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Since starting this project we’ve had a lot of requests from people wanting to know more. So it was great when the team at ITJourno contacted us to find out what A Faster Future is all about. The article is locked behind a paywall at the MediaConnect site, but news editor (and recently appointed features …

A report from the Australian Federal Government has found that Australians would rather use the Internet to interact with government services than to talk to someone face to face. According to Interacting with Government 2009, people  aged 55 to 64 were also the most frequent users of the Internet as a means of interaction with …

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 …

Australia’s media ownership laws have long been contentious, placing barriers on cross ownership of media and restricting (for better or worse, depending on your point of view) the reach that media companies can have across Australia’s population. It’s long been touted that these restrictions become meaningless in a broadband age, where a TV station for …

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 …

Last week saw the return of the annual Media 2010 conference in Sydney, hosted by XMediaLab and Fairfax. As in the past two years Media 2010 featured a variety of speakers from across the international media and advertising industries. Highlights amongst the presentations included the chief executive officer from Associated Northcliffe Digital (Daily Mail and …

If you wanted evidence of the rapid spread of the internet into the lives Australians, look no further than the figures recently released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Its report Household Use of Information Technology found that access to the internet at home between 1998 and 2008 increased by a factor of four from …

Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde has posted a thought provoking post on his Communication Breakdown blog at Business Spectator.  Budde contends that if we execute well on the National Broadband Network it will have enormous benefits for our country. To do so however the deployment of the NBN will have to be done in conjunction with …

Businesses of all sizes have not really gotten their heads around the NBN

Last week the online video services company Viocorp hosted an interesting webcast debate about the future of television. Panellists including ABC managing director Mark Scott and Beyond CEO Mikael Borglund discussed topics including the impact of broadband delivery on existing broadcasters, content creation funding models and the impact of other media on the television consumption …