The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, will next week launch two new industry reports at an AMTA Board breakfast at Parliament House.

Australia’s first energy efficiency training program for the mobile network industry to help reduce carbon pollution and electricity costs was launched in Sydney this week.

MobileMuster will present its 4th Annual Local Government Awards at the National General Assembly for Local Govenment in Canberra next week.

Nearly half of 18-year-olds and one-third of 19-year-olds are not enrolled to vote as the nation prepares for a federal election that could be called within weeks, the Australian newspaper wrote this week.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy and Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, launched National Cyber Security Awareness Week 2010 this week.

Australia’s love affair with social networking has gone mobile, with customers using their mobiles to visit Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in record numbers over the past 12 months, according to new figures released this week by Telstra.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy, today welcomed 50 students from across Australia who were in Canberra to advise the Government on cyber-safety issues.

Queensland’s peak motoring organisation has launched a community service campaign aimed at raising awareness about the dangers of driver distraction.

In an effort to reduce road accidents linked to distracted driving, a doctor from Boston, USA, is calling on doctors to talk to their patients about the effects of talking or texting while driving, reports the Los Angeles Times.