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.
The ongoing slump in the IT sector, unstable government policy and Australia's continuing status as an IT branch office economy may well spell the end for local R&D. ZDNet Australia analyses this concerning trend.
The first recruit to the ICT Centre of Excellence run by NICTA said he hopes the program will change the way PhDs are viewed in Australia, and potentially the type of people who do them.
Bucking the trend of declining R&D spending, the Australian Federal Goverment's Cooperative Research Centre program is keeping innovation alive and attracting international attention.
The biggest government investment in IT research and development is the AU$230 million ICT Centre of Excellence designed to revolutionise and revitalise Australia's IT industry. We talk to the first researcher hired by the centre and find out why he decided to return to Australia.
Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
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Telstra is determined to create new sources of revenue by investing in new IP infrastructure and building managed offerings around the integration of infrastructure and services. This means turning the company into a new kind of business -- with major implications for the whole economy.
David Tennenhouse is one of Intel's big-picture guys, looking for the next decade's big thing. His forecasts for the chipmaker and the industry may surprise you.
The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.
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Australian technology firm, cap-XX, may give the global mobile electronics industry the charge it needs to enable next generation portable computing and wireless devices. Perched on the northern edge of Sydney's silicon strip at Lane Cove, the company has designed a portable power source that will let you operate your mobile phone, laptop or PDA for longer than a conventional battery but charge it in a matter of seconds.
The Australasian Consumer Electronics Show has returned to the Sydney's Exhibition and Convention Centre at Darling Harbour for another week of technophile, sensory overload. Rather than screaming "I'm technology, I'm here!" this year the tone of the show seems a little more subdued. If you need a unit of measurement to gauge the size of the 2001 gathering you might be advised to choose Giga-Hertz. Wireless is a fashionable theme at recent technology shows, but this year the Australasian show's EM radiation level is being boosted by a multipartite effort to promote digital TV to consumers.
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