No backdown from CSIRO over Wi-Fi patents
News Australian government research body CSIRO is standing firm on its claims to Wi-Fi patents and refusing to offer any guarantee it won't sue manufacturers of next-generation wireless products. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research...
[October 2, 2007, 11:14]
CSIRO Brings Open Source Data Mining to Business
White Papers With Linux and open source software, CSIRO's mathematical and information sciences division is now able to model information for business benefit without relying on proprietary software. Data mining is all about building models of the world which...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Wi-Fi patent claims - here we go again
Blog Australia's government-backed research body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has, for a long long time, been battling with the major Wi-Fi vendors over patents it holds in OFDM technology.
[September 24, 2007, 15:21]
Telescope microchip could aid quantum research
News A research collaboration between Australia's La Trobe University's Centre for Technology Infusion, Peregrine Semiconductor Australia and the CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility have come up with a new chip design they hope will be...
[January 9, 2008, 9:15]
Firefox gets multimedia plugin
News Australia's CSIRO research organisation has developed a Firefox plug-in for Windows named Annodex that allows browsing through time-continuous media such as audio and video in the same way that HTML allows browsing through text.
[February 11, 2005, 8:40]
Fuel-cell breakthrough could boost portable power
News Scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) are working to develop micro fuel cells to power portable electronic devices and have made an important breakthrough that may make the technology cheaper to own...
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
IT giants fight wireless patent
News Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) was awarded the patent in 1996, which it claims relates to technologies used in several of IEEE wireless standards. In an announcement on Wednesday, CSIRO said that...
[May 18, 2005, 16:35]
Australia trials virtual surgery technology
News The technology, developed by scientists at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), combines 3D images with an artificial sense of touch to create a realistic simulation of surgical procedures, allowing users...
[November 22, 2001, 15:24]
Wi-Fi standards face patent claim
News The ruling is certainly a blow for Austin, Texas-based Buffalo Technology, which — unless it wins an appeal — could be forced to pay between $1.5m and $2m in damages to CSIRO. But the decision, which essentially upholds the notion that CSIRO owns...
[November 21, 2006, 7:49]
Mac06-zcc
Downloads This zcc-0.96 was compiled by Ken Yap (ken@syd.dit.csiro.au) in January 1996 to include a Z80 assembler, and a linker. This is a Small C compiler for generating Z80 code based on the famous 80ies Small C Compiler originated by James E.
[July 10, 2001, 8:00]
Australian controversy over government Web censorship
News The products were assessed by the CSIRO (an Australian scientific and industrial research organisation) for ease of installation and use. In Australia the Code of Practice that forces ISPs to filter information on the Web has been branded...
[July 3, 2000, 9:31]
Value 'sells Linux to government'
News The way we've done it is really by demonstration," said Graham Williams from the CSIRO. While government departments remain concerned about the implications of using open-source software, successful projects have overcome that concern by simply...
[January 13, 2004, 9:00]
Patent company takes on Wi-Fi industry
News The suit was filed in the Eastern District of Texas — the same district in which the Australian science organisation CSIRO is suing various companies over Wi-Fi patents. A "technology licensing" company called Wi-LAN has sued 22 of the biggest...
[November 2, 2007, 9:45]
Funding crisis threatens SETI@home
News The CSIRO Australian Telescope National Facility's Time Assignment Committee has already approved the installation of the equipment at Parkes. The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from...
[October 15, 2002, 9:07]
Australia censors the Net
News He has ignored community concerns about free speech and privacy, dismissed advice from his own department, the CSIRO and industry experts, and has failed to comprehend the nature of the Internet. The censorship law found to be unconstitutional and...
[July 2, 1999, 9:16]
Mobiles to get motion-charged batteries
News The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has also announced the development of a rechargeable battery system which uses kinetic energy for the Australian military, working together with companies such as...
[November 22, 2007, 15:54]
Yahoo and uni team up on distributed computing
News Google and IBM have provided hardware, software and services to academics in multiple universities to improve computer science students' knowledge of highly parallel computing practices used to work with large data sets, while Australia's...
[November 13, 2007, 9:10]
