Property developers say the Federal Government should reimburse builders for some of the cost of installing fibre-optic cable to new homes.
Category: Technology news
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AFACT v iiNet: ISP hits back at studios
Internet service provider, iiNet, has hit back at claims by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) that its Notice of Contention is in essence an appeal against the Federal Court’s ruling, which found in favour of the ISP ordered the studios to pay the costs of the case.
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Telstra outlines LTE trial roadmap
Still gas left in HSPA tank.
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AFACT v iiNet: ISP files notice of contention
The legal battles in the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) v iiNet copyright court case continue. The internet service provider has served a notice of contention with the Federal Court of Australia on 14 grounds of Justice Cowdroy’s ruling.
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Breakfast briefing: Google has its eyes on your TV set
Everybody and their dog has been developing web-enabled TV sets recently, so perhaps no surprise to see that Google – the company that can’t keep its finger out of any pie it comes across – is working with Intel and Sony to create Android-compatible tellies. Somebody unlikely to be impressed by the 7,194th Google project, however, is outgoing US Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, who laid into the company for launching products “where the guiding privacy policy seems to be ‘throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks’”.
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HTC says will fight Apple lawsuit, stresses innovations
High Tech Computer (HTC) on Thursday said it plans to “fully defend itself” against the patent infringement lawsuit filed by Apple early this month, adding it has always respected the intellectual property of others and will continue to do so.
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Why short links can take a long time to get you around the web
Goo.gl good, fb.me bad: a study finds who’s quick off the mark in the link-shortening world.
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‘Mobile apps will outsell CDs by 2012’
Report for app store GetJar forecasts number of downloads will rise from 7bn in 2009 to almost 50bn in 2012.
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Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 9 – with support for HTML5
SVG, video, compiled Javascript.. but still lacking on the Acid3 front.
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Filter trial vendor sceptical over Internet clean-feed
M86’s Internet filter technology was originally designed for schools, not for an entire country.