Natural disasters, resource management, life sciences and e-health will be keyed as high priorities for a new global research and development lab to be opened at the University of Melbourne by IBM.
The Victorian Department of Justice (DOJ) will roll out an enterprise talent management solution as part of a bid to implement an effective performance management program.
The Victorian Government is to shortly progress to the third phase in its implementation of the National e-health Transition Authority’s (NeHTA) national product catalogue.
Victoria is cementing its status as the IT "hub" of Australia, with a number of recent announcements promising to create hundreds of IT jobs in the coming months.
Victoria has again topped other states in positioning itself as the centre of the country’s broadband future, this time playing host to a tie-up between Huawei and RMIT University that will see up to 500 Australians trained in networking technologies over the next three years.
An application focused on teaching people how to recycle has taken out the first prize in the Victorian Government’s App My State competition.
TranACT subsidiary, Neighbourhood Cable, has announced a nine-month plan to upgrade its hybrid fibre and coaxial (HFC) network to Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 3.0 (DOCSIS 3.0).
Indian IT services provider, Wipro, has unveiled a development centre in Melbourne to provide consulting, software development, testing and business process services.
Victoria’s roll out of smart meters has been put on hold following lobbying from advocacy groups over concerns that the scheme’s time-of-use pricing model could adversely affect consumers.
The Victorian Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD) is to launch a three-year Small Technologies Industry Uptake Program (STIUP) aimed at boosting Victorian business’ capacity to adopt and integrate ‘small technologies’.