The CSIRO says the initial roll-out of the Earth observation network for monitoring natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region has been activated for 10 emergencies from 7 countries, over the last 12 months.
With a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo on the cards monopolisation fears are running rife, but with the acceleration of online applications tipped to hit the big time, it may be the best chance for Microsoft to remain relevant next to the G...
Organisations undertaking financial transactions are taking to the frontline of defence and using recordkeeping as a weapon of mass destruction in preventing money laundering and terrorism financing.
Information and communication technology is shaping up to be a major player in the upcoming US elections, but can we expect the same ingenuity from our own politicians? Or are we still stuck with a parliament of technology troglodytes, str...
Microfiche offers some great archiving qualities but its one major pitfall is access - it’s a horrible format for sharing information. For Landgate – Western Australia’s primary land information agency – the hardware needed to read microfi...
While it may not have impacted petrol prices just yet, a data remastering project by SpectrumData for Geoscience Australia has transformed 750 terabytes of seismic data to combat legacy formats and free access to exploration information. ...
Records tell the history of what our governments get up to. But who polices the records, and what happens when they go up in smoke? Brought back into the public spotlight by respected members of the legal community, IDM revisits the still ...
