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ISP Data Retention seems to me to be a "very courageous" policy as Sir Humphrey might warmly advise Minister Hacker. As usual the essence of the advice eludes Hacker. If Brandis or Turnbull or Abbott were actually named "Hacker" would it still elude them? Probably.

7th November 2014

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Inabox Group acquires Anittel for $10 million, jobs to go; Now TPG increases Amcom stake; Aussies to break online shopping records; Half of mobile users could switch carriers; Telstra announces ?4GX?; Soprano Gamma brings IP to enterprise messaging ; Airports prepare for the ?connected traveller? ; Turning phone waste into art ; Scammers scam the scam watcher; Turnbull defends data retention; OPINION Turnbull?s data retention hypocrisy revealed; Canberra?s CBRfree Wi-Fi network launches ;...

7th November 2014

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Turnbull defends data retention; OPINION Turnbull?s data retention hypocrisy revealed; Canberra?s CBRfree Wi-Fi network launches; IBM signs major Chinese cloud deal; Lenovo completes Motorola acquisition; Pure Storage joins OpenStack.

3rd November 2014

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COVER STORY DATA RETENTION; Government moves on data retention; Industry falls into line; Senators try to stop data retention; Australian businesses support data retention but worried about cost and cybercrime; OPINION 1 Data retention ? secrecy by Government, pussyfooting by Labor; OPINION 2 Labor tops the polls in hypocrisy ; AWS gets the tick for government use; Vocus goes after Amcom; Megaport splits and expands; iiNet Downloaders Club; Telstra?s Asian strategy revealed;...

31st October 2014

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Government moves on data retention; Industry falls into line; Australian businesses support data retention but worried about cost and cybercrime; OPINION Labor tops the polls in hypocrisy; Smartphone market booming; Telstra and Motorola in the fast LANES; Ericsson Sparks in New Zealand; and Spark opens new data centre.

31st October 2014

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OPINION Data retention ? secrecy by Government, pussyfooting by Labor; iiNet?s free Wi-Fi network for Victoria; and 100 Mbps HFC in Geelong; Hitachi CaaS moves into Equinix data centres; TelSoc AGM focus on NBN; Demand for iPhone 6 boosts Apple?s euro sales; Don?t call me ? ever; Use NBN for the good of society, says ITU.

30th October 2014

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Australia?s surveillance future ?data retention, more powers for ASIO, less oversight; Government acting like Big Brother ? Greens; Business backs data retention ? with oversight; OPINION Anti-terror laws are working ? so why do we need data retention?; Mike Quigley on FTTN versus FTTdp; Harbour IT becomes part of Canon; Vodafone revamps prepaid offerings; NTT DoCoMo establishes 5G research lab; Half IT shops aren't storing all valuable data.

29th September 2014

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ANALYSIS  Government backtracks on metadata, while Optus warns of costThe Government now says that metadata will not include your browsing history. But there is still confusion over just what it does include ? and how much it will cost.

11th August 2014