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    The federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has announced an initiative to inform Australian SMEs on what to look out for when it comes to exporting their technology products overseas.

  • Defence needs IT recruit for busy Wiki

    The Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Division (C3ID) of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) will be outsourcing a specialist IT position to administer its in-house divisional Wiki system.

  • IT careers: Less confusion means more students

    Young people are not choosing technology careers because of confusion rampant across IT, according to senior industry figures.

  • Computer science's gender gap

    UCLA scholar Jane Margolis has spent four years tracking male and female computer science students. She says the gender gap has not gone away--but she has ideas for closing it.

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    Gravity, not technology, is being proposed as the ultimate safety for the proposed Replacement Research Reactor slated for South Sydney's Lucas Heights.

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    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.

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  • Computer science's gender gap

    UCLA scholar Jane Margolis has spent four years tracking male and female computer science students. She says the gender gap has not gone away--but she has ideas for closing it.

  • The importance of being 64-bit

    IT vendors such as Microsoft and Intel have grand plans for 64-bit computing and the improved processing potential it promises but convincing customers may not be so straightforward.

  • Report predicts 'wired brains'

    A report by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce in the US says the right investment in IT and biotech could have startling results.

  • IT employers look for business skills

    Firms are hiring more business-aware staff as an alternative to taking on computer science graduates, according to a new report.

  • IBM finds new way to make nanotubes

    Researchers at IBM have revealed a new process for fabricating carbon nanotubes that could be incorporated into processors, a breakthrough that could lead to more powerful computers in the coming decades.

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  • IBM finds new way to make nanotubes

    Researchers at IBM have revealed a new process for fabricating carbon nanotubes that could be incorporated into processors, a breakthrough that could lead to more powerful computers in the coming decades.

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