News

• NBN to touch 3.5 million premises by 2015

  By Spandas Lui | 29 March, 2012 13:55

  Preparation work by NBN Co has made this goal achievable.

• 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.

• $1.4m injected into NICTA gigabit wireless technology

  By Spandas Lui | 18 May, 2011 15:09

  The Federal Government is providing $1.4 million additional funding for the commercialisation of NICTA’s gigabit wireless, or ‘GiFi’ technology.

• NICTA looks to help with logistics

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 24 February, 2011 11:01

  Organisations with logicstics operations might be able to realise greater efficiencies and then cost savings through research and software being developed by NICTA.

• NICTA on the hunt for NBN application developers

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 24 February, 2011 06:56

  NICTA is looking for partners to get on board its Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI) initiative.

• World’s eyes on Aussie NBN: Conroy

  By Spandas Lui | 04 December, 2009 11:53

  Australia’s impending National Broadband Network (NBN) has garnered considerable interest internationally, according to Broadband Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.

• Conroy holds his breath for iiNet v AFACT verdict

  By Spandas Lui | 03 December, 2009 12:46

  The court stoush between iiNet and AFACT may provide the basis for new legislation addressing online copyright issues, Broadband and Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy has revealed.

• The NBN spells the end of the ISP as we know it

  By Trevor Clarke | 25 September, 2009 12:12

  The ISP has one foot in the grave. Or at least once the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is rolled out, the term Internet Service Provider (ISP) may become an endangered species, according to the director of the recently-established Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES).

• NICTA gaming platform geared for Q1 release

  By Spandas Lui | 19 August, 2009 12:02

  NICTA’s massive multiplayer online game (MMO) platform, Badumna, is set to hit the market by early next year.

• NICTA's GiFi on track to kill USB cables

  By Spandas Lui | 13 August, 2009 10:06

  Sick of tripping on wires? A complete wireless network connection between electronic devices is just around the corner.

• New Linux-based technology to make ‘smarter’ GPS

  By Dahna McConnachie | 06 August, 2009 07:51

  Sick of having your GPS tell you to turn the wrong way up a one-way street or lead you to a dead end? Fear not: Linux-based technology developed at NICTA is on its way to help make personal navigation systems more accurate.

• NICTA appoints new education director

  By Annie Dang | 23 July, 2009 12:45

  One of Australia’s leading ICT research and development organisations is about to take new lessons from a recently appointed education director.

• Gartner: NBN will be an 802.11n enabler

  By Trevor Clarke | 30 June, 2009 12:45

  The proposed $43 billion national broadband network (NBN) will drive the uptake of 802.11n based wireless networks, according to analyst firm, Gartner.

• NICTA head calls for unified ICT body to leverage NBN

  By Trevor Clarke | 16 May, 2009 08:00

  The ICT industry must pull together as a unified force to realise the potential of the planned national broadband network (NBN), according to the CEO of research and development centre, NICTA.