There's no denying the appeal of broadband internet access and yet for a smart country Australia has been falling way behind our international counterparts.

ISP Unwired has added Woolworths and Co-op Bookshops to its stable of resellers for its wireless broadband service, claiming its supply problems have been ironed out and coverage is improving.

The Unwired Garden of the Future at Sydney Olympic Park was an unprecedented Display Garden at Sydney’s ABC Gardening Australia Festival in August 2005. Designed by Andrew Davies (Landscape Design Director of Dig Design Ideas Gardens) and PC Authority magazine, it was built to represent any outdoor space (balcony/courtyard or a section of a backyard) where the user can leave the confines of the indoors and go outside to use the computer. 

The future of Internet access is now. The idea of connecting cables to a computer to enable a connection will soon seem as archaic as manually cranking the engine of an automobile. Ed Dawson samples a cross-section of bleeding-edge wireless broadband services and cuts through the hype.

Read details on affordable access to wireless broadband, and Australia's future high-speed WiMAX network.

Nathan Taylor explores the world of wireless technology, from WANs, LANs and PANs - what we've got and what's to come.

Mobile wireless broadband for your notebook, and a tale of two cities.

Wireless broadband provider Unwired has announced it has signed its 25,000th subscriber.

Even at a glance, the Linksys WRV54G looks to be more than just an 802.11g/b wireless access point. It acts as an Ethernet switch connecting up to four wired devices, making this a good bridging choice between wired and unwired networks. It's also a router capable of hooking up to a DSL modem, which is useful for basic connection sharing.

There are three proposed near-term fixes for this: GPRS, WAP and XML. GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) isnt a cure-all, but it will be of importance to the early adopters - people using mobile data

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

How will you be computing in the next 12 months? PC Authority brings you 2005's big technology stories - before they happen.

How is mobile broadband different to Wi-Fi?What is WiMAX?What are the alternatives to 3G mobile broadband?What do the mobile broadband acronyms mean?

Three hundred and forty-seven attendees honoured Australia’s leading IT companies at the James Bond-themed 3rd IT & T Awards in a distinctly un-Caribbean atmosphere on Sydney’s Jones Bay Wharf 28 October.

Latest IDC figures have tipped wireless broadband use to grow five times faster than the total broadband market, exploding from 25,000 users to 287,000 users by 2008.

Brief reviews of new products, plus updates on items we've already featured.

Cebit is the showcase for future industry trends and technologies. Everything you need to know.

Ever wondered what a particular acronym stands for? Find the answer in our comprehensive reference guide to computer industry acronyms. RTFM!

Once you go mobile, you won’t go back. We uncover the hardware, the plans and the services that’ll unshackle you from the office.