IT Software & Applications Feature Articles

Organisations with more than $1 billion in revenue have reforecast their IT spending increase for 2007 to 2.8 percent, according to a new Gartner Consulting Worldwide IT Benchmark ...

New research reveals details of tremendous variety of process changes being made by manufacturers using RFID.

Information demand for businesses today is growing to overwhelming proportions – both in responding to requests for information, and in managing their own existing information stores. ...

Smaller companies in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry want entrepreneurial training, access to marketing intelligence and the opportunity to collaborate ...

Nanotechnology promises to revolutionise everything from medicine to engineering, indicating that thinking big may soon involve thinking small. To realise this promise, the government, ...

Austrade has identified growing demand for more energy efficient and ‘green’ technologies from Taiwan is creating export opportunities for Australian businesses with relevant ...

The adoption of RFID continues to gather momentum, and hardware and software spending will accelerate in late 2006 and 2007 as true benefits are documented, according to Gartner, ...

The global use of RFID is increasing very rapidly from a US$2.7 billion business in 2006 to over $26 billion in 2016. As an enabling technology, it is already being widely used, ...

Pasture growth rates across the south-west of Western Australia are expected to be around 60 per cent down on what they were last year and could be the worst in nearly 100 years, ...

Researchers worldwide now have a faster and simpler way of accessing the vast repositories of data that underpin their studies, following a new federal government grant of $8.9 ...

In the interests of mine safety and productivity, it is vital that operators are continuously aware of underground conditions and risk profiles.

With China predicted to become Australia’s biggest export market up from its current number two spot, Austrade said businesses must view protecting Intellectual Property (IP) as a ...

Tiny and often tucked away in hard-to-reach nooks and crannies, a novel array of sensors is poised to change the costly and resource-intensive process of fighting corrosion in ...

Australian scientists are helping to build a profitable new industry which turns 'noise' into money.

"This is the next generation of cooling devices," Dr. Hongbin Ma tells PhysOrg.com. With a group of students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and colleagues at Argonne National ...

Continuous improvement is imperative in manufacturing. Companies that fail to innovate can quickly perish in the face of an ever-changing marketplace. Queensland Manufacturing ...

Heather Ridout: "It costs $A45,000 to employ a process worker in Australia; it costs $A4,500 to employ the same worker in China."

In an effort to become more profitable and improve quality and customer satisfaction, many companies are turning to a manufacturing strategy based on high production throughput, high ...

There has been an ongoing debate in economic circles regarding the influence of technological change on economic growth. Thus recent studies have looked at a range of factors ...

In today's competitive marketplace, companies are seeking ways to shave off costs in every aspect of the production process. Simulation tools have become one solution to which ...