Posts tagged "internet"

A sizeable proportion of the population still lack access to the internet.

Businesses switching over to the NBN faced weeks of lost services, an inability to resolve complaints and major impacts on their operations, new data shows. 

Around 40% of the world’s population uses social media, so understanding the influence of social media on health and wellbeing is critical.

Having recently taking to Twitter to voice his anger, Elon Musk's reputation has taken a blow, reminding us that it only takes one terrible tweet to undo 5000 good ones.

This year saw a decline in the trust of news outlets, social media and ‘people like us’. So what does this mean for the online presence of small businesses?

As Mark Zuckerberg famously promised, Facebook will always be free, but now it might let you pay a little more if you want to subscribe to certain groups.

By Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology

Online retail giant Amazon’s decision to block Australian shoppers from its US we…

Despite large investments in the National Broadband Network, the “digital divide” in Australia remains largely unchanged, according to a new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Several small business owners have raised concerns that there has been a lack of fairness in the consultation process around the possible introduction of a direct registration .au domain.

Small businesses are demanding a better answers about the forthcoming introduction of “.au” domain names, with a former non-executive direct…

In my last blog, I outlined why many smaller businesses are reluctant adopters of the internet.
But small business isn’t alone. Many lar…

Data collected by internet speed testing company Ookla has revealed the state of play for Australian internet users, showing rural users are…