A team of Australian scientists have demonstrated a photonic chip that boosts the data rate of fibre-optic connections by more than 64 times to 640Gbps, promising faster, cheaper internet for all.
Macquarie Telecom has extended its total ADSL2+ network to over 250 exchanges.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has talked up the prospects of the semantic Web, which he calls the "Web of the future".
The government has put out a tender for technical advice to help assess private sector proposals for the rollout of its national fibre-to-the-node network.
A report yesterday claimed that the cost of implementing a national broadband network could lead to an increase of 50 percent or more on home phone and Internet bills, but one analyst believes the only way to keep prices down is to leave Telstra out.
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
A few weeks ago, I was in Shanghai, at the Intel Developers Forum. Intel was keen to show off what it hopes will be the bridging device between high-end mobiles and laptops: the mobile Internet device or MID. Intel was showing off a lot of interesting things at the conference. The MID, sadly, was not one of them.
I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.
What's the first thing you look at when you check into a hotel room? The bed? The view? The minibar?
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
Experimental network excels at long-distance collaboration; researchers hope to up ante with hybrid optical packet infrastructure.
Intel predicted three years of solid development in wireless broadband on Tuesday, as it showed the first samples of its Rosedale 802.16 WiMax chip.
Wireless broadband provider, Unwired, has turned on its wireless broadband services across more than 40 Sydney suburbs today, bringing the company closer to the completion of its Sydney wide network.
They promise low-cost connectivity that could make conventional, expensive WANs a thing of the past. But can roll-your-own Internet VPNs really deliver?
Networking groups around the globe are working on ways to allow roaming on any number of wireless networks--just as mobile phone users roam on mobile networks.
Tim Berners-Lee, considered to be the father of the Web, speaks with scientists and Silicon Valley executives at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., about where he sees the Internet going in the next five years.
Most organisations see Facebook as a waste of time but they also want staff to collaborate, innovate and be more effective. According to Gartner's Stephen Prentice, social networking and virtual worlds could change the world in the same way the Internet has already done.
With McAfee Wireless Protection, McAfee enhances last year's stand-alone wireless protection application with a few new features, however much of what you can do with McAfee Wireless Protection is available for free with Windows XP.
D-Link's DCS-5300G is no real match for a dedicated wired and monitored solution, but it's also nowhere near as expensive.
Although ZoneAlarm's personal security tools are better overall, McAfee Internet Security 2005 offers richer, more configurable tools than Norton.
A broadband connection brings the Internet into your home at blazing speeds. And with a wireless, or Wi-Fi, network, you can get that access on multiple computers throughout your home -- and even outside -- without cords.
British Airways and other airlines are ready to offer online access to business travellers, despite some ongoing technical hitches.
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