CeBIT – bring on this year’s shiny new bits and bytes
Sydney’s annual CeBIT conference – it’s kind of like Oscars week for the Australian technology industry. Despite the fact the Exhibition Centre may not seem as enchanting as a Hollywood red carpet or...
View ArticleAussie farmers take a byte out of Big Data
Forget the Internet of Things, this week we are all about the Internet of cows, sheep and oysters! From monitoring soil moisture to measuring oyster heartbeats, we have just released a new research...
View ArticleFrom space to the hose pipe
Part of our Smart Farming series By Claire Harris From a US satellite in space to a farm in Australia, data gathered about our planet is beamed right into the hands of farmers to help them make...
View ArticleCattle farming on the cloud
Part of our Smart Farming series By Claire Harris You jump in your car, glance at the fuel gauge. You check that the engine oil warning light isn’t on (phew) and you start the engine. Engine revving a...
View ArticleIs data the next disruptive technology?
By Dr Bronwyn Harch, Chief of CSIRO Computational Informatics. It has been almost twenty years since Harvard professor Clayton Christensen first explained his theory on why technologies that initially...
View ArticleThe app-ortunity for innovation is endless
Since 1985, we’ve used the word ‘app’ to describe any software program that runs your laptop, smartphone, tablet or smart device. Back then, apps simply focused on things like email, calendars and the...
View ArticleFive ways the next generation of robots will change your life
By Dan Chamberlain When it comes to the wonderful and whacky world of robotics, there are few events which bring in as many brilliant, bold and beautiful bots as the annual Robobusiness Conference....
View ArticleLiving life wirelessly
By Iain Collings My nine year old son has lived his whole life in a house that doesn’t have a cable connected to a telephone – not to mention to a laptop or mouse. This is largely because wireless...
View ArticlePretty fly for a WiFi
Remember the ol’ days of dial-up internet? When you got disconnected every time the phone rang and used up all your drive space to download one little file? Man, life was hard. Luckily in the 90s our...
View ArticleBridging the broadband gap
It’s amazing to think that in a country where almost half of adult Australians own a smart device, there are some people who simply don’t use the internet at all. Despite living in a country which is...
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