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Tweet There was plenty of smiling and hand-shaking as Telstra and the government put pen to paper on an $11 billion deal – seen as one of the last major hurdles on the road to a National Broadband Network. But as the government celebrates – Internet service providers around the country are sifting through the [&hellip
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Tweet The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is poised to open a formal antitrust probe into whether internet search giant Google has abused its dominance on the web, The Wall Street Journal reports. The newspaper, citing ‘people familiar with the matter,’ said the FTC is preparing to serve Google with civil subpoenas ‘signalling the start [&hellip
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Tweet Men are leading the way when it comes to forging professional connections online, a new study has found. LinkedIn, a professional web-based networking site, studied the details of men and women across a range of industries and looked at the ratio of their online connections. Of their two million Australian users, they found that [&hellip
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Tweet Telstra Corporation Ltd has confirmed it has reached agreement with the federal government to progressively disconnect its copper network and participate in the rollout of the national broadband network (NBN). Telstra says the agreement will deliver approximately $11 billion in replacement revenue through disconnection payments, and new revenues through payments for access to its [&hellip
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Tweet The online community has been rattled by a decision by Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) to allow new domain names to be launched next year. The changes will allow up to 1000 new web variations at a price of $185,000. This new move will significantly expand the existing regime, although the [&hellip