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The topic of innovation, and Australia’s relatively poor track record, is attracting widespread attention. Recently, Australia’s ranking in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report dropped from 16th to 20th place due to weak innovation, excessive regulation and a restrictive labour market.
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As the Federal Government works on a Cyber White Paper to help Australians safely leverage the Internet to maximum effect, the Australian Computer Society has highlighted the critical role for ICT professionals in advising and protecting their clients online.
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Significant shifts in the entertainment and retail sectors have highlighted the growing impacts of the emerging digital economy. While online retailing is taking off, many forms of traditional entertainment have also become increasingly digital - from music and movies through to newspapers and books.
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When Benjamin Franklin first harnessed electricity back in 1752, he could not have foreseen how radically he and those who followed him would change our way of life, leading to electric lighting, heating, communication and more recently computing.
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Aside from the obvious controversy, the Federal Government’s carbon tax could offer potential benefits for the ICT sector if it regenerates interest in green technology or sparks demands for new systems to track and measure energy consumption.
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Security analysts tell us future wars are more likely to be fought in cyberspace than on the battlefield. A nation can be as easily crippled by the loss of its critical infrastructure as it can by any number of well-placed missiles. In light of this reality, Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced a new,...
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In the Rust Report of March 4th, Ian Birks wrote: “There is one thing consistently missing from public NBN debate: the benefits for business, and how they can be realised … It appears that wider industry leaders have not truly grasped the sea-change that is going on in global business”. The specific issue in...
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With yesterday’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations held worldwide it’s an appropriate time to focus on Ireland’s ICT sector, which continues to go from strength to strength, despite the economic turbulence caused by its domestic banking crisis, writes Barry Murphy.
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“Better Broadband Equals More Money!” Viocorp COO Rachel Dixon grabbed the audience as she illustrated her sound bite at the recent Broadband & Beyond 2011 conference in Sydney.
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At long last we have a Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into the National Broadband Network that asks not “Should we do it?” but rather “How do we make it work?” The inquiry by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications is an opportunity to elevate the debate and focus on issues that...
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