Category: Technology

  Australia will be the first country in the world to use new GPS technology that will be almost a hundred times more accurate than the existing system. The new…

Australia government-owned research body, CSIRO, says Australia may get an entirely new industry as a result of Australian developed carbon fibre technology. It has announced “Australia’s first entirely home grown…

NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Andrew Constance, is a bit of a conference junky. His latest outing was at Salesforce.com’s annual ‘Dreamforce’ conference in San Francisco, where he had…

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected wearable monitor Fitbit for a use in large scale health study. The program, called All of Us, was established by the…

Australia is a laggard compared to other countries when it comes to encouraging the use of electric vehicles (EVs). The ACT is the only jurisdiction in Australia which offers any…

Influential energy and climate economist Professor Ross Garnaut says Western Australia should adopt a state based emissions intensity scheme. He is recommending and Emissions Intensity Scheme (EIS) for the state….

As online retail giant Amazon sets up its Australian operations, serious concerns have emerged in the US about its potential dominance of Federal Government purchasing. The new US National Defense…

Digital computing started in Australia in 1949, when Trevor Pearcey first switched on his CSIR Mark 1. It was only the fourth computer in the world. Pearcey, an Englishman who…

Modern technology means it has never been easier or more cost-effective to store and access information. So it is surprising then that many government departments, from LGAs to federal agencies,…

Less than half Australasia’s local government authorities have implemented a formal strategy for the digital delivery of services to the public. Even fewer have a strategy for their internal customers…