Technology, Innovation & Science

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.

Going nativeThe digital natives among you will have been lectured, harangued, convinced and entertained by TED but have you seen one live in your own state?

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.

IT services group Empired has won a long-term, multi-million contract with engineering and construction contractor NRW Holdings.

A US federal judge has thrown out a suit by Apple claiming that Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility is seeking unreasonably high licence fees for the use of patents on wireless technology.

Serco has awarded $50 million in information and communications contracts at Fiona Stanley Hospital, with Data3 and Dimension Data selected for significant deals.

Telstra chief executive David Thodey says strategic decisions the company makes in the next two years will determine its future in a dramatically changed telecommunications market.

Internet service provider iiNet has secured $330 million in debt finance with a syndicate comprising Australia's big four banks.

Vodafone will axe 500 jobs as the telco attempts to revive its ailing Australian business.

Internet service provider iiNet has signed up Marketforce as its new marketing and communications partner, replacing long-time partner Meerkats.

Australian small businesses that sell their goods and services online were 33 per cent more likely to have increased their profits in 2011/12, according to a report from American Express.

A mystery suitor has made a non-binding takeover bid for Perth-based IT services firm ASG Group, valuing it at more than $177 million.

Construction has begun to connect almost 166,000 home and business premises to the high-speed national broadband network, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced.

Telstra Corporation has avoided a fine for breaching privacy rules in 2011.

A major part of a colossal radio telescope that astronomers expect will provide the farthest peek into the universe has been officially opened in the remote, red-dirt desert of the Mid West.

AS Western Australia moves a step closer to the construction of its part of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, the supercomputers behind the scenes are set to provide flow-on benefits to c

The builder of the $37.4-billion national broadband network has committed to freezing the prices of its consumer and business products for five years.

Quickstep has won a $US12 million ($A11.5 million) deal to manufacture carbon fibre wing flaps for Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules aircraft.

IT services firm ASG Group says it is confident of exceeding profit forecasts in financial year 2013 as clients transition to its cloud computing services.

Leighton Holdings is looking to sell its phone and internet infrastructure assets.

Quickflix has signed a deal with international electronics giant Samsung to make its pay-per-view video streaming service available on Samsung televisions and blu-ray players.

A coalition government would provide cheaper broadband services more quickly to Australians with its alternative national broadband network (NBN), opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbu

Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says the opposition should release its costed policy for a national broadband network (NBN), instead of launching a survey.