B211 Labs - Current Affairs

Self-Test (Sample)

The following are excerpts from newpaper articles. Read the excerpts and answer the question below each excerpt.

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(20 June 2002)

THE number of broadband internet connections in Australia doubled from July 2001 to March 2002, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
The consumer watchdog has issued an update to its Snapshot of Broadband Deployment, a report providing statistics on broadband take-up across Australia.
Which broadband service was mentioned in the report as growing at the largest rate?

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(13 June 2002)

INTERNET hosting giant WebCentral has bowed to pressure from the anti-spam lobby and cancelled its account with an accused spammer.

Brisbane-based WebCentral is the second internet provider in less than a week to discontinue its services to Perth-based direct marketing firm T3 Direct.

WebCentral chief executive Lloyd Ernst told Australian IT the company cut services to T3 this morning after two weeks' investigation.
Why is T3 Direct gaining such attention from anti-spam groups?

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(17 June 2002)

IN a dramatic technological breakthrough, an Australian-based research team has teleported a message-encoded laser beam - bringing the science fiction fantasy of "beaming" humans from one place to another a step closer.
Although Star Trek-style planet hopping is way into the future, teleporting - disassembling objects in one place while a perfect replica is created elsewhere - promises to revolutionise computing and communications over the next decade.
What areas of Internet communications does this break-through have an impact on?

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