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• Bond Uni enlists mobile tool for student recruitment

  Queensland’s Bond University has enlisted the help of an online student recruitment tool in the aim to attract students with information easily accessible via smartphones.

• Voters can get 'cluey' this NSW Election

  Enrolled voters can enlist the help of a Web application to simplify the “daunting” task of voting below the line in the upcoming NSW election on the 26 March 2011.
  

• Melbourne hacker releases open source Django apps

  To fill a requirement for flexible content and management and e-commerce, Melbourne-based software engineer Stephen McDonald has released two open source projects built with the Django framework.

• Cool Kinect hacks

  When Microsoft launched Kinect for the Xbox 360, it intended the peripheral -- which is capable of full-body motion tracking for multiple simultaneous users -- to be used for games and media playback.

• Kinect for Windows SDK shipping later this year

  Microsoft's official blog has announced that a free, "non-commercial" Windows SDK for developing for applications using the company's Kinect motion sensing system will be available for download "this spring" (that's our autumn for the hemispherically challenged).

• IT skills shortage could delay software development: Report

  The IT skills shortage continues to plague executives and developers alike and could lead to significant delays in the development of software and systems, according to a benchmarking report by a NATA accredited software testing firm.

• Building IQ takes smart building software to US

  Australian software developer BuildingIQ will soon be offering its smart building services to US companies thanks to securing a runner up prize in the NSW Innovation Showcase: Fastpitch competition.

• IT employers seeking specific skill sets in 2011

  Australia’s IT jobs market has experienced a number of peaks and troughs in the last few months, however according to recruitment firm, Randstad, there will be strong demand for certain skills in the coming year.

• Agile Aconex turns tables on sales

  Many organisations consider Agile development as a nice-to-have way of improving their efficiency and driving change. For document management provider Aconex, however, the adoption of Agile was a lifeline after its operations faced almost paralysing pressures from an increasingly complex product, ever more-demanding customers and sales staff, and heady growth that has propelled the Melbourne startup into 35 countries.

• Esri Australia maps out app for VicRoads

  A mapping application designed to improve road works in Victoria is set to go live next month.

• Cobol skills drought persists amid mainframe migrations

  Enterprises struggling to fill demands for Cobol skills should consider an application modernisation program which could also pave the way for migration off the mainframe to an open system.

• Intel opens software development center in Romania

  Intel on Monday opened a research and development center in Bucharest that will focus on software development.

• E-books, iPad, Kindle not the death of publishing

  The publishing industry must embrace e-books and engage with the IT industry in order to reimagine book production, a Web development expert has warned.

• Local Sybase offices wait for global green light

  A month after SAP finalised the $US5.8 billion acquisition of mobility and data warehousing company Sybase, local offices are waiting for the proverbial green light to begin integration.

• Open source Ruby, Python hit rocky ground at Microsoft

  Microsoft's open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers departed the company last month.