The University of Queensland's Centre for Online Health (COH) and Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane have launched a joint paediatric service for remote communities using a telepresence system called called 'Tiny Tom'.
Researchers from two Queensland universities have just finished a working prototype to separate farm animals from their wild counterparts, making sure only livestock and not feral animals or wildlife can drink and eat from farm water supplies and feed.
The University of Queensland has opened a new in-house-designed datacentre, using the university IT team's knowledge of supercomputer power and cooling requirements to deal with the trials of virtualisation.
The University of Queensland is playing broadband Santa Claus to nearby schools, with its new service UQSchoolsNet.
The Australian open source industry generates AU$500 million of revenue every year, according to the inaugural Australian Open Source Industry and Community Census, released today at the NSW Trade and Investment Centre.
Researchers from the University of Queensland have taken a significant step in the quest to build a quantum computer, creating a light-based quantum circuit capable of basic calculations and moving quantum computing closer to a becoming a reality.
Business intelligence is the fastest growing software category but skills shortages in the area are hampering deployments and universities are failing to address the problem, according to experts.
Not enough migrant workers are being hired to work in public service IT, which is contributing to a government-wide ICT skills shortage, according to a report by the Australian Government Information Management Office.
Universities are calling on IT vendors to make a greater investment in the tertiary sector to tackle the skills crisis.
Emissions from office laser printers can be as unhealthy as cigarette smoke, according to an Australian professor who is now calling for regulations to limit printer emissions.
Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.
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CeBIT Australia is on again for 2007 with hundreds of IT products and services on display in addition to the conference, keynotes and forums. Join us as we take a photo tour of the exhibition halls.
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SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.
A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous Sendmail software, which processes 60-70 percent of the world’s e-mail messages.
SGI, a maker of high-end computers for technical tasks, has begun selling a new server running Linux on as many as 64 Itanium 2 processors, the company plans to announce.
Keeping the current version of Internet Protocol, the world will run out of IP addresses by 2007. So is it time to move to IPv6? ZDNet Australia investigates.
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Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
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