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Each year the Intelligent Community Forum searches the world for those communities that provide a model of economic and social development in the 21st Century using information and communications technology. The Top Seven for this year have just been announced – although unfortunately none of the nominated cities are from Australia (or indeed, from the …

The City of Chattanooga in the US state of Tennessee stands as a beacon to regional centres around the world who hope for a better future for their communities through deployment if high-speed broadband. Chattanooga was the first city in the US to adopt fixed-line broadband at speeds of 1 gigabit per second across the …

Today saw the launch of Cisco’s Connected World report, which examined the needs and expectations of the global workforce when it came to remote and flexible working. The report surveyed 2600 workers in 13 countries, including Australia. There were some interesting gems amongst the findings, including that 74 percent of Australians would take a pay …

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 …

The national broadband network (NBN) promises to deliver broadband speeds of 100 Mbps to around 90 percent of the Australian population within the next eight years.  Brad Howarth explores the seven key developments enabled by the NBN. (Nett Magazine) The New Broadband Network – What It Means For Your Business