The Federal Parliament's new Joint Select Committee on Cyber Safety has launched its inquiry into the safety of children and young people on the Internet.

The ITU has set up a new focus group on cloud computing "to enable a global cloud computing ecosystem where interoperability facilitates secure information exchange across platforms."

The Federal Court has set 2- 5 August 2010 to hear AFACT's appeal against the judgement brought against in its attempt to sue iiNet for breach of copyright over iiNet customers downloads of copyrighted movies.

Huawei says it will create 200 new jobs in Victoria over the next three years. However no details have been given.

Japan's largest telco, NTT Com is offering citizens telephone numbers for their dogs, and other pets. The idea is not as daft as it might seem.

What does business continuity mean to you? For Microsoft Global Security it can involve locking a door from the other side of the world.

The Chinese owners of the massive multiplayer online game, Evony, dropped a libel case against British blogger Bruce Everiss after two days of hearings, the Guardian reports.

An online chemicals supplier finds benefits in using mostly Microsoft software. A case of the whole being more than the sum of the parts?

The sniping between Adobe and Apple over who's really open shows no signs of abating, as Adobe takes out a "pro-freedom" ad and the company's founders speak up for innovation.

The space shuttle Atlantis has lifted off from the surface of Earth for its final trip into outer space. Its six-person crew is heading for the International Space Station to perform spacewalks and install components to the orbiting structure.