The Australian Government has introduced a legislation today to ensure that new homes were connected with the infrastructure to deliver superfast broadband.
The government announced that 6000 kilometres of cables will be laid out on mainland Australia that will act as the 'building blocks' of the National Broadband Network.
With Microsoft's recent decision to drop its purchase of Yahoo, the pressure is on Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to make his money-losing Internet business succeed against Google, says a report in Bloomberg.com.
Internet communication company Skype whose service is now found on Samsung, LG and Panasonic TV's is planning a a public "beta" test of a group video chat function that lets up to five people participate in a video call simultaneously. The service that could be a big hit with business organisations looking to cut travel costs.