Technology, Innovation & Science

Australia's number two telco, Optus, has posted a 9.2 per cent fall in third quarter net profit amid flat mobile subscriber growth.

One of the construction partners for the $37.4 billion national broadband network is significantly behind with its cable rollout in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Ter

Business-focused telco Amcom Telecommunications has delivered a 20 per cent lift in first half profit and flagged a similar result for the full year.

Shares in JB Hi-fi have soared by more than 15 per cent after the electronics retailer announced it had lifted its first half profit by three per cent.

Vodafone Australia's revenue fell by 16 per cent in the last three months of 2012 as it continued to lose thousands of customers.

Telstra shares are higher after the telco lifted its first-half profit and said it was on track to achieve its full-year growth targets.

The Liberal-National coalition has questioned the value of Labor's $37 billion national broadband network, but farmers appear to be happy with its progress.

Internet search giant Google has won a legal battle with the competition watchdog over claims it engaged in misleading or deceptive advertising.

Information technology and consulting firm Enabling has opened a Perth office to meet increasing demand for its services.

Perth-based online streaming entertainment provider Quickflix has again broadened its reach, signing a deal with LG Electronics to provide content through LG-branded televisions and Blu-ray players

Perth-based Austco Communications has received a $US1.8 million purchase order from Canada’s Honeywell to provide nurse call systems for Ontario’s new Oakville Hospital.

Perth-based internet service provider iiNet has been appointed preferred national broadband network supplier by Tasmania’s Department of Police & Emergency Management.

TNG has begun discussions with a European engineering and metallurgical technology group over the commercialisation of the Perth-based vanadium miner’s proprietary TIVAN hydrometallurgical process.

Perth-based IT consulting and services firm Ajilon is expanding its services to include recruitment through a merger with Icon.

A Leighton Holdings subsidiary will carry out work to prepare Telstra's pits and pipes in two states for the national broadband network (NBN), in a deal worth $90 million.

The pace of construction on the government's $37.4 billion broadband network will continue to ramp up after exceeding its 2012 year-end rollout target, the federal government says.

The builder of the $37 billion high-speed National Broadband Network (NBN) says it is working feverishly to meet its most recent construction targets.

The future of Telstra Corporation's Trading Post is under a cloud after the competition regulator blocked a proposed deal with online classifieds operator carsales.com.

A YOUNG Perth entrepreneur has teamed up with a leader among Malaysian start-up businesses in a bid to boost the success of local technology entrepreneurs.

Perth-based Azure Healthcare has announced a deal to acquire Sedco Communications, one of its main competitors in the hospital communications systems sector.

EMERGING mining services company Scanalyse is following the lead of established players like Ausdrill, Lycopodium and Forge by expanding to Africa.

Australians are increasingly using their mobile devices to shop in the lead up to Christmas, PayPal data shows.

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Vodafone Hutchison Australia looks set to remain on the local scene for a while yet after shareholders approved chief executive Bill Morrow's 2013 business plan for boosting the telco's network per

Perth company Transaction Solutions International has received backing to the tune of $22 million from an Indian private equity group to fund the development of an ATM business on the sub-continent

The $51 million Murchison Widefield Array radio-telescope has been launched, boosting the nation's rapidly advancing radio-astronomy capabilities.

Renewable energy technology firm Carnegie Wave Energy has secured $5.8 million in funding from the government and the private sector.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says the national broadband network will hit the rollout targets in its $37.4 billion corporate plan.

THE growing use of iPads by airlines for passengers has created a growth market for Malaga-based company PC Locs, which has just won its largest contract with Qantas.

Myer has shrugged off the Click Frenzy debacle and says it's pleased with the response to its online sale.

Traffic in Perth is getting a push in the right direction with the launch of padded vehicles to clear breakdowns from the Graham Farmer Freeway tunnel.