Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's speech attacking the Coalition Party's broadband policy in the National Press Club yesterday was rude, vulgar and lacking in evidence, according to Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Yesterday, the communications minister delivered a strong rebuff to the proposed alternatives to the National Broadband Network (NBN) that have been outlined by Turnbull since August

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Conroy speech 'lacking evidence': Turnbull

Although the competition watchdog struck out clauses banning wireless promotion in the National Broadband Network Company's (NBN Co) contracts with Telstra and Optus, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that he believes nothing will change. Stephen Conroy (Credit: Josh Taylor/ZDNet Australia) Following the submission of Telstra's structural separation undertaking (SSU), it was revealed that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) had sought to remove a clause in Telstra's $11 billion agreement with NBN Co that would have prevented it from promoting wireless as a substitute for NBN services. In response to a question from press-gallery journalists after his speech at the National Press Club in Canberra today, Conroy said that a new clause has replaced the former wireless-promotion clause with one that mirrors the false and misleading advertising section of the Trade Practices Act , which would prevent the telcos from launching ads claiming wireless to be faster than fibre

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Telstra wireless ads still controlled: Conroy

Google Wallet does a good job of storing passwords but doesn't encrypt the entire credit card number, balance and other information, a research firm said today after testing the application on a rooted device.

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Google Wallet partly unencrypted: report

Ticketek is in the process of eliminating the need for paper tickets for events, with the company officially announcing its roll-out of mobile tickets. (Screenshot by Michael Lee/ZDNet Australia) Customers will be able to purchase tickets from Ticketek and send them to their own or their friends' smartphones. At participating venues, mobile ticket holders can walk up with their smartphone and have the barcode on its screen scanned

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Ticketek puts more tech into its tickets

Despite its hype, most Aussie respondents to the ZDNet IT Priorities survey are not venturing into the cloud anytime soon. So, how can cloud vendors do a better selling-job

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IT Priorities: clouds forecast, but hardware reigns

Not unlike an iPhone launch , the major Aussie telcos have waited until the eleventh hour before announcing pricing for the new Android flagship Galaxy Nexus, with Telstra selling the device as of tomorrow . (Credit: Google) All three major telcos will be offering the Galaxy Nexus on 24-month contract terms, with Vodafone also including the handset on 12-month contracts with a higher per-month handset repayment option. Vodafone is pretty much neck-and-neck for pricing across all cost tiers, matching data inclusions as well as per-month prices

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Australia has slipped from 18th to 21st in the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) rankings for fixed-broadband services, while wireless percentages continue to soar.

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Oz slides on OECD fixed-broadband ranks

The heated debate about internet filtering has calmed down this year, with voluntary filtering at several ISPs drawing little of the chanting, marching and petitioning that we saw two years ago. Does this fact, paired with recent statistics showing that Telstra's filter is keeping at least a few sickos from casual child porn access, legitimise the case for moderate internet filtering?

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Has Telstra made 84,000 reasons to filter?

Whinging Telstra shareholders followed Malcolm Turnbull's lead, showing no shame in comparing the government-driven separation of Telstra to authoritarian regimes where citizens have few rights and live in perpetual fear of starvation, torture, imprisonment and death. As hypocritical complaints mount over the latest NBN schedule, one wonders whether we could put some perspective back into the NBN debate â?? or have anti-NBN crusaders jumped the shark for good?

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Foes liken NBN to Nth Korea, want it anyway

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Greens communications spokesperson Scott Ludlam have slammed a report that calls the National Broadband Network (NBN) "extreme government intervention", labelling the report as right-wing dogma.

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Conroy, Ludlam slam EIU anti-NBN report