Technology, Innovation & Science

Cost-effective virtual reality in the workplace is becoming … a reality.

A satellite designed and built by Curtin University has launched into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Perth-based Nexxis has developed a unique, spider-like robot designed to inspect hazardous areas and confined spaces in a boost for worker safety.

Australians have given fixed-wireless internet the tick of approval as two major providers today reported strong growth in revenue and earnings in the year to June.

A homegrown satellite designed and built by Curtin University is set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida this weekend.

West Perth-based Definitiv is set to bolster its Asia Pacific reach after being bought by fellow software company The Access Group.

Perth-based tech operations have been busy targeting international expansion opportunities.

The first Western Australian-built spacecraft is set to be deployed to the International Space Station with a goal of eventually being sent to the moon.

Internet and mobile provider TPG Telecom may follow Telstra's lead and sell some of its telecommunication towers as the merged entity pursues opportunities.

Perth-based technology consultancy Velrada has made several new hires to support its growth as it continues to consider ways to raise capital.

A new app aims to reduce social isolation on remote mine sites.

Whether in the stadiums or part of the spectator experience, technology played a big role at the Tokyo Games.

Cirrus Networks' board has continued to reject a takeover proposal made by Webcentral Group, which is now seeking to remove three directors of the local IT services firm.

Shares in IMDEX were up by more than 8 per cent today, after the mining technology company reported a significant jump in revenue and net profit.

ASX-listed DUG Technology is filing patents for a hydrogen energy storage system which it hopes to use to support a supercomputer project in Geraldton.

Perth-based Veris has revealed plans to demerge and publicly list its telecommunications business, Aqura Technologies, following a strong year of growth and significant contract wins.

Telstra has detailed a $1.35 billion share buyback for investors after what is says is a turnaround in its earnings.

Perth tech company Moodle has acquired three of its US-based partners for an undisclosed sum and merged them to form one company, Moodle US.

NBN Co has reported a jump in revenue to $4.6 billion, after connecting nearly a million more residential and business premises to the network in the past 12 months.

Underwater acoustics and coral reseeding will be used at the Ningaloo Reef and Great Barrier Reef in a $27 million Australian Institute of Marine Science project supported by BHP.

Australia’s three biggest internet providers are being taken to court over NBN promotions that the ACCC claims misled hundreds of thousands of customers.

Family Zone has launched a $146 million capital raising to fund its acquisition of UK-based digital safety company Smoothwall.

Few startups will tick all investors’ boxes, but there are some simple criteria to be aware of.

Swoop has secured a more than $5 million, five-year contract with Orro Group to provide NBN enterprise ethernet services to its Western Australian users.

A new online platform aims to deliver ‘adulting 101’ to students.

Telstra is allowing Australians to make free calls to landline numbers and mobiles from any one of its 15,000 payphones.

A sense of unified purpose is needed to protect critical infrastructure.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has joined the board of a Perth-created tech business with clients including NASA and Tesla, Advanced Navigation.

The board of Cirrus Networks has rejected what is calls an inadequate takeover bid from Webcentral Group that valued the Perth-based IT services business at about $30 million.

Cirrus Networks has become the second Perth-based IT services firm to receive a takeover offer in recent weeks, after Victoria's Webcentral Group made an on-market bid.

Christian Porter says he’s taking the long view in his new portfolio, sharpening the focus of industry policy and hoping to improve research commercialisation.

Perth software company Track’em has had a win over former consultants Steve McNally and Keyt Atkinson after a Supreme Court judge described their claims as embarrassing.