CSIRO is helping to address an issue vexing the health system worldwide — the need for quality, accurate information in electronic health records.

Polaris, the disaster, terrorist and earthquake proof centre that will host mission-critical ICT systems for government departments and corporate enterprises, will open and close tomorrow.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has put out its initial green storage power measurement specification which is designed to classify storage systems.

A research partnership between CSIRO and China into wireless technologies is an exciting development which should bear fruit in the 4G and 5G mobile networks arena.

Finger vein authentication technology, developed by Hitachi following several years of R&D, uses the vein patterns of one's fingers to verify individual identity.

Gen-i has won the Fonterra WAN and telephony services for Fonterra supplanting outsourcer EDS.

The panel judging bids for the National Broadband Network has made its final submission to the federal government — but the government refuses to reveal any of the findings.

A wave of emails claiming that Barack Obama is refusing to accept the US Presidency is actually an attack carrying the Waledec botnet, say experts from Marshal8e6.

Nortel's bankruptcy filing will spur a new wave of competition in the telecommunications industry, according to Ovum.

More than half of complaints about violations of the Do Not Call Register are about telecommunications companies, ACMA has found.

One of North America's biggest telcommunications equipment suppliers, Nortel has filed for bankruptcy but purportedly the local operations are unaffected.

Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director at Ovum, raises the question: Should it one day be green to shun the internet? The answer is, of course, that data centres need to be more efficient but there is also a 'catch 22' scenario that he explores.

Satyam, the Indian outsourcing vendor, is doing everything in its power to reassure its customer base that it is business as usual, despite its woes.

The 'one laptop per child' initiative that started with great hopes has been hit by the financial storm.

Chinese regulators have issued 3G licences to the country's three operators. In contrast, India has postponed the kick-off date for the auction of 3G licences to the end of January 2009.