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Amid our growing hunger for increasingly fast broadband, let's take a moment to consider just how far communications technology has come.

Gold miner warns on continued volatility in prices, revenue falls slightly.

Shares slip as gold miner holds full-year production steady, volatile prices weigh.

Logistics group appoints Stephen Johns as chairman-elect.

Wagering and gaming company to buy ACT government-owned business.

Local market extends morning gains as Commonwealth Bank hits a record high.

With reports the government is considering switching construction of three warfare destroyers from its own shipbuilder in Adelaide to UK owned BAE, this video with Simon Cowan from the Centre for Independent Studies investigates why Australia's defence spending needs to be re-examined.

It's long been assumed that boards with a majority of independent directors are better able to protect shareholder interests, but research shows that such board composition destroys shareholder value and performance.

Deloitte might be right that the RET will add $15 to your quarterly power bill ... if you think gas prices will stay low, adding 7500 MW of wind and 10,000 MW of solar to the market by 2030 will not markedly affect wholesale prices, and solar costs $1000 per kilowatt more than you can buy it for now.

The stern sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU are a damaging blow to the country's oil and gas sector. But will economic pain induce Moscow to change its tack on the conflict with Ukraine?

The European Commission has managed to ditch the successful market-based feed-in tariff in Germany and introduce a direct action-style system based on renewables auctions, doomed to be complex and expensive.

Built for another age, HRL's horrendously polluting power plant and briquette factory in Morwell is finally on the way out. Its dogged survival is a harsh lesson for policymakers.

The once-dominant phone maker bets big on security to bring back the glory days.

Popular US messaging app Kik is letting users chat with corporate bots in a potentially revolutionary new form of 'chatvertising'.

The week in clean energy saw UK solar economics take a hit via approval of set renewable payments while analysis found Germany's new self-consumption tax won't slow rooftop PV.

The $100m the government has allocated to smart grid trials led by Ausgrid has come up with a counter-intuitive result that smart grid technology will be of moderate benefit in reducing peak demand and network investment, but will be very good at deterring solar installations.