Late night chat set to save lives
Doctors in Australia and the UK now have a late-night "chat lifeline" that can save lives by providing them with immediate medical information.
Doctors in Australia and the UK now have a late-night "chat lifeline" that can save lives by providing them with immediate medical information.
The man who sued SOCOG over Web site accessibility has warned that rising complaints against government Web sites' use of PDF documents are being made under commonwealth law.
Australia's premier supercomputing facility will increase its computational capacity by up to 10 times following an injection of $29 million in government funding.
Two services vendors are sharing $9 million in spoils from the final days of the government's Group 5 outsourcing cluster.
The 2006 national Census will be among the many beneficiaries of a new government database that helps translate addresses into geocoded locations.
Geoscience Australia will transfer its 400 terabyte vault of seismic data to new media as part of a $25 million, three-year project to be announced today.
Education.au, an IT government agency for education, has turned to open source software to develop Web services for its flagship portal.
The Western Australian government will this month formally announce a Web application project being piloted by 500 households that aims to ‘network’ the neighbourhoods of WA residents.
Laws to ban spam will be introduced into Parliament later this year, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Richard Alston, said yesterday .
A Sydney council claims to have created Australia’s first, self-serve library using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, as part of a wireless e-commerce strategy.
An audit on the management of software as an asset has endorsed the practices of four federal government departments, despite finding none of the organisations had asset management plans for software.
Nearly half the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) IT-related skillsets are at critical status, according to an audit report released last week.
The NSW Office of Fair Trading is keeping a closer eye on its 40 sites throughout the state by installing a network of electronic access controls.
The e-business strategy of the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) is a model for online services that other government agencies could benefit by following, according to a NSW Auditor General report.