The New Zealand Government has announced plans to create a state-owned investment company that will spearhead its $1.5 billion National Broadband Network initiative.
A WiMax trial Energy Australia has been running with Alcatel-Lucent in the Newcastle region has come up trumps, with early results being much better than expected.
Networking vendor Netgear has announced the voluntary recall yesterday of its XE103 Powerline Ethernet Adapter after test results confirmed the product could overheat and malfunction.
Aurora Energy has decided to withdraw from a three-year-old broadband-over-powerline experiment as a result of cost pressures.
With the election looming, there does appear to be one issue that both Liberal and Labor can agree on: broadband over powerline could one day be used to get Internet access to Australia's remotest regions.
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.
The Internet pioneer has big ideas for Google Earth and mobile phones. He's also got his eyes on outer space.
Connection speeds that Australians can only dream of are readily available to South Korean consumers and businesses -- thanks to government support for a massive infrastructure rollout.
A key electronics industry group has approved a significant standard for wireless broadband specifications known as "WiMax," giving a boost to a technology proclaimed as a breakthrough for cheap high-speed Internet access.
Disposable satellite transmitters, inexpensive medical testing equipment and sensors for automatically tracking inventory or traffic patterns will become possible over the next 10 years through developments in nanotechnology, speakers at the Nanotech 2003 conference said Monday.
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