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Hacker groups Anonymous and Lulz Security have called for a boycott of PayPal to punish the electronic payments firm for its refusal to accept donations for WikiLeaks. PayPal, Visa and MasterCard have stopped accepting donations for WikiLeaks in December after the website began releasing sensitive US State Department cables. PayPal says the decision to restrict [...]

The National Broadband Network will on Friday plug the first East Coast site into the super-fast grid. It is coming a day after NBN Co released the third edition of its Wholesale Broadband Agreement and a discussion paper providing an overview of its planned Special Access Undertaking. It sets out the arrangements for the delivery [...]

A German hacker group has called for online users to circulate altered versions of the 1500-page manifesto by Norwegian terrorist suspect Anders Behring Breivik, until the original document is drowned out by copies. ‘Ensure that Anders becomes a joke, so nobody takes him seriously any more,’ declared the hacker group Anonymous on Tuesday. In the [...]

More businesses are taking advantage of the internet, with many finding the move online creates more revenue, a new survey has found. Research by accounting software provider MYOB has found that the number of Australian businesses now online has increased to 39 per cent, up from 35 per cent last November, with a further 22 [...]

Households will pay at least $60 – and up to $190 – a month for internet services on the National Broadband Network, data from an internet provider shows. The first retail pricing for services over the $36 billion NBN were released by internet provider Internode on Thursday. Packages start at $59.95 a month for a [...]

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 infrastructure. [...]

McDonald’s has found itself in serious damage control after the circulation of a discriminative image on the internet. The photograph appeared on Twitter on the weekend and shows a hoax sign that was allegedly posted on a McDonald’s staff notice board. The sign says an insurance measure due in part to a recent string of [...]

Telstra’s original broadband proposal was an ‘illusion’ that could never have worked, the boss of the national competition watchdog says. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Graeme Samuel said Telstra’s proposal for a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband network, or fibre to the street corner, was never going to work. ‘I can now summarise that 2006 [...]

Two children have been rescued during a federal police sting that saw 11 men charged with sharing child abuse images in a nationwide pornography network. The AFP said the two children were removed from harm after being identified during a four-month operation. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) alleges photos accessed by the network include images [...]

A $9 billion deal between Telstra and NBN Co on delivery of the national broadband network is being delayed by speculation over Australia’s political future. The Australian Financial Review reports that NBN Co. and Telstra have drawn up a series of ‘wipeout clauses’ in the event the $36 billion project is cancelled or scaled back [...]