 | | |  | The Coalition's planned broadband infrastructure will "freeze" broadband speeds, and need ongoing and expensive upgrading to resemble the system that Labor is already building, IT experts have warned. Ben Grubb reports. | | Top stories ASHER MOSES 2:44pm | The debate over the broadband plans of both Labor and the Coalition raises the question: how much speed do we actually need? | LIA TIMSON 3:05pm | Malcolm Turnbull says the Coalition's plan is the best it can do with what it might inherit. | Adam Turner 12:02pm | Tony Abbott says 25-Mbps NBN speeds are "more than enough", cementing his place in the short-sighted Hall of Fame. | | Grahame Lynch 2:09pm | Opinion: Four years ago, Labor was right to push for the NBN, but circumstances have changed. | BEN GRUBB | Telco experts are divided over which major political party's broadband policy is the best for Australia's future. | ROSS PEAKE | Communications Minister Stephen Conroy labelled the Coalition's plan as dumb for proposing to use Telstra's ageing copper wire network for broadband. | Vince Chadwick | Chances are most phone calls you have made from a landline have passed through a sturdy aluminium cylinder assembled by Tyrone Maloney. | Asher Moses 4:35pm | Kogan Mobile has filed a lawsuit against its major partner seeking to prevent further customer from being cut off. | James Dominguez 12:28pm | Defiance is a marriage of two media, consisting of a TV show on SyFy and an online multiplayer shooter created by MMO studio Trion Worlds. | 10:19am | Researchers are able to replace passwords with "passthoughts" by measuring brainwaves with biosensor technology. | 9:36am | A New Zealand intelligence agency that illegally spied on Kim Dotcom may have also misused its powers in dozens of other cases. | 10:00am | Google has picked tech-savvy Austin as the next city where the search giant will wire homes with ultra-fast internet connections. | 10:50am | Mark Zuckerberg's political advocacy start-up hasn't even launched yet and it's already generating controversy. | CHRIS JOHNSON | It does not mean we will soon be exploring other planets or sending our own astronauts into orbit, but Australia now has its first ever space policy. | Mahesh Sharma 12:22pm | An Australian crowdfunding website for non-profit and social organisations will make campaign managers return money to donors when projects fail. | 8:50am | Crowdfunding picked up steam in 2012 with some $US2.7 billion invested, a new study shows. | 12:16pm | Microsoft is skewering Google again with scathing ads in the US that reveal the animosity between the two rivals. | 11:28am | A hacker has pleaded guilty to cyber attacks on targets including Sony, Nintendo and Rupert Murdoch's News International. | 12:39pm | Cyber attacks against the United States from China are eroding the country's credibility, says a senior US official. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | | | | | Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. Be wary of suspicious emails claiming to offer Fairfax Media digital services. You are receiving this email as a registered Fairfax Media digital member. Your username is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. Your email address is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. If you do not want to receive further announcements from Fairfax Media digital, please unsubscribe here. Fairfax Media Limited. ABN 15 008 663 161.
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