Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, has welcomed the announcement that the government's independent review panel is now calling on industry and the public to put forward their submissions on how to foster a more effective national innovation system.
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged the government's ongoing support for a substantial CSIRO innovation program, after reports late last week that it intended to lower the organisations budget by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out the initiative.
Australian Customs' CIO, Murray Harrison, says service level agreements (SLAs) don't work in outsourcing arrangements and when vendors use the term "innovation", their suggestions generally works against the interests of the customer.
Optus has announced that it has joined Huawei in developing a mobile and wireless innovation centre in Sydney, in a move which could push the telco outside its comfort zone.
To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.
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It's a business truism that success comes through growth and growth comes through innovation -- but how can you innovate in your use of technology without risking funding, reputation, and your entire infrastructure? Angus Kidman investigates.
In the last few years, most of the innovation in security has involved finding clever new ways to do things with existing technologies. Are there revolutionary changes in the wings?
video At the Gartner Symposium ITExpo in San Diego, Microsoft's Bill Gates discusses how innovations such as reliable speech recognition software will succeed in the next 10 years.
Open-source software is the industry's most notable "disruptive innovator", says Gartner. Will Microsoft be forced to advocate the platform?
Gartner sees the next wave of technology--the confluence of wireless, real-time infrastructure, and service-oriented architecture--as a catalyst that could transform or kill entire industries.
Most organisations see Facebook as a waste of time but they also want staff to collaborate, innovate and be more effective. According to Gartner's Stephen Prentice, social networking and virtual worlds could change the world in the same way the Internet has already done.
The federal government has been great at experimenting with new technologies, said Gartner's government analyst, John Kost however our parliamentary system makes execution difficult because decisions to invest are not aligned with enforcement responsibilities.
Complacency is not a strategy for long-term growth. Thus, according to Bill O'Brien, Intel is keeping watch as AMD's hammer technology makes inroads into the server market.
Palm pioneered the smart phone, but if rumours prove true, the Treo maker may not survive as an independent company to watch its creation move from the corner office to the street corner.
Consumer-electronics giant, Sony is expected to announce today that it will no longer sell its Clie handheld anywhere except Japan - a blow for Palm OS supplier PalmSource
Apple Computer's apparent cold shoulder to RealNetworks this week has once again put the company's "go it alone" strategy in the spotlight.
Let's face it, mobile commerce never delivered on the hype that surrounded it over the last few years. But that doesn't mean mobile commerce is dead, thanks to a new use of an old technology.
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