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Defence considers Oculus Rift for training exercises
The Department of Defence's Defence Science and Technology Group has teamed up with Oculus to explore using VR technologies such as the Oculus Rift in military training and education. [ + ]
nbn should eventually be split up: ACCC chair
ACCC chairman Rod Sims recommended in a recent speech that nbn should make preparations to eventually split up into different businesses that would compete with each other in certain aspects. [ + ]
National biometric face matching system to go live in 2016
The Attorney-General's Department expects a system to allow law enforcement agencies to more easily match facial images using biometric data to be operational by mid-2016. [ + ]
ICT's role in emergency and disaster response
The first ICT conference focusing on management of major emergencies and disasters will be held in Bulgaria from 4–6 November. [ + ]
CSIRO Digital Productivity and NICTA to merge
Settling months of speculation, the federal government has announced that the CSIRO's Digital Productivity flagship and NICTA will merge, forming one of the largest digital innovation teams in the world. [ + ]
Digital Transformation Office on recruitment drive
The federal government's Digital Transformation Office is launching a national recruitment campaign for talented people capable of accelerating the pace of digital transformation across the government. [ + ]
Government to overhaul spectrum legislation
The government will implement all key recommendations of a review aimed at simplifying and standardising the approach to managing and allocating spectrum to telcos, broadcasters and others. [ + ]
DTO engages with developers for API design mandate
The Digital Transformation Office is pushing application developers within government agencies to standardise and facilitate use of their applications by developing application programming interfaces to an evolving set of design standards. [ + ]
ACT govt saves all recycled ICT gear from landfill
The ACT government's ICT equipment disposal broker Reuse-RecycleIT has saved all the territory's excess or superseded ICT equipment from the landfill since entering the arrangement in 2009. [ + ]
Opera House appoints AECOM for 3D BIM project
The Sydney Opera House has selected an AECOM-led consortium for a project to develop a cloud-based 3D interface that bridges building information modelling and databases with control systems. [ + ]
Smart ICT for Australia's infrastructure
NICTA has called for the use of 'smart ICT' in all upgrades and new proposals to help improve infrastructure that's struggling to cope with population growth. [ + ]
Defence boffins show off novel online security device
Scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Group have developed a device to verify the security of online content being delivered over untrusted computer machines or networks. [ + ]
The Australian Government must learn from US data breaches
As recent US government experience shows, data breaches are inevitable. What's important is how quickly we react and the steps we take to minimise the damage, said FireEye's Phil Vasic. [ + ]
'Smart regions' demand better local-government IT — and better collaboration
Citizens are just as concerned that governments use technology to help them prepare for severe weather events as they are on initiatives such as smart lighting, transport information and intelligent parking, a major new report shows. [ + ]
Smart ICT could transform Australia's infrastructure
During a hearing on Friday, a House Standing Committee was given a number of recommendations for using smart ICT to transform the way Australia manages its public infrastructure. [ + ]
