 | Comment Now

Part of the $400m in yearly savings that the government is expected to get by implementing all of the Gershon report’s recommendations should be put back into ICT pilot ...

Finance

Secrets of the underground economy

By Kathryn Small | Dec 1, 2008 | Comment Now

In IRC channels and web-based forums, the underground economy is thriving, according to the latest year-long report by Symantec. Find out how much a botnet or a set of credit ...

Training & Development

Virtual economy is on the up

By Emma Hughes | Aug 23, 2008 | Comment Now

Sweatshops are far more fun than they used to be – multiplayer online games have given rise to an ever-growing virtual economy.

Telco/ISP

$20m iPhone injection could boost Aussie adoption of 3G

By Ashley Clark | Jul 14, 2008 | Comment Now

Market researcher IbisWorld has predicted that Friday’s launch of the iPhone across Australia delivered $20 million into the economy in just a matter of hours.

Strategy

IBM worms its way into African economy... with chocolate

By Sylvie Barak | Jun 28, 2008 | Comment Now

The latest corporate giant trying to get its teeth into Africa has come up with a novel approach: woo the locals with chocolate.

Security

Underworld economy runs on bots and spam

By Shaun Nichols | Apr 11, 2008 | Comment Now

The world of cybercrime is thriving on spam and the means of distributing it, say security experts..

Hardware

Cutting green projects is a 'false economy'

By Iain Thomson | Apr 4, 2008 | Comment Now

Companies tempted to cut back on 'soft' IT projects like green computing to save money could end up with major bills further down the line..

Telco/ISP

Hostworks warns new Government to invest in broadband backbone

Nov 26, 2007 | Comment Now

Hostworks managing director, Marty Gauvin has warned the incoming Federal Government that Australia’s broadband infrastructure hinders the nation's ability to compete internatio...

Finance

IT worth US$2 trillion to the US economy

By Robert Jaques | Mar 14, 2007 | Comment Now

Technology behind almost all US economic growth in the past decade.

Strategy

Australia drops out of IT economy top 10

Mar 10, 2005 | Comment Now

Australia has dropped two places to rank 11 in the World Economic Forum’s 2004-2005 Global Information Technology Report.