CommsWire - 6 November 2017

Laying of southern portion of Hawaiki cable set to start The laying of the southern portion of the 15000km Hawaiki cable system from Sydney and then across the Pacific Ocean is poised to get underway, with more than 6500km of undersea fibre-optic cable on board the TE Subcom cable ship Responder berthed in the harbour city.

CommsWire - 22 September 2017

ICANN to update DNS security, ISPs must follow or risk outage For the first time ever, ICANN is changing the cryptographic keys that secure DNS. ISPs must ensure their software is up-to-date or risk their customers being unable to reach any site on the Internet.

CommsWire - 11 March 2016

Vodafone Australia paid no tax in 2014 ? Why?; ICANN submits plan to grab Internet functions off US Government; Optus Wi-Fi up and running at Mirvac shopping centres; Lenovo and Juniper team up to conceive next generation data centres; Avaya?s Zang enhances customer, employee comms; Samsung S7 and S7 edge swing into stores at long last; Bosch launches own cloud for its IoT services.

Rights protection in new gTLDs: The multi-stakeholder Internet governance model at work

In June 2008, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) embarked upon an ambitious program of expansion at the top-level of the DNS. The policy underpinning expansion is notable for its adoption of new mechanisms that target the unauthorised use in new gTLDs of names the subject of legal ? in particular trademark ? rights. This article examines the rights protection mechanisms which emerged at the end of 2012, and the ICANN organisational structure and operational...

What do the .XXX disputes tell us about Internet governance? ICANN's legitimacy deficit in context

This article evaluates ICANN's claims to legitimacy by means of a case study of the process for approving the controversial .XXX gTLD. An analysis of the disputes involving .XXX reveals flaws with ICANN?s structural and procedural safeguards. As this article argues, however, ICANN's weak claims to legitimacy do not necessarily mean that DNS management and policy-making should be transferred to an international treaty-based organisation.

CommsWire - 10 February 2016

Telstra suffers major mobile outage; New T9000 Trojan targets Skype users; Swedish exec to take over as ICANN chief; Nokia?s 5G showcase coming to MWC 2016 inc speeds over 30Gbps; Mobile Muster helps muster money for Salvos Red Shield Appeal; Kogan conjures cunning killer churn contrivance; Top networking transformative technology trends in 2016.

CommsWire daily news - 14 November 2014

Optus turns the corner ? profit, revenues, customers up; and introduces a mobile payments app; NBN Co formalises the multi technology mix; Optus selects NEC and NetCracker for OSS; and NEC wins deal to boost Solomon Islands mobile and broadband; US court stops attempt to seize domain names; Ericsson will cut jobs to cut costs; Kiwi telco levy draft published.

CommsWire daily news - 13 October 2014

OPINION Telstra cries poor ? NBN is hurting us!; intabank partners with Megaport; Are video calls making Aussies vain?; Wi-Fi Alliance upgrades Passpoint; and Ruckus expands Hotspot products; ICANN appoints compliance officer; Global Payments finalises Ezidebit purchase.

CommsWire weekly news - 11 July 2014

Expedia to buy Wotif; Triple Zero review; NT Government and Telstra connect the bush; My Net Fone acquires iBoss; Huawei Australia to expand into data centres; The Trans-Pacific Partnership debate; Zuckerberg says the Internet more important than the printing press; SubPartners to use NextDC's P1 for APX cables; Alcatel-Lucent hits 10 Gbps over copper; NewSat secures $11.7 million contract for Jabiru-2 capacity; Australia ?lags the world? on mobile strategy; Respecting your privacy ? new ?...

CommsWire daily news - 8 July 2014

Expedia to buy Wotif; Respecting your privacy ? new ?private cloud? to take on Facebook; Police are gathering your phone data by 'tower dumping'; AussieSim back as ZipTel ? to take on Skype; AussieSim announces record monthly SIM sales; M2 adds 100,000 users in the financial year; Telecom NZ invests in applications development startup App La Carte; Wi-Fi to get faster ? and faster and faster; ?Digital disruption? to cost banks $27 billion; RETROSPECTIVE 160 years of Australian...