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Newly appointed Shadow Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has experience in the dial-up business, not the broadband industry, according to Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.

Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has returned fire at his new shadow, Malcolm Turnbull, accusing the Liberal heavyweight of mindless opposition on the National Broadband Network issue.

Telstra has promised customers the long-awaited Android 2.2 update (Froyo) would be introduced to its flagship HTC Desire handsets within the next four weeks.

McAfee’s global CEO, Dave DeWalt, has warned of a huge rise in the amount of malware being spread across the Internet as a greater variety of devices get online and called on greater cooperation to combat the problem.

Greens Communications spokesperson, Senator Scott Ludlam, has welcomed Malcolm Turnbull’s appointment as Shadow Communications Minister but warned the Liberal heavyweight against “wrecking” Labor’s National Broadband Network project.

Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, says one of Malcolm’s roles as the new Shadow Communications Minister will be to expose problems with Labor’s National Broadband Network project with the aim of wooing independent MPs back to the Coalition’s camp.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel kicked off the second day of its developers conference by officially launching its app store and rolling out new Atom processors.

There’s a long history of politicians and governments having problems keeping their web sites up. Stephen Conroy himself had a little spot of bother with the National Broadband Network Implementation Study back in May when the lengthy document was finally published online.

Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has nominated broadband as the most important battleground and described it as a white elephant.

Shadow Communications Minister, Tony Smith, has been dumped from his role and replaced by former opposition leader, Malcolm Turnbull.