TODAY ON ITNEWS
Telecommunications
Telstra "banging its shoe" on regulation: Budde
By
Nate Cochrane
| January 29, 2009
Telstra has used an overseas speech by one of its executives to lobby the Federal Government to give the telco a freer hand to control access to its network.
Hardware
Government funds 141,000 more school laptops
By
Staff writers
| January 29, 2009
The Federal Government has allocated second round funding of $141 million to enable almost 1400 schools nationwide to buy computers for students.
Internet
Google begins effort to find Internet blockers
By
Kim Dixon
| January 29, 2009
Google on Wednesday unveiled a plan aimed at eventually letting computer users determine whether providers like Comcast are inappropriately blocking or slowing their work online.
Internet
Opinion: Have money, will pay for clean feed
By
Ry Crozier
| January 29, 2009
Netspace may think that a survey that asks leading, obvious questions about Internet filtering contributes to discussion and debate but all it did was feed the Federal Government ammunition.
Hardware
LHC may not be as safe as we thought
By
Iain Thomson
| January 29, 2009
New research by three physicists has raised concerns over the safety of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is due to restart in June.
Business
EU presses forward with Intel case
By
Shaun Nichols
| January 29, 2009
Intel's attempt to push back its EU anti-trust case with AMD has been struck down.
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