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Issue #66 of Geare magazine is out now and features a terrific article by Neerav Bhatt explaining Australia’s National Broadband Network, how it is being built and what it is trying to achieve. Neerav goes into detail about the fibre technology being used and the alternatives, the cost, and the implications for consumers. He stops …

Last week’s Digital Directions 11 conference held in Sydney by Fairfax Media and X Media Lab lived up to expectations by bringing together many of the world’s leading thinkers in digital media. Prominent amongst them were the American digital media pioneer Robert Tercek and the Australian born entrepreneur Tan Le. Both are also featured prominently …

On Thursday March 3 some of the world’s foremost thinkers in the field of digital media will gather in Sydney for the annual Digital Directions conference. Hosted by Fairfax Media and powered by X Media Lab, Digital Directions (previously run as Media 09 and Media 10) has proven to be one of the most informative …

For the past two days speakers at the  Broadband & Beyond 2011 conference have been discussing the evolution of broadband services and the applications that will run on them. Much of the discussion has centred on the federal government’s National Broadband Network, and so there was much interest in the opening address of day 2, …

While much is made of the Digital Natives who have grown up online, one sector with much to gain from the development of online services is the world’s population of senior citizens. In A Faster Future we focus on the role that broadband applications and services can play in assisting senior citizens, both in terms …

While some sectors of the advertising industry have struggled in recent years, online advertising has gone from strength to strength. The latest predictions from the Online Advertising Bureau (IAB) Australia have online advertising spending hitting AU$3 billion by 2012, well up from the AU$2.27 billion reported for 2010. Online advertising spending in Australia for the …

For most Australians the data speeds promised by the National Broadband Network won’t become a reality for some years yet. But  residents of Point Cook in Melbourne are already getting a taste for a world where connections to the Internet runs at 100Mbit/sec. Point Cook is a test site for Telstra’s fibre-to-the-home trial network, with …

It was way back in 1995 that the US start-up WebTV first began promoting its idea for a web-connected television experience. It probably wasn’t the first, and it certainly hasn’t been the last. But 15 years later, for most people their Internet and their TV set remain sadly isolated. There have been some attempts to …

A new report from the US Federal Communications Commission has shown that when it comes to the ongoing development of online service delivery it is important to remember that not everyone is so readily able to join in. The survey of 5005 Americans taken in late 2009 found that 78 percent of adults were Internet …

Smart grid technologies offer to save power companies potentially millions of dollars by helping them to better manage their networks, while saving consumers potentially hundreds by helping them manage their consumption. So it’s not surprising then to hear that NSW energy retailer EnergyAustralia is in talks with the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) to …