April 11, 2013 Just two decades ago a dial-up internet connection would have taken more than a lifetime to download a single movie, while today's broadband connections can pull down several HD movie streams simultaneously.

April 11, 2013 The CSIRO has duped one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies into buying anti-counterfeit technology that could be easily compromised - passing off cheap chemicals it had bought from China as a ''trade secret'' formula.

April 10, 2013 Things had not been going well for DataTraceDNA.

April 10, 2013 NATIONAL: All the latest action from Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, including stories, photos and video.

April 10, 2013 It does not mean we will soon be exploring other planets or sending our own astronauts into orbit, but Australia now has its first ever space policy.

April 10, 2013 A self-confessed paedophile who sexually abused several boys in Sydney is being harboured by a leading Los Angeles Jewish welfare group.

April 10, 2013 The Coalition's cheaper and slower alternative to Labor's national broadband network has been labelled a ''nonsense'' by experts, who argue it will put Australia behind the rest of the world.

April 10, 2013 Gungahlin is experiencing the fastest take up rate in the nation for the national broadband network.

April 10, 2013 Australia's political leaders were effusive in their praise for the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher but the veteran television journalist George Negus recalled her as being ''as scary as any war zone I've been to''.

April 10, 2013 Iran may have executed four people accused of 'enmity against God and corruption on earth' but worldwide rates of capital punishment are dwindling, a global survey has found.