After analogue TV signals are switched off with the shift to digital transmission, a significant amount of spectrum bandwidth is expected to be freed-up, potentially making it available for other applications rather than replicating the similar quality analogue TV programs. This paper discusses spectrum management issues in relation to digitalisation of terrestrial television broadcasting.

Despite setbacks in the lucrative China market earlier this year, the Internet search engine company Google continues to grow and grow. So what exactly is its game plan? And why is it being referred to as a future Microsoft rival?

Australia is well served by its public funding support - some $6 billion in 2002 03 - for science and innovation according to this draft research report into the sector. It is not possible, given a host of measurement and methodological issues, to provide accurate estimates of the contributions of such R&D to the economy...

On 27 October 2006 the Federal Court of Australia ordered Clarity1 Pty Ltd to pay $4.5 million and its managing director, Mr Wayne Mansfield, $1 million for breaches of the Spam Act 2003. The penalties follow a ruling by the Federal Court earlier this year that Clarity1 and Mr Mansfield had breached the Act by...

The advent of Next Generation Networks is bringing forward a series of innovative opportunities but also a greater array of challenges, touching on competition, interconnection agreements and new business models. Papers and presentations from this OECD Foresight Forum, held on 3 October 2006, are now available online.