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Coalition filtering swindle? Abbott and Turnbull play us for fools

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Coalition filtering swindle? Abbott and Turnbull play us for fools

Opinion: Shifty or merely incompetent? How could the Coalition release the wrong internet filtering policy?

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Coalition announces internet filter ... and immediately backs down

Turnbull backpedals on Internet filter (Thumbnail)
James Robertson, Ben Grubb and Heath Aston | Coalition makes embarrassing backdown from a commitment that it would require internet service providers to censor "adult content".

NSA defeats many online security measures

Encryption: The NSA has been able to defeat many online privacy and security measures.
9:09am | The NSA is winning its secret war on encryption with supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion, according to newly disclosed documents.

Australian teen tests Apple tolerance with new iPhone leak

Apple leaker Sonny Dickson.
11:18pm | Teen who built online following by leaking Apple products does it again, showing off purported iPhone fingerprint scanner.

Apple testing iPhone with 6-inch screen: report

iphone
11:22am | Apple is reportedly testing iPhone designs with screens larger than any it has had before in a bid to catch up to rival Samsung.

Kim Dotcom stands down from Mega

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom talks to members of the media as he leaves the High Court in Auckland in this February 29, 2012 file photograph. Search warrants used when 70 police raided Dotcom's New Zealand mansion were illegal, a New Zealand court ruled on June 28, 2012. German national Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, was one of four men arrested in January as part of an investigation of his Megaupload.com website led by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. REUTERS/Simon Watts/Files (NEW ZEALAND - Tags: CRIME LAW SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS PROFILE)
11:38am | Internet mogul Kim Dotcom says he will resign from Mega to focus on fighting extradition to the US and his plans for a New Zealand political party.

Sony Xperia Z1: hands on review

REFILE - ADDITIONAL CAPTION INFORMATIONSony Corp's President and Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai presents a new Sony Xperia Z1 smartphone during it's world premier at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, September 4, 2013. The IFA consumer electronics and home appliances fair will open its doors to the public from September 6 till 11 in the German capital. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)
12:05pm | Sony's Xperia Z1 is an Android leader in several areas, most notably with its 20.7-megapixel camera.

Google wants to keep scanning Gmail

Gmail
11:49am | Google's attorneys say their practice of electronically scanning the contents of Gmail accounts to help sell ads is legal.

Houston draws up spaceport plans

Houston's proposed spaceport
5:37am | Seeking to lead Houston into a future from aviation to aerospace, the Houston Airport System unveiled preliminary plans this week to develop a 450-acre spaceport at Ellington Airport.

Customer fury at Netspeed outage

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TOM MCILROY | Canberra internet provider NetSpeed Communications has defended its handling of a service outage that has resulted in some customers being offline for 10 days without any information or support from staff.

Bye bye bonus: technology workers' incentive on the out

Just one in four ICT workers received a cash bonus last financial year.
Sylvia Pennington 11:41am | Just one in four ICT workers received a cash bonus last financial year.

Canon Australia taps cloud to give consumers one photo bucket

Canon wants to help people manage their online images from one central cloud storage location.
Stuart Corner | Canon Australia will soon launch a cloud image storage service to give consumers a definitive home for all the photographs they might have spread across multiple websites and computers.

BlackBerry hopes to sell company by November: report

BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins.
11:06am | BlackBerry is in talks with several potential buyers and hopes to conclude a deal by November, according to a report.

Microsoft out $20 billion on Nokia deal

Microsoft took over Nokia's mobile business for $7.9 billion.
10:33am | Microsoft's $7.9 billion takeover of Nokia's handset business cost shareholders more than twice that.
 

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