This paper is based on the observation that mobile phone technology will become the preferred platform for enabling an aging population to live independently for longer in their own home. The paper draws upon research into the understanding of the diverse attitudes and backgrounds of older people that informs prediction of adoption of these technologies.

In 2007/8 the authors became involved in the review of the mobile phone evidence used to convict Mr Phuong Ngo in 2000 for organising the murder of John Newman, a member of the NSW Parliament, in 1994. The case was dubbed 'the first political assassination3 in Australia'. Mr Ngo was convicted at his third trial...

Wireless Broadband technologies can play an important part in the deployment of broadband infrastructure albeit for different contexts in both developed and developing countries. Wireless technologies have a particular niche in the different ways of developing countries that do not have a mature copper network for DSL and in developed countries for application in rural...