The Australian government, in partnership with a few private enterprises, is spending $43 billion dollars on installing Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) to the majority of Australian houses with the aim of almost everyone having high speed Internet access within a few years (called the National Broadband Network or NBN). Australia covers a vast area [...]
Smart Grids, the ‘next wave’ of massive infrastructure investment is set to be a huge industry. Many organizations and governments are ramping up for the required changes in electricity infrastructure. Smart Grids are creating very attractive opportunities for companies not traditionally associated with electricity; For example tech companies such as Cisco, Motorola and Alcatel Lucent [...]
WordPress 2.9 was recently released. There are some great new features in the latest release of WordPress including the ability to update multiple Plugins at the same time. Back in the ‘old days’ one would manually have to download each Plugin requiring upgrading, uncompress then upload to the appropriate file on the Webserver. In later [...]
The next ‘big thing’ is the Advanced Metering Infrastructure/Smart Infrastructure (Smart-grid and Smart-meter) and all the supporting technologies. Electricity Infrastructure is starting, the world over, to go through an immense change. The change is about supporting electricity generation and distribution with technology and hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent over the next few [...]
