By December 31 2013, analogue TV can be switched off. This would be a relief for broadcasters and retailers. Progress reports will be provided from the Australian Communications and Media Authority. This is a Bill which will now go to the senate.
Have your say: Do you belive the government should switch off analogue TV?

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Telstra says forming an alliance with Microsoft to deliver IT services and software will lead to Australian businesses increasing their productivity.
The partnership also sees the pair go head-to-head with corporate-mobile giant Research in Motion - maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone - by offering a corporate email and applications service for six Windows Mobile devices.
The [...]

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A company developing a touchscreen device to help elderly people stay in touch with their families has landed a federal grant for emerging technologies.
The federal government on Wednesday announced $3.6 million in funding for a range of projects under the commercialising emerging technology grants scheme (COMET).
Keep in Touch Australia was one of 57 companies awarded [...]

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AAAI’s new website
The AAAI Group has launched its new website at www.aaai.com.au. They have made their website easier to navigate, more user friendly and have added a range of new features. The new site features a streamlined navigation system which now only contains four main sections, helping candidates get to what you want faster. They [...]

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A $100-million dollar supercomputer will be built at the University of Melbourne for biomedical research.
The Victorian Premier, John Brumby, announced the project in San Diego overnight.
The powerful computers will be used to process complex data for research on the life sciences.
Professor Geoffrey Taylor says, high performance computing is essential for medical advances to be made.
“Now [...]

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Employees may want to re-think about taking unnecessary sick leave as employers in the UK are turning to a new voice analysis system.
One of the systems, developed by Digilog, listens to the caller’s voice when they phone in sick and detects changes that suggest they are lying or under pressure, alerting the person taking [...]

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“Today we declare AWA’s to be dead and buried,” Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced to parliament on Wednesday.
The lower house have agreed to a number of amendments bringing into place transitional workplace arrangements for employers and their employees. Among theses 37 amendments, mostly technical, was a change allowing employers to extend the use of transitional [...]

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To cut down on terrorist related threats and child pornography traders, NSW Police will have the power to seize entire computer networks as dictated under new laws to be introduced by the State Government.
Previously, Police were only able to search computers found in premises named in a search warrant. However, computer networks were being used [...]

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