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Both World Suicide Prevention Day and R U OK?Day occur this week, and as a part of generating awareness and increasing the discussion about mental illness, depression, anxiety, and suicide prevention, it’s worth looking into a somewhat controversial issue: Does the ongoing worldwide increase in technology use help or hurt our mental health? Technology use… View Article

In this age of increasingly internet-based education, there’s a clear challenge in rural and regional areas when it comes to access to cost-effective and reliable internet services. This digital divide impacts not only primary and secondary school goers but even more significantly impacts those students completing distance education, school of the air, and home schooling…. View Article

Streaming services in Australia are rapidly becoming more popular as providers such as Netflix, Stan, and Foxtel Now continue to bring high-quality original content to audiences. While Australians in metropolitan areas may be able to embrace the streaming lifestyle with relative ease, customers situated in rural and regional Australia who aren’t able to access higher… View Article

With predictions of significant population growth and the impending demands on Australian farmers to increase their production in order to meet Australia’s needs as well as export needs, the importance of utilising new technologies to make smarter decisions and allocate farming resources efficiently is of the highest priority. A large part of these advances will… View Article

As the Australian snow season starts, we thought we’d take a look at how the Sky Muster Satellite delivers nbn® internet to the slopes with better service than ever before. So whether you’re in Falls Creek, Hotham, Mt Buller or Thredbo – this means better Netflix streaming after a day on the slopes and easier… View Article

Technology in the online space is advancing more quickly than ever before, and if you’re someone who’s not particularly interested in or who doesn’t have a lot of knowledge about online services and security it can be confusing. It can be so confusing that scammers are now targeting people with what’s known as “Remote Access… View Article

It’s no secret that our rural farmers are doing it tough. Besides dealing with the hardship of business due to natural disasters like fire, flood, and drought; the extreme isolation that is an everyday reality for many farmers and their families can take an additional toll on their emotional and mental health. According to an… View Article

If you’ve moved or are looking at moving into new housing developments like Oran Park, Springfield lakes, Lara, as well as many others, you’re probably familiar with the Opticomm name. To put it simply, Opticomm are a company that have built their own fibre network in order to provide new residential and commercial estates with… View Article

Close to 100,000 homes and businesses in Australia may reach the end of January and discover their existing ADSL network is no more, as their timeline to join the NBN comes to an end leaving them without internet or phone connections. The National Broadband Network has a goal to offer a connection to all Australian… View Article

The National Broadband Network (nbn) have today launched a new web page directed towards those in regional, remote and rural areas of Australia. While those in metro areas are more likely to be connected to a form of fixed line internet (HFC, FTTN, FTTP etc), those further away from major cities are largely connected through… View Article