So has Facebook apparently. The first article has the timestamp: "July 6, 2011: 8:55 AM ET"
The point the author of the second article, some two years later, seems to be making is that they actually trust their employees.
Well apparently that's sort-of the idea. From TFA:
"We're proposing that the fourth dimension is time and that over time static objects will transform and adapt," he told the BBC.
Nick Xenophon has gone a little bit past having "lost interest" previously stating his opposition to the filter. He has also stated he isn't convinced the trial should go ahead in its current form:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/27/2503830.htm?site=local
"But I think the means of doing it really are very problematic and when ISP after ISP [are] saying that this won't work, it will slow down the internet for everyone, and it won't deal with the issue of the peer to peer networks that paedophiles use, then I think we really need to rethink this."
More importantly though, you seem to be under the impression that Conroy doesn't understand the political problem here. The last sentence from the above article states it quite nicely:
"A spokesman for Senator Conroy says the Minister is still looking into whether the filter would require legislation, or could be implemented through another means."
He's very aware that this isn't going to get through the legislative process. There are obviously other agendas involved that prevent common sense prevailing.
As already mentioned a couple of times, psion is still in business but they got out of the consumer market. They bought teklogix and only do industrial stuff these days (www.psion.com)
Having said that, I've read about this in a couple of places now and they apparently still provide support and accessories for the netBook and netBook pro so their actions do seem reasonable.
The netBook was their top of the line model at the time. They weren't really in the "organiser" class any more though as they distinctly resembled the netbooks of today. The psion series 7 was their flagship device in the former category, the netBook was a sub-notebook running Windows CE.
I would have really liked one at the time but they were astonishingly expensive.
You're partially right.
The last couple of stories have stated that it is the largest and second largest respectively. Completely wrong there, but it is the third largest by a significant margin (and has been for several years)
There is also a significant margin to the next largest (Optus) but it is still a very definite third. A quick google search proves that.
iiNet also has a large amount of infrastructure. Other comments have mentioned that they were the first to roll out ADSL2 and it certainly wasn't on Telstra equipment. Again, their infrastructure isn't to the scale of Optus and Telstra but they do have substantial presence.
You are also partially right on the last point. They aren't going after Telstra or Optus as they have a lot of resources behind them. iiNet is the perfect candidate to test the waters as they have enough marketshare for a win to actually be significant while not having the overpowering resources of the two largest players.
You are correct to doubt. TPG isn't owned by iiNet.
The only company that has been bought out by iiNet that has retained its own name is Westnet and that happened earlier this year.
TPG merged with Soul earlier this year as well but that's about it
Umm, actually iiNet was founded in 1993.
I think they won
As an aside, the title's a bit off. From the wikipedia link above - iiNet is Australia's third largest ISP, not the largest.
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