NICTA has issued a press release celebrating the award of  the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO to its former CEO, Dr David Skellern, but without mentioning his contribution to the development of Wi-Fi technology.

We’re not horsen’ around here. Popular singer Beyoncé has received a scientific honor. A previously unnamed horse fly has been named after her. And, it’s all because the fly is considered the "all time diva of flies."

Innovative Australian technology has been utilised in Boeing’s latest passenger jet, the long-range twin engine 787 Dreamliner, which Qantas and its low-fares subsidiary, Jetstar will start flying in 2012 and 2013.

The NSW Government has announced the composition of its ICT industry advisory panel opting for seven well-credentialed members of the ICT establishment with nary a maverick outlier amongst them.

Glenn Wightwick began his adventures in computing at the age of 10 when he started tinkering on an old DEC PDP minicomputer that had been donated to his school. It wasn’t connected to a screen – just a printer, which spooled out page after page of programming or results.

If you ask someone for the time, you're probably satisfied if the answer is accurate to the minute. But for some commercial and scientific purposes, much greater accuracy is needed.

Electronic sniffing specialist E-Nose will release Mark 4 of its Graffit-e-nose system shortly – a fully integrated version of the graffiti-busting device which can now be wirelessly connected to closed circuit TV cameras and configured to switch them on as soon as the sniffing device detects spray paints in order to gather evidence for potential court actions.

Research by CSIRO has shown that less rainfall occurred over the past 50 years in southern Australia in the fall and winter – and less rain is expected to continue for another 50 years.

Australia’s national government body for scientific research in Australia, the CSIRO, has decided it wants to “acknowledge and celebrate journalists alongside CSIRO’s scientists and researchers” for the first time, offering a $5000 travel grant to the journalist judged by the CSIRO’s judging panel that best used “exceptional reporting” that promotes the awareness and impact of science to Australians.

The CSIRO and NICTA have signed a four-year agreement with NBN Co giving them, through their recently established Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI), access to the nascent national broadband network (NBN) for the development and testing of broadband technologies and applications. They have also announced the director and advisory board of ACBI.