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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 …

Last year the US networking company Cisco revealed that thanks to its use of high-definition video conferencing, its Australian office had been able to save $890,000 in travel costs. Cisco’s Telepressence, and similar systems from Hewlett-Packard and Polycom, use broadband connections and high-definition televisions to capture and recreate images across multiple screens in a meeting …

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