Stories by Rebecca Merrett

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has taken an ad hoc, complex service delivery process and turned it into a fast, simple model.

Australia, along with 11 other Pacific Rim nations, has signed the world’s largest free trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which lays out the rules for trade and investment among the countries.

From stringent processes to Agile, from big budgets to small ones, from wearing only the IT-business hat to wearing all hats – there is a lot to learn when leaving the corporate world to build a startup.

Machine learning, schmine learning – it’s just going to be a part of our everyday lives. That’s what Amazon professor of machine learning at University of Washington and Dato founder, Carlos Guestrin, says about this artificial intelligence subfield.

Google's Compression Team has unveiled a new algorithm that compresses and decompresses data better than its Zopfli.

Around 4.2 billion people or 57 per cent of the world's population do not have adequate access to the Internet, with the majority living in developing countries, a new report revealed.

Australian payments platform company, eWAY, has launched an app that let’s Apple Watch users accept payments through their smartwatch.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has ripped responsibility for copyright and online piracy out of Attorney General George Brandis’ hands.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has revealed his new ministry, with Senator Mitch Fifield​ becoming the new Communications Minister.

CIOs need to stop trying to force CMOs to purchase technology through the IT department and focus on offering skills in purchasing and vendor management that marketers don't have, says Tourism Australia's CIO, Dave Rumsey.

On 24 July 2015, Boeing tested Data61’s (formerly known as NICTA) seL4 – the “world’s most highly assured operating system” – on its autonomous Unmanned Little Bird (ULB) helicopter.

Broadband customers purchasing a 100Mbps service through a particular retail service provider (RSP) may not have been receiving the service they paid for, according to an ACCC report.​​

One of the biggest drivers for innovation is having a deep, ingrained desire to learn new and difficult things. This is where the magic happens, says the head of Google X lab, Astro Teller.

Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) is calling for a halt to the introduction of the Copyright Notice Scheme, under which ISPs will send copyright infringement notices to their customers.

RMIT University is conducting research into overcoming security issues with single-sign on by developing continuous authentication as part of a partnership with CA Technologies.