Stories about: Department of Communications

The federal government has terminated the funding for the OPEL broadband network.

After slamming the OECD's findings on global broadband rankings as inaccurate, and accusing the Labor party of misleading the Australian public on its broadband adoption, IT minister, Senator Helen Coonan, may have some pie to clean from her face after an OECD spokesperson claimed the Minister's department had been directly involved in the formulation of the findings she was criticising.

The federal government backed IPv6 for e-Business project has yielded an Ubuntu-based IPv6 router that is now being trialled in business.

A new open source group, the Annodex Foundation, will be launched at the Australian Linux Conference being held in New Zealand this week.

IPv6 was declared a winner this week, by backers and sceptics alike, as it streamed the Melbourne Cup in a live multicast to a crowd attending the IPv6 summit in Canberra.

Guidelines proposed by the Australian Unix Users Group (AUUG) promoting a “level playing field” between open source and proprietary software within government departments are unnecessary, according to the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.

IBM has formed a joint venture with National ICT Australia (Nicta) to open its first Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) outside North America. The centre will focus on open source software with the anticipation of attracting the attention of government and enterprise IT departments with the researchers primarily based at the University of New South Wales.

An Australian Federal Police investigation into an alleged major organised criminal music piracy racket involving MP3s has seen Telstra deny that any police 'raids' have taken place on its premises.

The increasingly influential role of open source software as an alternative to proprietary solutions has prompted the federal government to put together a new seminar looking at the demand for open source systems across departmental agencies.

The Australian government's grand plan for the IT future of Australia was launched Monday at Sydney's Technology Park Redfern.