The federal government has put up $249 million in a package designed to help Australian industries become more competitive and create new job opportunities through the cooperative efforts of university researchers, business and industry.

The University of Adelaide has upgraded and transformed its IT infrastructure with implementation of Oracle’s fusion middleware solution.

  A battle between universities has erupted, with a robot from Swinburne University failing to beat the world record Rubik's cube time set by RMIT students.

University students around the world are working on new projects, including developing smarter urban and transportation solutions and improved health care systems, with a bit of help from IBM.

Monash University has become the victim of an international attack, albeit one of an online nature, after its website was hacked and replaced with an Iranian flag.

Victorian specialist IT consultancy and development business Quantum IT has signed a major deal with six UK universities to supply technology to manage their health faculty work placement program.

SAP Australia and Victoria’s Holmesglen Institute have instituted a new SAP-focused bachelor of information technology degree to address what they say is a gap in the market for graduates with SAP knowledge and practical on-the-job experience.

Australia’s world-class ICT expertise will be on show at the European Commission’s biennial ICT three-day research event – ICT 2010:Digitally Driven – which opens in Brussels today with 5,000 researchers, innovators and influencers from around the world participating.

The University of Technology of Sydney (UTS) has deployed a solution from CA Technologies subsidiary, Nimsoft, to monitor all of its core applications across its production, test and disaster recovery data centres, enabling proactive mitigation of incidents through automated alerting.

There's a trend for universities to ditch in-house mail servers for student and alumni accounts in favour of hosted services offered by Microsoft or Google. But Macquarie University is the first in Australia to put its staff on Gmail.