Testing of 43 modem-routers found none could achieve 100/40Mbps speeds over the average length of copper in an NBN fibre-to-the-node connection.
Test system studies traffic camera feeds to warn drivers when a car is about to run a red light,or a pedestrian is hampering a right-hand turn.
Dozens of businesses and homes in Melbourne's inner-north are facing 17 days without internet.
Scientists have developed a device the size of a matchbox which could have huge ramifications for the amount of information which can be sent via the internet.
In a bid to manage the number of new NBN connections,Telstra will scrap its speed boost fee,delivering around 100Mbps to all its non-NBN cable customers.
Australian companies are increasingly paying off online hackers,who demand money to unlock computers,as the number of cyber attacks rises.
SubCom said it would lay an internet link from Australia to Hong Kong through Papua New Guinea,deepening its involvement in a region where China's Huawei has sought to expand.
"People think that data is in the cloud,but it's not ... it's in the ocean."
The prescription pager system at a Joondalup chemist interfering with people's keyless entry car remotes has been turned off,resolving the isolated issue.
TAFE Queensland's IT system is"in crisis",according to the LNP,after costs for its student management system were 32 per cent higher than budgeted.
Predictions of a tech collapse in 2000 reached an apocalyptic pitch. The Howard government in 1997 wanted its agencies to act faster and prevent the worst.