Like the rest of the Hydrapinion team, I'm back home from a three day conference where the local IT media, PR agencies and vendors get together to shoot the breeze and share what's important to them. Sure, we have some fun, but even the social times had us talking shop.

Out for the conference I wrote a couple of new stories for APC (you'll find them in this listing of all my stories at APC). However, a couple of things came to me that I thought would be interest.

Firstly, Australia's National Broadband Network is already here. Research firm Market Clarity showed conference delegates a preview of their Austrlaian Telco Atlas. It is crystal clear to me that almost all populated parts of Australia have access to the Internet over, at least, a 3G connection. The real problem we have with this service is its ownership.

Secondly, an increasing number of people need to have more than one service provider in order to service their home and mobile needs. Local telco gotalk (www.gotalk.com) announced that they'll be offering a new Internet service where you can use both mobile and ADSL from the one account. Think of it like a bucket of bandwidth. When you use ADSL, a tap at the bottom of the bucket will open and you can use the bandwidth. If you're on the road, the tap opens but you empty the bucket faster. That's because mobile broadband costs more than fixed today. My story on APC can be read here.

For the regular readers and new visitors, this will probably be my last column under the "Carry" banner. After writing about the mobile space since the establishment of Hydrapinion I felt like a change. So, I'll be writing about social media under the banner of "Socialise' - probably from next week.