Wearable tech wins at Melbourne BattleHack
[1] Christopher Michaelides and his team won last year’s BattleHack competition, and they’re victorious again with a new wearable tech product in this year’s Melbourne BattleHack. [...
Nitero’s NT4600 streaming service start of the end for cable guy
[1] Australian spin-off firm Nitero has come up with an innovative way where junk radio spectrum that is unusable for mobile networks could be used to stream 4K video across loungerooms [2] In 2014,...
Mature move by OneShift with Adage acquisition
[1] OneShift, the online job network which matches employees with employers, has acquired Adage, Australia’s leading mature age jobs board. [2] OneShift’s move goes against statistics that the num...
South Australia cuts CIO role
[1] South Australia has scrapped the role of CIO and merged the office to be under the responsibility of a Chief Operating Officer for public service delivery. [2] This changes has seen the current CI...
Real estate set for 3D makeover
[1] An innovative 3D real estate technology developed in Australia could soon make unrealistic pictures of homes up for sale a thing of the past. [2] Melbourne-based company Scann3d has developed soft...
Watchdog concerns over ASIO data retention
[1] New concerns have been raised by Australian intelligence watchdog over electronic data being held by ASIO that needs to be destroyed. [2] The main concern as described by the Inspector-General of ...
Federal government looks at creating a free geocoded national address database
[1] To determine users’ interests towards a geocoded national address platform, the federal Department of Communications has disseminated a survey for both the industry and the developers. [2] I...
Australian IT company Kinetic nabs $164m Vic Police deal
[1] To ensure that IT services are properly handled, Victoria Police has awarded a $164m contract to Perth-based private Australian company Kinetic IT. [2] In the five year IT contract, the company w...
Startup Victoria CEO Lars Lindstrom resigns
[1] To take on a new role as ReadCloud’s CEO, Lars Lindstrom has left his CEO position at Startup Victoria. [2] Startup Victoria co-founder and chair Leni Mayo commended Lindstrom for his contr...
TechnologyOne snaps up Icon for $10 million
[1] TechnologyOne, an Australian software company, has acquired Icon Strategic Solutions for $10 million in a move intended to enhance its local government sector business [2] The acquisition is part ...