Researchers at an Australian university have devised a more efficient type of fluid cooling that could allow the construction of faster computers.

Western Australia’s Curtin University of Technology researchers say they have used advanced computer modelling to improve the performance without interrupting production at BP’s oil refinery in Kwinana.

Street surveillance cameras are commonplace in many cities these days. But a company formed to commercialise the fruits of research at Perth's Curtin University of Technology reckons mobile cameras may be more effective than those commonly used.

The tussle between Microsoft and Google for business from Australia's universities continues: the latest round sees Edith Cowan University falling into the Microsoft camp.

A researcher at Western Australia’s Curtin University of Technology says he has used artificial intelligence to develop new software that learns as it is used, an advance that could make online mapping and GPS more user-friendly, according to the researcher.

Curtin University of Technology researcher, Don Griffiths, has been awarded a government grant to develop a system that enables a secure computing environment to be loaded onto a USB memory stick and then used to provide secure access to corporate applications from any PC.

Another university is adopting Microsoft's Live@edu email system. Almost 200,000 Curtin University of Technology students and alumni will be moved across to the cloud-based service.

Universities in Adelaide and Perth have gone live with the deployment of Technology One’s new generation student management solution.