Microsoft 'Natal' will replace controller

Microsoft has made a bold play by announcing a 'controller free' Xbox experience called 'Project Natal' using full body motion capture and voice recognition offering a jaw-dropping concpet of the future.

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'Having a look at it is not a crime'

Last night Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy uttered nine words that hold enormous implications for Australian internet users.

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Police raid Wikileaks.de domain owner Theodor Reppe's home over 'censorship lists' | News.com.au

POLICE have raided a Wikileaks associate's homes in Dresden and Jena after the website published a list of banned websites.

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Wikileaks to Conroy: your move - Whirlpool Broadband News

Wikileaks claims it now has up to date ACMA blacklists of banned websites dated 11 March and 18 March — only days old.

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ACMA blacklist leaked to Wikileaks? - Whirlpool Broadband News

ACMA's secret list of banned web pages has reportedly been leaked to Wikileaks.org. ...

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ACMA takes aim at Whirlpool, supplier | Australian IT

IN an unprecedented move, Australia's communications regulator has threatened to fine a company up to $11,000 a day for indirectly leaking part of its top-secret list of banned internet web pages.

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Freeview behind parody video being taken off YouTube

A SPOOF video poking fun at digital TV coalition Freeview was taken offline after a request from the group's lawyers, YouTube says.

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Telstra to boost cable to 100Mbps - Whirlpool Broadband News

Telstra will upgrade its cable internet to 100Mbps by Christmas, announced outgoing Telstra chief Sol Trujillo.

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Australians now spend much more time online | The Courier-Mail

AUSTRALIANS spend most of their waking hours consuming media and are spending more time online than ever before, a study has found.

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Who gives good broadband? - Core Frequency - Blogs - PC Authority

The results from Whirlpool's annual Australian Broadband Survey are in, and as always they make interesting reading.

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Earth tremor rocks metropolitan Melbourne

The centre of Melbourne has been rocked by an earth tremor, with worried residents reporting buildings shaking across the metropolitan area.

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'Help. I've found an ant in my house' - BrisbaneTimes

A woman who wanted council workers to retrieve $200 she had accidentally flushed down the toilet, and a man demanding fines be handed out for trees "littering" their leaves in his street have topped a list of strange requests made to Brisbane City Council's call centre in recent  …

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Call for urgent ACCC intervention to 'stop Telstra stealing customers' say competitors

There's been a call for urgent action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to intervene in Telstra's plans to reportedly forcibly disconnect competitions in a Canberra exchange.

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Exchange closure nets customers for Telstra, irks iiNet - broadband, iinet, Telstra - Computerworld

iiNet has rejected Telstra's claims it is not to blame for the closure of its Canberra exchange and subsequent disconnection of 42 customers from rival ISPs.

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Last rites for the landline as Optus joins the 'naked DSL' brigade - BizTech

Optus today joins iiNet and several smaller telcos in offering "naked DSL" packages that allow people to connect to ADSL broadband without paying for a fixed line.

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Revealed: ISPs detail their Aussie net filter trials - Internet - iTnews Australia

Participating ISPs say they will forge ahead with Internet filter trials, regardless of speculation around whether associated legislation will pass or be blocked.

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Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au

The Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started.

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Survey shows no mandate for internet filtering - Whirlpool Broadband News

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TV show delays drive Oz viewers to distraction

Australian TV viewers are waiting longer than ever to view their favourite overseas produced televisions shows, driving them to use BitTorrent and other internet-based peer-to-peer programs to download programmes from overseas, prior to their local broadcast.

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Women 'lose out' in IR changes

THE Federal Government's Work Choices legislation has hurt wages but helped improve company margins, a business researcher has found.

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Mocking condemned

FORMER Australian Test wicket-keeper Ian Healy has been condemned as insensitive and thoughtless after being caught on television mocking the breast cancer cause.

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Guus faces prison threat - Football - Fox Sports

DUTCH prosecutors have called for a 10-month jail sentence for former Australia coach Guus Hiddink on tax fraud charges, Dutch news agency ANP has reported.

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Talking about sex, baby

IT'S ALMOST as common as texting, and apparently given out with about as little thought for the consequences. Let's not be polite. It's the blow job, and a new survey reveals that teenage girls are dispensing them with a frequency that would shock their parents.

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Solidarity

Infamous car parts manufacturer Tristar is screwing its workers again, this time picking on a dying man. John Beaven put in 43 years of loyal service to the company, but now that he is on his death bed with cancer, the company is refusing to offer him a redundancy package:

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And for desert, vast food

Fast food becomes vast food with KFC turning a chunk of Nevada desert into a logo large enough to see from space.

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