Apple may have bowed to the ACCC's objections but this furore has the potential to expose the shady underbelly of the so-called fourth generation of mobile communication standards.

The cost of distributing media digitally is trending towards zero. It's time the industry stopped the denial, and business commentators learnt how digital technology actually works.

The internet is no longer some special, separate place that we visit from time to time. So let's drop the 'e' in front of commerce and admit it's now business as usual.

There is a dangerous complacency among Australian businesses about the threat of cybercrime - what if it was a tax?

Thanks to ubiquitous internet and 3G phone networks we no longer sit up in our chairs and "go online", which means the social TV phenomenon is here to stay.

Hopefully, there will come a time when international outsourcing and crowdsourcing websites are seen for what they are – exploitative.

Taken individually, none of the goals set out in Stephen Conroy's digital strategy require a multi-billion dollar, fibre-to-the-premises network. The government still hasn't told us why we need this, much to the amusement of Malcolm Turnbull.

When a website says they 'value your privacy' you should believe them, they're probably milking it for all it's worth.