EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

In a huge day of technology news today, Corning was announced as winners of the fibre optic cable tender for stage one of the Tasmanian NBN and Amazon.com announced the Kindle eBook reader is finally coming to Australia.

Meanwhile in the Federal Court, ISP iiNet was given a chance to defend itself against allegations it allowed subscribers to infringe the copyright of the film industry.

-- Brett Winterford

MOST READ Revealed: iiNet's film copyright defence AFACT claims 100K copyright breaches on iiNet Day Two: iiNet, Westnet email trails revealed Background: Film industry vs ISP iiNet Internode drops Optus ADSL2+ offering LATEST COMMENTS "@Sams: Good point. I was thinking too narrowly! " on Day Two: iiNet, Westnet email trails revealed by tallguy' Oct 8, 2009 4:33 PM' "Ahhhh you shouldn't be picking on RFUKT, I mean Walt Dizzy - the feeder of evil junk food ..." on Day Three: iiNet deals with thousands of "robot notices" by Jahm Mitt' Oct 8, 2009 4:18 PM'

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Staff writers | October 08, 2009

NBN Tasmania awards fibre contract to Corning Cable Systems.

By Liz Tay | October 08, 2009

Shipping October 19.

By Ry Crozier | October 08, 2009

"Contractual relationships" stay confidential.

By Ry Crozier | October 08, 2009

Other ISPs alleged to be in same boat.

By Staff writers | October 08, 2009

Compromised machines in retail outlets.

By Ben Grubb | October 08, 2009

Hints Google has signed on as a customer.

By Iain Thomson | October 08, 2009

Life just got easier for lots of IT managers.

By Brett Winterford | October 08, 2009

Further calls for ISPs to police the internet.

By David Neal | October 08, 2009

Companies promise no disruption to customers.

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