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  IN PICTURES: National Digital Economy Strategy - page by page
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  In Pictures: NBN rolls into Armidale

• Optus profit up while SingTel profit down

  By Spandas Lui | 13 February, 2012 11:52

  Optus profit up while SingTel profit down

• FCC map: Large areas not covered by mobile broadband

  By Grant Gross | 11 February, 2012 06:56

  Large portions of the western half of the U.S. do not have access to 3G or faster mobile broadband service, according to a new map released by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

• LTE boosts mobile gear by 17 per cent in 2012

  By Matt Hamblen | 10 February, 2012 04:07

  Thanks to 4G LTE technology, the global market for mobile communications gear will grow 17 per cent in 2012, according to research firm IHS, formerly iSuppli.

• Telstra adds 958,000 mobile customers in six months

  By Spandas Lui | 09 February, 2012 10:25

  Telstra reports positive results in the first half of its 2012 financial year

• Optus launches small business NBN packages

  By Spandas Lui | 07 February, 2012 10:50

  Optus launches small business NBN packages catering to offices with up to five people

• FCC overhauls telephone subsidy for the poor, adding broadband

  By Grant Gross | 01 February, 2012 07:57

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved an overhaul to its Lifeline program, which subsidizes telephone service for poor people, with the goals of saving money and allowing the subsidy to go toward broadband service.

• Huawei completes acquisition of CIP Technologies

  By Hafizah Osman | 30 January, 2012 08:46

  ICT solution provider, Huawei, has completed the acquisition of a photonics research laboratory, the Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP), from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA).

• White spaces: The next generation of wireless broadband has landed

  By Dan Tynan | 28 January, 2012 05:32

  At Airlie Gardens in this coastal North Carolina city, 400-year-old live oaks nestle next to natural wetlands and cutting-edge technology. In the guard house a quarter mile from Airlie's entrance, a monitor displays high-definition images of the security gate captured by a remote camera.

• Growth 2012: From backyard to boom

  By Hafizah Osman | 09 February, 2012 14:18

  iiNet: The third in a series of 10 interviews with channel-relevant technology companies that have achieved significant growth over the last three years

• ISP Q&A: TransACT's Ivan Slavich on networks, the NBN and more

  By Spandas Lui | 24 June, 2011 21:45

  The Federal Government’s $36 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) aspires to be an open-access network which will eventually level the playing-field in the broadband market for ISPs nationwide.

  But one company already has its own open-access network, albeit on a smaller scale.

  TransACT began its life in the 2000 and has strong ties with the main utility services supplier in ACT, ActewAGL. Its origins stemmed from the fact Telstra and Optus left Canberra out of their HFC broadband network footprint.

• NEWS FEATURE: The Digital Economy Strategy - a roadmap to where?

  By Spandas Lui | 04 July, 2011 15:43

  The Digital Economy Strategy, recently announced at ceBIT Australia 2011, has been warmly received by the industry. But analysts are less certain of the strategy.

• IT in 2011: Four trends that will change priorities

  By Shane O'Neill | 06 January, 2011 05:16

  It's always a challenge for IT departments to anticipate how corporate technical demands will evolve, especially when IT budgets have been as tight as a drum for two years.

• Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 December, 2010 03:14

  A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year.

• Google Chrome 5 Beta: The top five features

  By Ian Paul | 06 May, 2010 02:39

  Google recently launched the beta version of Google Chrome 5, the next iteration of the search giant's Web browser. New features include HTML 5 specifications like Geolocation and file drag-and-drop; expanded cloud sync capabilities; Flash integration; and JavaScript engine speed boosts.

• Google's big fiber play: What gives?

  By Ian Paul | 12 February, 2010 10:14

  Google on Wednesday announced that it wants to "build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States." Google's proposed networks would service anywhere from 50,000 to 500,000 people with commercial broadband Internet service reaching speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second.

• Facebook tracks your every move, employee claims

  By Ian Paul | 13 January, 2010 02:45

  Facebook is tracking your every move on the site -- or so says one purported Facebook employee, according to an anonymous interview with the Rumpus. In the interview, the Facebook employee, whose identity was protected so she wouldn't lose her job for talking to the media, also said that Facebook employees have relatively easy access to user accounts.

• Study: US sees 'broadband boom' this decade

  By Grant Gross | 25 June, 2009 02:56

  The U.S. government should avoid making huge changes in its deregulatory telecom policies because consumers have seen a "broadband boom" since 2000, according to a new paper released Wednesday.

• EC drafts rules for state aid in new broadband networks

  By Paul Meller | 21 May, 2009 03:39

  The European Commission has laid out guidelines for how European Union national governments can boost development of super-fast broadband networks without falling foul of European laws designed to restrict state aid.