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Broadband blog
THE first Australian IT Super Blog continues this week at australianit.com.au, with bloggers lining up from the ACTU, the telcos and the federal Government to argue their side of the national broadband network debate as the November 26 bidding deadline ticks down.
Optus promises integrated Zoo
OPTUS is relaunching its Optus Zoo content portal with new technology that allows people to personalise the content on either their Optus mobile content menu or MyZoo web homepage and have the changes automatically appear in the other medium.
E-commerce advocate setting up in Australia
Fran Foo E-COMMERCE advocate NetChoice, which counts the internet's most-recognised names as members, has established an Australian chapter.
Canberra calls net filter trial
Fran Foo THE federal Government has released details of its long-awaited call for expressions of interest on live internet-service-provider content filtering trials.
IT Super Blog
ON Thursday The Australian IT section will publish on australianit.com.au our first Super Blog in the run up to the deadline for the national broadband network.
Museum gives brush-off to old art storage methods
Fran Foo OVER the next three years, Euan Upston will be focused on his pet project, bringing the works at the Museum of Contemporary Art to the online world.
Net too loose, says security guru
Karen Dearne INTERNET use will have to be "strictly regulated" if global authorities are to have any chance of slowing the growth of cyber-crime, warns Russian anti-virus guru Eugene Kaspersky.
Google's version of Wikipedia goes multi-lingual
GOOGLE on Thursday made its version of communally constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
Microsoft Office to go on the web
THE next upgrade of Office business software from Microsoft will include a version that edits word processing documents and spreadsheets inside a web browser, the software maker said.
Download caps hold back ABC's iView
Andrew Colley THE ABC is working closely with the internet industry to overcome service limitations holding back its newly launched internet broadcasting service iView.
Google considers local centre
Fran Foo GOOGLE has quietly dispatched a team of experts from the US on a fact-finding mission to decide whether it should establish a data centre in Australia.
Feedback leaves eBay buyer in hot soup
A BRITISH man is facing legal action for libel after leaving negative feedback for an item he bought on auction website eBay.
Online shopping growth flat: ACMA
GROWTH in the number of Australian internet users shopping online has flattened, a new report by the communications regulator has revealed.
AAPT boss calls for broadband rethink
Michael Sainsbury DAYS after pulling AAPT out of the Terria broadband consortium last week, the telco's chief executive Paul Broad has called for an independent inquiry into the broadband issue and a recasting of the Government process.