Industry News - Australian Technology and Information Industry Association（ATIIA）

05 Nov 2015

Driverless cars to fill South Australia's manufacturing void

New laws, ‘hardwired’ roadways bolster industry strategy.South Australian premier Jay Weatherill is appealing to driverless technology companies to set up shop in his state, and fill the economic void

28 Aug 2015

Australia's train signalling set to go digital

Full-steam ahead for trial of modern tech.The Australian Rail Track Corporation, in conjunction with US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, has begun shadow trials of a digital signalling system for the

20 May 2015

Australia Post proposes to outsource 108 IT jobs

Fujitsu named preferred partner.Australia Post will soon take plans to outsource 108 internal technology jobs to Fujitsu to its board for approval.The plans to offload the functions of AusPost's e

04 Mar 2015

Australia Post completes data centre overhaul

Laying foundations for the future.Australia Post has completed a years-long data centre overhaul that saw the organisation decommission a number of legacy computer rooms and shift into two modern faci

04 Feb 2015

Woodside lays out major tech strategy

Invests in remote operations, analytics, innovation hub.Woodside Energy has laid out an ambitious technology and innovation strategy for 2015 as it builds on a $45 million strategic technology plan cr

01 Sep 2014

Westpac warns against licensing IT providers

Big four bank says proposal could threaten market innovation.Westpac has warned that a proposal to license IT providers who serve financial markets would potentially catch more suppliers than intended

19 Aug 2014

US auto regulator pushes wireless transmitters for car safety

Wants life-saving technology made mandatory.United States car owners could soon have their vehicles equipped with wireless transmitters in an effort to prevent crashes, if a plan by the US automotive

14 May 2014

Budget funds Australia’s biggest supercomputer

Cloud-watchers get the silver lining.The Government has committed to funding the construction of a new supercomputer for the Bureau of Meteorology, which is set to strip the Australian National Univer

06 Aug 2013

Picking tomorrow's technology winners

Opinion: The radical can become the essential.It has been almost twenty years since Harvard professor Clayton Christensen first explained his theory on why technologies which initially receive a weak