CSIRO ICT Centre - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• CSIRO offers climate change data online

  The CSIRO has launched a new website aimed at providing public access to 35 years’ worth of climate change data collected by the agency and the Bureau of Meteorology.

• CSIRO pushes digital dividend in face of NBN spectrum buyout

  CSIRO’s hopes of commercialising its Ngara fixed wireless broadband technology for use in the National Broadband Network (NBN) may be hampered by radio spectrum recently purchased by the network wholesaler, researchers have warned.

• NICTA, ANU and CSIRO partner with Microsoft

  Microsoft has announced partnerships with three Australian research organisations, including National ICT Australia (NICTA), the Australian National University (ANU) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), with the aim to provide researchers with Cloud computing resources and support.

• CSIRO experiments with 'no email' day

  The CSIRO is undertaking an experiment few commercial organisations would dare to consider — switching off email for an entire day.
  

• CSIRO forced to postpone Total Wellbeing website launch date

  The CSIRO’s Total Wellbeing Diet (TWD) website is experiencing several technical difficulties, with the launch date of 2pm on 2 September passing without access to the site being granted.

• CeBIT 2010: NBN cost not an issue

  The cost of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been played down by industry players despite Federal Opposition, and some industry concerns, around the high price-tag of the national infrastructure project.

• CSIRO ICT Centre gets new director

  The CSIRO has appointed a former Nokia Siemens Networks global technology and sales partnering head to the role of director of its ICT Centre. Dr Ian Oppermann will commence on January 28, 2010, and aim to boost the centre's international “connectedness” while striving for "greater engagement with local industry".
  

• Australia should pay close attention to China: CSIRO

  Australia should pay close attention to how new technology is taken up in China, as it will likely have a global impact in the future, according to a leading CSIRO scientist.

• In pictures: Australia's UAV challenge

  Aviation enthusiasts gathered with their unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) at Kingaroy airport to compete for cash prizes totalling $70,000

• CSIRO sells Funnelback search engine

  CSIRO has sold its Funnelback search engine technology business to open source content management company Squiz.

• 200 solar-powered network sensors to monitor rainforest

  The CSIRO will install some 200 solar-powered, sensor network nodes over the next two years to helping rehabilitate rainforest in the Springbrook World Heritage precinct in south-east Queensland, the research group announced today.