Industry News
Aussies click with social networking on mobiles
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 today by Telstra.
[ + ]Green IT partners combine for more accuracy
Connection Research and ComputersOff.ORG have announced a cooperative agreement to work together on green IT accreditation and market analysis.
[ + ]Forum calls for increased collaboration on WiMAX globally
WiMAX forum calls for increased collaboration and across-the-board interoperability to enable flexible deployments of WiMAX.
[ + ]Pulsed laser will speed up information highway
Silicon chips may soon be able to transmit and process information at extremely high speeds using light, with help from a University of Sydney invention.
[ + ]CrimTrac opens green data centre
CrimTrac gets cleaner, greener way of securing law enforcement data within the Canberra Data Centre.
[ + ]Watch State of Origin in 3D on Nine
Australian viewers join the 3D revolution with the rugby league State of Origin available in 3D to home viewers.
[ + ]Warren & Brown Technologies joins University of Melbourne (IBES) team
Australian-owned telecommunications product developer and manufacturer Warren & Brown Technologies (WBT) has become the latest company to join the Industry Partner Program at the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES).
[ + ]Tomago Aluminium first win for new entity UXC Connect
UXC Getronics Australia has completed its integration into the UXC Group with the launch of significant changes to its client service offering and a re-branding of the company. The new entity, UXC Connect, will specialise in the delivery of ICT services and Integration solutions for business sustainability and will leverage the entire UXC group of ICT companies.
[ + ]E-health gets budget boost
The e-health records project has been given a boost in the federal government Budget to the tune of $466.7 million over two years but what will this achieve and is it a sensible use of funds?
[ + ]Ideas International inks global licensing agreement
Ideas International forms a licensing agreement with CiRBA, a global data centre intelligence software provider.
[ + ]WiMAX technology for vividwireless network
In a claimed worldwide first, Huawei has delivered beamforming technology for the Perth-based vividwireless WiMAX network.
[ + ]Survey finds increased awareness of online threats
A survey indicates increased awareness of online threats and continued wariness when interacting with online sites.
[ + ]No let-up in email threat landscape
Email Security Threat Brief for the month of March 2010 highlights the monthly email trends from Websense Security Labs.
[ + ]Energy-efficient reseach centre for communications industry
Bell Labs, University of Melbourne and the Victoria state government are teaming up to open an eco-oriented research centre in Australia. The AU$10 million centre will focus on researching energy-efficient technology for the communications industry.
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