Features

• Home Wi-Fi networks the next target for cyber crime: Layer 10

  Wi-Fi may be the networking method of choice among apartment blocks cropping up in increased numbers in Australia’s major cities, however increased reliance on wireless internet is resulting in more security risks, according to Layer 10 Consulting.

• Tasmanian NBN Co appoints board

  The Tasmania NBN Co Limited (TNBN Co) has been established to rollout and operate the National Broadband Network in Tasmania.

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  Telstra stifling broadband growth for the last 15 years: Austar CEO

  Telstra’s stake in the Foxtel pay television network has been a major inhibitor to the growth of broadband in Australia according to John Porter, CEO at pay television provider Austar.

• Reform Commission lays out e-health recommendations

  There is increasing frustration and mounting cynicism with the pace of action on implementing a national e-health platform, according to a National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report released today.

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  NSW puts in bid to host NBNCo

  The NSW government has made its bid to be the home state of the National Broadband Network with the launch of a new promotional video.

• NBNCo board, chair working under market rates: Conroy

  The Federal Governemnt is expected to announced the full management team of the National Broadband Network Company (NBNCo) shortly, according to Communications minister Stephen Conroy.

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  NBN to accelerate botnet attacks?

  The National Broadband Network (NBN) could prove to be a best friend to cyber criminals, according to the head of the Australia's National Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT).

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  Rural blackspots to get priority in NBN roll-out

  The Federal Government is to spend up to $250 million on new backbone transmission links to a number of regional centres including Broken Hill, Darwin and Geraldton, as part of its Regional Backbone Blackspots Program.

• ACS, AIIA promote National ICT Careers Week

  The National ICT Careers Week will again be held this year in an effort to increase the uptake of IT education and training.

• Telstra calls for new independent Telecommunications Adjudicator

  Telstra has acknowledged wider telecommunications industry concerns about the need for greater equivalence and transparency in its submission to the National Broadband Network: Regulatory Reform for 21st Century Broadband discussion paper.

• Inside Telstra's NBN

  Telstra has devoted over three years and some 900 engineers to designing a national fibre network, and Acaltel has chipped-in 1000 of its own engineers who have devoted an estimated 1.5 million hours on the project. Telstra offered a glimpse of some of the technology behind its $10B bid for the National Broadband Network (NBN)