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Wanting to work together on national research projects that combines the expertise and resources of both organisations, NBN Co and CISRO will strengthen research and planning for Australia's needs in the post-COVID digital age.

CEDA, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, has called for both major political parties during the election campaign to outline their policies and plans for delivering economic growth.

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has expressed alarm that Australia’s information technology skills have dropped from a ranking of 27 last year to 36 this year.

Telstra CEO Andrew Penn has announced that the dominant Australian telco will inject an additional $500 million into upgrading its mobile network over the next two years in his maiden speech as the head of the company. The new investment will bring Telstra’s total mobile network investment to more than $5 billion over the next three years.

Cloud vendors may be wildly spruiking their wares - but they need to evolve their offerings further according to ANZ chief information officer Anne Weatherston who does not believe cloud is likely to be relevant for banks for another five years.

Whether they were intended to be such or not, shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull's pronouncements this week on the future of the NBN under a Coalition Government have been seized on and reported and analysed as being a major announcement of Coalition policy. If that was the intent, the way in which they were delivered was somewhat curious.

Microsoft's chief of strategy and research, Craig Mundie, made some bold predictions at yesterday's CEDA talk, bemoaning Microsoft's slow moves and questioning the 'persistence' of today's hottest phenomenon, the tablet PC!

The national broadband network will act as a double edged sword for media organisations in Australia according to ABC managing director Mark Scott. While it will open a truly national market for broadband content, it will also encourage 'upstart' entrants to the already crowded media landscape.

Voters face 'stark choices' in terms of the IT&T policies that Labor and the Coalition are taking to the federal election according to CSC Australia's chief technology and innovation officer, Bob Hayward.