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Infrastructure Australia wants industry input on future infrastructure planning
The agency is seeking solutions to help address potential challenges that Australia's infrastructure will face in the next 15 years and beyond.
The ADHA is simplifying its clinical terminology database with AWS
The National Clinical Terminology Service has been re-engineered to reduce complexities and costs.
Myriota and Optus Business add terrestrial connectivity to satellite IoT plans
Agreement will see IoT users able to maintain connectivity in remote Australia.
Kogan's mobile and branded products increase net profit by 20% for FY19
The company is also set to launch Kogan Mobile New Zealand sometime next year.
Sydney Uni touts simultaneous control of light and sound on small scales
Scientists from the University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, Macquarie University, Yale University, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have co-authored a paper on the breakthrough.
CSIRO's Data61 opens Mixed Reality Lab in Melbourne
The lab will allow industries to create digital copies of physical objects, systems, or people.
Morrison floats legislation written in code
Regtech fan ScoMo claims code will allow for rapid implementation of regulation.
Judge allows Roadshow to raise piracy cases quicker, blocks more piracy websites
A group of studios, headed by Roadshow, will only need to notify carriage service providers within two months, instead of six, of whether they want to renew blocks to websites that have been deemed to illegally share copyrighted content.
University of WA secures Microsoft AI grant to help endangered species
Genome testing will now be carried out to save more than one million animals and plants, including Australia's very own quokka.
A Greater Bank experience with core banking in the cloud
The customer-owned bank and mutual financial institution has shifted its core banking to the cloud with Data Action.
Australian Signals Directorate launches open source data visualisation tool
ASD touts Constellation as a data analysis application enabling data access, federation, and manipulation activities across large and complex datasets.
eHealth NSW nears completion of electronic medical records system
eHealth NSW said it's part of a 10-year plan to deliver a citizen-centric healthcare system.
Coates Hire preps for the future with three-day Azure shift
The company underwent a three-day cloud transition to Microsoft Azure, aimed at cutting costs and preparing for future transformation with a vision to include machine learning and the Internet of Things.
Snake and ladders as Australian broadband realigns towards NBN
An incumbent telco complaining of declining profitability meets a government wholesaler seeking a way to make a return.
Personal data of Australian visa applicants reportedly leaked following email typo
ABC has reported that 317 individuals applying for an Australian visa had their health information shared in error.
iPhone 6s, 6s Plus Sydney launch: Photos
Hundreds of die-hard Apple fans lined up in the rain to obtain one of the new iPhones, launched on Friday morning -- though significantly less turned up than for the iPhone 6 launch.
UNSW to visualise data sets using DomeLab
The University of New South Wales has launched a DomeLab in the hope to help researchers visualise data sets in the medical and museology field.
Honeywell's Command Suite puts design at the focus
Honeywell's plans to improve user experience is reflective in the interface of its newly announced Command and Control Suite, aimed to provide personnel holistic views of a building's video feeds, access control, and fire alarms.
Who's who in Australia's mandatory data-retention debate
There are a lot of players in the mandatory data-retention debate. We look at who is for the legislation, and who is opposing it.
Telstra opens high-tech Customer Insights Centre: Pictures
Telstra has opened its Customer Insights Centre (CIC) in Sydney for enterprise and business clients, with the high-tech 3,600 square metre facility boasting a 300-person auditorium, a workshop, collaboration spaces, partner pop-up installations, a restaurant, and a broadcast studio.
Tropical tech: IT challenges in remote communities
Operating and maintaining the sensitive IT equipment in Australia's tropical far north can be a challenging undertaking, but NEC Australia has worked out a way to keep things running for some of Australia's most remote communities.
One Laptop per Child reaches 20K devices in Aussie schools
Not-for-profit organisation OLPC Australia's new program, One Education, has now distributed 20,000 computing devices to schools throughout Australia, with a celebration held last week at a school where every student and teacher has a device.
NextDC's Sydney datacentre at 27% capacity
At the launch of NextDC's S1 Tier III Sydney datacentre last night, CEO Craig Scroggie confirmed uptake was already at 27 percent.
Inside Adobe's new office in Sydney
The creative software vendor shifted its operations from Chatswood to the Sydney CBD.
ZDNet App Wrap: February 11, 2013
This instalment of the App Wrap covers Mailbox, Horizon Calendar, Carbon for Twitter, Foursquare for Business, Documents On The Go Pro, Basecamp, Queensland Tide Times, and O'Week at Uni of Adelaide.
Digital Realty officially launches Western Sydney datacentre
The datacentre provider showed off the new facility with NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell attending the launch ceremony.
ZDNet App Wrap: January 21, 2013
This week, the App Wrap looks at Dolphin Browser, CommBank Kaching, CommBank Property Guide, yourMyki, Armadale Shopping City Shopper Guide, iBulkBill, and Australian Open.
Australian Open 2013: tech running the tournament
ZDNet goes behind to scenes to learn more about the tech that is used to support the Australian Open.
ZDNet App Wrap: January 14, 2013
This week we look at the following newcomers from Apple and Google's app stores: Arrivo Sydney, Facebook Pages Manager, Fitocracy, PlayTube, PresentEasy, Python 3.4 for iOS, Share The Fare, and TrackMySpend.
ZDNet App Wrap: 26 November 2012
This week's new apps include: Find a Lawyer, First Aid, Here Maps, Vic Hunting, Francis Bacon, Optus TV with Fetch, Quit for Two, and Great Koala Count.
Water goes back to the cloud with WaterNSW transformation
The 'three cloud strategy' will see WaterNSW adopt Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, and Office 365.
UpGuard finds information on over 37,000 Australia and New Zealand clinical trial participants
The uncovered database had 37,170 rows of 'user' collection, the same amount of users that Neoclinical has.
Suncorp ditches marketplace strategy
It also paid AU$155 million in regulatory and customer remediation costs in response to the Royal Commission.
CSIRO's Data61 to find new CEO
Turner is stepping down to set up a new venture after four years with Australia's innovation arm.
Australia gets Oracle's 'Gen 2 Cloud' with new Sydney region
A second region is pencilled in for Melbourne in early 2020.
Australia Post to use NBN as part of network infrastructure upgrade
Australia's incumbent postal service has awarded Comscentre to help with the five-year project.
WA proposes new Privacy Commissioner and government Chief Data Officer
The state has decided it needs a whole-of-government approach to privacy and information-sharing.
NBN moves into Layer 3 with Sky Muster Plus launch
Broadband wholesaler to exempt certain sites, email, and operating system updates from satellite data quota.
Defence to expand HMAS Harman data centre and increase power supply
A request for tender document identified that a second data hall and a facility to house all engineering critical and backup services will be built.
UWS uses Intel chips to create biologically-engineered foosball table
Brain-inspired chips are helping researchers develop technology that functions more like humans.
Finance minister believes NBN write-down would not impact Budget surplus
Finance Minister labels a potential NBN write-down as a political decision.
Komatsu Australia leveraging cloud to unify data and maximise machine use
Komatsu has deployed Microsoft Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, combined with Discovery Hub and Power BI, to help process its vast amount of data.
Sydney expands contactless payments to buses
An extension to the contactless transport payments play run by Transport for NSW in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank, Cubic, and Mastercard.
Sephora data breach hits Southeast Asia and ANZ customers
Some personal information such as first and last name, date of birth, gender, email address, and encrypted password, as well as data related to beauty preferences may have been exposed.
NAB admits it shared personal info on 13,000 customers with two external parties
The compromised data included customer name, date of birth, contact details, and in some cases, a government-issued identification, such as a driver's licence.
