Stories about: ACA

Consumer groups' support of Kazaa met strong resistance at the closely watched Kazaa court trial on Tuesday, as the music industry claimed the peer-to-peer software was not a community interest.

Regional and rural NSW utility Country Energy has announced it has been trialling Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) technology successfully at 45Mbps speeds with residents in the Queanbeyan area, with the promise of 200Mbps in the coming months.

Broadband customers in the US looking for an alternative to cable-modem or DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) service may not have long to wait for broadband over powerline service (BPL), according to a white paper published Thursday by a technology-focused research group.

Australia, the US and UK have joined forces in the fight against spam with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Washington over the weekend.

Telstra has implemented new terms and conditions and revised its acceptable use policy for customers across its BigPond ADSL and cable broadband services in a bid to cut back further the level of spam hitting its network.

Labor has conceded the high ground to the government and will not block the passage of the Spam Bill in the Senate, Shadow Communications Minister Kate Lundy has revealed to Computerworld. Labor had proposed a series of amendments relating to search and seizure powers to be granted to the Australian Communications Authority.

Red Hat is expecting to get greater penetration into the Australian Enterprise market thanks to a distribution agreement struck with market heavyweight Ingram Micro.

Linux vendor Red Hat has confirmed that it will no longer offer consumer (pocketbooks) and professional (retail boxes) editions of its software once current stocks of its Red Hat version 9.0 have been depleted.

A new global numbering domain system designed to converge telephone numbers with Internet addresses will hit Australian shores whether the local industry actively trials the technology or not, industry representatives claim.

Delivering on its commitment to equally support the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) alongside the competing .Net environment, Accenture Ltd. on Monday will announce a new Java application framework for BEA Systems Inc.'s Weblogic e-Business Platform.

Queensland distributor Manaccom has scored a deal with Red Hat to bring its Linux 7.1 products to a wider range of resellers in Australia.