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• CSIRO wins $220m settlement for Wi-Fi

  By AAP | 02 April, 2012 08:26

  The CSIRO has been awarded $220 million after settling litigation against companies in the US to license its wireless local area network (WLAN) technology.

• CSIRO sourcing hardware for Pawsey SKA supercomputing environment

  By Tim Lohman | 18 May, 2011 09:53

  The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has announced that it will shortly move toward the procurement phase of its multi-stage petascale and real-time supercomputing Pawsey Centre project.

• BUDGET 2011: Global telescope bid receives $40m

  By James Hutchinson | 10 May, 2011 20:52

  The Federal Government has invested $40.2 million over four years to continue Australia and New Zealand’s joint bid to host the global Square Kilometre Array project.

• CSIRO develops geospatial data network

  By Chloe Herrick | 02 May, 2011 15:21

  The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in collaboration with AuScope have developed an open-access network of geospatial data and supporting infrastructure -- the Spatial Information Services Stack (SISS) -- for the exploration of Australia’s geology.

• Tasmanian ICT centre gains $50 million funding

  By Computerworld Staff | 02 May, 2011 08:40

  The Federal Government has committed $20 million to the Tasmanian ICT Centre, forming part of a $50 commitment that will ensure the centre’s survival for five years and introduce further research into broadband-based applications.

• CSIRO works out pay deal

  By AAP | 28 April, 2011 07:40

  The CSIRO says it has finally struck a pay deal with staff, ending months of negotiations and stopwork protests.

• CSIRO boffins stage pay protest

  By AAP | 14 April, 2011 12:12

  Leading Australian scientists have staged a nationwide protest in their battle for better pay and conditions.

• CSIRO strike grows to 2000 nationally

  By AAP | 22 March, 2011 08:52

  Strike action across the nation will be ramped up as Australia's leading scientists continue their push for more pay.

• CSIRO staff to strike from Tuesday

  By AAP | 15 March, 2011 10:40

  CSIRO spokesman Huw Morgan said the strike action was disappointing.

• CSIRO staff threaten to strike

  By AAP | 04 March, 2011 10:04

  Leading Australian scientists at CSIRO have threatened to strike as early as next week after failing to win a pay rise.

• CSIRO to trial Ngara wireless in Armidale, December

  By Tim Lohman | 21 February, 2011 12:26

  The CSIRO will move to the next stage of testing its Ngara wireless technology in December this year with plans for field trials in the NSW town of Armidale.

• Wireless smartphones essential to e-health: CSIRO

  By Tim Lohman | 17 February, 2011 16:49

  While e-health has to date largely focused on doctor-patient videoconferencing over fibre networks, wireless-enabled smartphones could soon grow to become the health service delivery platform of choice for many Australians, according to the CSIRO.

• Cloud computing self-regulation needed: Analyst

  By Hamish Barwick | 17 February, 2011 10:46

  Self-regulation would lead to a more trustworthy, local Cloud provider industry and avoid contractual hassles, according to an analyst firm.

• CSIRO to replace Altix supercomputer

  By Tim Lohman | 16 February, 2011 09:30

  CSIRO’s Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) division is to replace its SGI Altix supercomputer in an effort to increase the software compatibility of its high performance computing.

• Cloud essential to R&D in Australia: NICTA

  By Chloe Herrick | 10 December, 2010 16:37

  Australia’s research and development industry must look to Cloud computing technology in the future in order to successfully handle the “explosion” of data and the need for computation.