Carr told 'carpe diem' on cloud computing

A high level advisory committee to the Federal Government has called for immediate action to exploit what it says is a window of opportunity for Australia to be a global leader in the creation and adoption of Cloud computing innovation.
 

New flight simulator set to take off

More realistic, safer and less expensive flight simulation is now available for training commercial, fighter and helicopter pilots with new technology announced today by Federal Minister for Innovation Kim Carr.
 

NICTA start-up cuddles Moshi Monsters deal

Tiny Aussie start-up Scalify will run a commercial trial of its multi-player game technology developed at NICTA with giant UK-based Moshi Monsters - a kiddies virual environment and online game with more than 50 million users worldwide.
 

IBM opens R&D lab in Melbourne

IBM today formally opened IBM Research and Development - Australia in Melbourne today. The laboratory is part of IBM's 'smarter planet' initiative, and iTWire spoke to one of the researchers.
 

CA Labs and RMIT join together to fight crime

CA Labs today announced it will work in collaboration with RMIT University on a project to protect both industry and government bodies from potential damage due to malicious acts by employees.
 

Australia's first Chief Scientist resigns

Dr. Penny Sackett, the Chief Scientist for Australia, announced her resignation on Friday, February 18, 2011. She was the first person to perform the full-time duties of Chief Scientist in Australia.
 

Govt tips another $80m in VC into tech

An additional pool of $80 million in venture capital has been created through the Innovation Investment Fund, with information technology and new media companies likely beneficiaries.
 

Aussie software in a billion mobiles

Software from Australia's Open Kernel Labs has been deployed in more than one billion mobile handsets.
 

NICTA's Skellern to make way for robotics guru

There is to be a passing of the torch at Australia's peak ICT research agency NICTA, with long serving chief executive David Skellern to retire early next year.
 

Aussie R&D spending jumps 13 per cent

Business investment in research and development jumped 13 per cent in 2008-09 to $16.9 billion, continuing a strong five-year run of growth, according to just-released numbers from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.