Networking giant Cisco Systems this week announced plans for increased investment in Asia, including a new research and development facility in China and a venture investment program in India.
Queensland is outstripping the rest of Australia in building a hub in one of the most crucial areas of information technology development: IT security; according to IBM.
NEC Australia will invest $70 million in its Melbourne-based Next Generation Broadband R&D Facility, which will be NEC's largest research centre outside Japan and the largest privately owned ICT R&D centre in Australia, employing 63 highly skilled researchers.
Australian telecommunications heavyweight, Telstra, unveiled its new "Innovation Centre" in Sydney yesterday, designed to "accelerate the development of new and emerging technology solutions for customers".
Ericsson Australia's AsiaPacificLab research and development facility finally closed its doors on Friday, with the former managing director of the once grand centre attributing its closure to the "tyranny of distance".
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Melbourne-based start-up Cinergix appears to be the only Australian act headlining at the massive tech start-up conferences in the United States this week.
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At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the company's Justin Rattner and Joshua Smith talk about advancements in robotics. The research involves dexterous robots with new sensory abilities. In the demo, Rattner grabs an apple from the grasp of a robot hand that can sense objects purely by changes...
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The German chipmaker is expanding its research and development facilities and staff in its Asia-Pacific unit to concentrate on developing chip packages, microcontrollers and communications chips.
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Scientists experiment with a molecular-scale storage device that can be read like Braille and could lead to systems that hold nearly 100 gigabits of data per square inch.
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