Broadband

Telco sector memo to Malcolm Turnbull: please be decisive

Lucy Battersby The telecommunications industry has called on new Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to be quick and decisive as he decides what to do with the national broadband network.

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Leadership

Google Australia chief wants NBN benefits to flow

Maile Carnegie left a 21-year career at Procter & Gamble to run Google Australia. She talks to Lia Timson in her first interview since taking up the post.

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Business

Shift thinking on NBN: Google boss

Lia Timson Google's new Australian boss has expressed frustration that the broader economic benefits of the NBN are not being recognised.

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Broadband

Affordable internet alliance launched to drive down broadband prices

Lia Timson The father of the world wide web and some of ithe internet's most influential interests are joining forces to drive the cost of universal broadband access down and eliminate the world's digital divide.

Broadband

Ziggy Switkowski is back: dumped Telstra boss appointed NBN chair

He was dumped by Telstra and spent just one chaotic year at Optus.

Privacy

Tweet away but the boss is watching

Employers are allowing workers private internet use but there are strings attached, reports Nate Cochrane.

Workplace

ATO ramps up cyber-snooping on workers

Noel Towell Australian Taxation Office bosses have stepped up cyber-snooping on their employees, unions allege, after management went to some lengths to bust a worker using Facebook and real estate sites while on the job.

NBN

Website crowd-funds NBN FOI request

Lucy Battersby Australians are desperate enough for details about the National Broadband Network that they are willing to pay for it themselves.

Broadband

NBN Co corporate plan shows project on track

Lucy Battersby The cost of connecting each premise to the NBN has dropped to less than $2500, a leaked copy of NBN Co's latest three-year plan shows.

Procurement

Local councils club together to save on software

Sylvia Pennington NSW local authorities have harnessed group buying power to negotiate a software licensing agreement and save $3 million.

Procurement

NSW to take to the cloud, develop digital strategy

Sylvia Pennington Increasing government use of cloud computing and improving the skills of government IT workers are next on the NSW technology reform agenda.

Broadband

Malcolm Turnbull issues new instructions to NBN Co

Lucy Battersby NBN Co told to complete existing fibre construction contracts and to start testing copper-based broadband technologies, but has left long-term changes to the project to the outcome of a strategic review and independent audit.

Surveillance

NSW prison jams smuggled phones

Nick Ralston Prisoners can forget about using smuggled mobile phones with a NSW jail becoming the first in Australia to introduce phone-jamming technology.

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Open source

Open-source platform gains popularity in government

Stuart Corner So popular has a little-known open-source program become within federal government agencies that there is now a shortage of expertise in Canberra.

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Broadband

Malcolm Turnbull called for NBN Co board's scalps

Paul Osborne and Lisa Martin Malcolm Turnbull will release an interim statement of expectations to NBN Co today, with new instructions for the government-owned enterprise.

Broadband

Coalition wrecking NBN: Anthony Albanese

Lucy Battersby and Madeleine Heffernan Anthony Albanese says news that NBN Co's board is resigning en masse is a sign the Coalition is wrecking the NBN.

Government

Soldier apps to help with PTSD

Sylvia Pennington New apps and doctor tools aim to help military personnel who've become psychological casualties of war.

Government

Government departments failing to recoup personal phone costs: Auditor-General

Lucy Battersby Government departments are failing to keep strict controls on phone expenses, according to the Victorian Auditor-General.