The AUKUS agreement to build nuclear powered submarines in South Australia will bring a “huge multiplier effect” to local industries and technology development in Australia, according the US company...
Communications
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Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has published what he describes as a "mini-book": Governing in the Internet Age. This is a mini-review based only on his National Press Club Address...
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OPINION: According to the government, “the business model of Australia’s free-to-air television business is under severe strain”. In November last year, the government released a “Media Reform Green Paper”...
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Technology behemoth Microsoft has announced that it is expanding into South Australia, bringing its Azure Space team to Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen space precinct. As part of the expansion, Microsoft...
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Professor Reg Coutts, one of six expert panelists who helped envisage the original National Broadband Network (NBN), has passed away. Professor Coutts passed away peacefully in hospital in Adelaide...
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The Australian Space Agency should be made a permanent statutory authority and be given funding that is more in line with comparable countries like Canada, the head of Australia’s...
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The Victorian government has announced it will put $73 million into the company behind the National Broadband Network to take fibre deeper into selected communities, providing better internet connections...
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The federal government has folded two rounds of a $20 million 5G innovation program into one, announcing all 19 grant recipients on Sunday after what it said was high...
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New South Wales’ inaugural government innovation challenge is from the state’s telco authority, which is seeking solutions to improve connectivity across the state with non-terrestrial technologies, following the agency’s...
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Australian media giant Nine has signed content sharing deals with Facebook and Google worth tens of millions of dollars, months after the bargaining code was passed by Parliament. In...
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Facebook removed 110,000 pieces of COVID-19 misinformation posted by Australian pages or accounts in the first year of the pandemic, with 14 billion posts removed around the world from...
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The World Economic Forum recently pointed out that cyberattacks rank first among global human-caused risks and this year, it’s expected cybercrime will cost the world US $11.4 million each...
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Visionary businesses in Australia are starting to plan for real-time action (and reactions) – from products or service delivery to responding to market disruptions. At Verizon, we are having...
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Accounting giant PwC has won a contract to run a communications campaign to improve awareness and membership of the federal government’s public sector digital skills scheme. The Digital Transformation...