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Australian scientists for the first time have been able to produce the nation’s first home-grown carbon fibre, paving the way for a new Australian industry to mass-produce the material which is used in everything from bicycles and tennis rackets to satellites and fighter planes. The CSIRO – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation – says … Read more
GOLD COAST – The Gold Coast Council claims it will have an independent fibre network that runs up to 10 times faster than the NBN in place by Christmas. It claims to be spending $5.5 million building the network which will stretch across 45km of the central Gold Coast area, much of it ducted through … Read more
In a bid to flesh out its expertise in artificial intelligence, Panasonic is set to buy American start-up Arimo. The Japanese electronics conglomerate will pay tens of millions of dollars for the company founded in 2013. The 16-employee start-up includes alumni of Google and other tech titans, and it has leveraged these connections to hire top … Read more
The Turnbull Government says it is undertaking a review of management of the “.au” domain in order to ensure it remains fit for purpose in serving the needs of Australians online. A statement published by Comms Minister Mitch Fifield says the not-for-profit .au Domain Administration (auDA) oversees the operation and management framework of the .au … Read more
Spending on public cloud services expenditure in Australia is predicted to hit A$5 billion by the end of the year, according to a new Gartner report. This would be a 17.1 percent rise over the $4.3 billion recorded last year, Gartner says. Gartner tips software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenue to rise 25.1 percent to A$1.9 billion, while … Read more
Border Force officers at Australia’s eight international airports are trialling the use of Apple iPhones as portable biometric scanners, able to identify suspicious non-citizen travellers The department’s identity and biometrics division head Joe Franzi last week told a Canberra conference that the latest iPhones give officers the ability to “very quickly take a minimum of … Read more
A key attorney tasked with making money from BlackBerry’s intellectual property has left the company. Victor Schubert was a key player in BlackBerry’s patent licensing strategy but it’s not clear why he left. Monetising BlackBerry’s intellectual property is a key part of CEO John Chen’s plan for turning the ailing smartphone maker around. BlackBerry’s revenues … Read more
UK-based Vodafone Group has declared Asia-Pacific to be the lead region for IoT adoption, and the region making the most use of IoT to increase competitiveness. Vodafone estimates that 36 percent of organisations in Asia-Pacific have implemented IoT, compared to 27 percent in the Americas and 26 percent in Europe. Vodafone said 53 percent of … Read more
Intel has unveiled a new chip for quantum computing and delivered it to a European research group. The new 17-qubit superconducting chip is the first such device Intel has discussed publicly. It follows the announcement of a US$50 million partnership with Dutch research organisation QuTech two years ago. The design is said to improve reliability … Read more
Dell Technologies says it will invest $1 billion in research and development of IoT over the next three years and has set up a special division to integrate products and services across the company. The new division will be run by current VMware CTO Ray O’Farrell. His first mission will be to develop IoT products … Read more