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Thanks to a flurry of recent research, we now have a much clearer picture of just how much influence the Internet is having on Australian business and the economy generally. A new report from Deloitte Access Economics and Google shows for the first time just how big the contribution really is. More information in this …

Brad Howarth and Janelle Ledwidge are pleased to announce the official release of their new book, A Faster Future – The future of broadband: what it means for business, society and you. Featuring insights from more than 100 leading executives, entrepreneurs, researchers and commentators from Australia and around the world, A Faster Future is an …

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 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 …

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 …

Cloud computing is giving many businesses the opportunity to use advanced software products without having to shell out money upfront on server hardware and software licences by accessing their software over the internet. But it is also changing the way that we think about computing. It used to be that operating system was one of …

The Swedish web company Pingdom has released an interesting set of statistics on the growth of the internet in 2009. Amongst the numbers that Pingdom collated were: – 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009 – 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day – 234 million …

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 …

There is a good chance that faster broadband can help us deal with some of the issues that we will have to face as Australia’s population ages.