Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, has brought together Chinese and Australian policy makers, industrialists and researchers in a first-ever ICT summit it is hosting in Shanghai to discuss the future of information and communication technologies.

Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, has gained $200 million in extra revenue from a successful legal challenge to the use of its patented wireless technology that is now used in more than 800 million devices around the world.

WiMAX is destined to remain a niche technology, even in emerging markets. That's the judgement of a major analyst firm.

Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence – NICTA – is to collaborate with Singapore’s A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) in a two-year agreement, to develop and demonstrate fast, low-cost, temporary mobile wireless communications networks.  

CommScope subsidiary, wireless communications company Andrew, has expanded its operations in China with the completion of a manufacturing plant and distribution centre in the province of Suzhou.

Yet another Telstra announcement on 21Mbps Next G wireless has arrived, this time toutin’ the fast talkin’, world record holdin’ Fran Capo on her Australian tour, to show off her Guinness World Record motor mouth and speedily segue into a spiel on the sizzlin’ speeds and in-store availability of Telstra’s 21Mbps wireless modems.

3 Mobile has today launched a new WiFi application that turns its customers’ mobile phones into mobile wireless hotspots.

Cisco and Telstra have come together to help develop education and Internet-based communication in northern Australia by deploying a wireless broadband network and Cisco Unified Communications at an indigenous school in far north Queensland.

In what is being termed as Australia’s biggest collaboration with China on wireless communications research, the CSIRO and Chinese researchers have launched a program to develop more environmentally friendly wireless broadband base stations.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre, has held the first public demonstration of a prototype system using a 60GHz Gigabit wireless (GiFi) chip technology. The demonstration of wireless technology claimed to be an order of magnitude faster than anything to date comes after a research effort spanning four years, involving a team of 15 researchers.