Beyond the glory days of Pac-Man games and Commodore 64 units, digital forms of equipment in media have advanced exponentially throughout the world, especially within the English-speaking societies that now depend on its continual evolution. The ways in which several countries have followed into the high-tech market of conveying ideas, for purposes of both business and pleasure, demonstrate their willingness to move forward into an era that demands more of its developers and machines. Although a great number of territories lack sufficient improvements in the technical and industrial aspects of contemporary mediums, as compared to expansions found around the globe, others are adequately equivalent to the progressions found in the West. Therefore, subsequent pages of information will equally compare the technological, industrial, regulatory and culturally influenced features of modern media in Australia to those found within the economical matrix of the United States of America.
Despite the fact that quite a few years have passed since Australian inventors created Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Australia, once known as an old-fashioned, outback area for tourism, has experienced significant changes toward the new era of progressive innovation in machinery. In fact, as stated clearly by Media Access Australia (2011) a leading organization that encourages media capabilities for disabled individuals, “The number of mainstream technologies that are affordable and accessible is increasing, helping people to access information on the internet not just in their homes but in any location through portable devices.” (Table 1) While a great deal of the products used in Australia are made by import-based manufactures (e.g., Motorola, Nokia and...
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