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There's more misery ahead for ICT executives, with the weakening job market for the technology high flyers at the end of last year carrying over into this year. The extent of the crisis is evident with the latest report on executive demand for January plummeting 28% since December.

South Australia's Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis has labelled a plan by the state’s Liberal Opposition leader Steven Marshall to scrap the Renewable Energy Target (RET) as dangerous for both investment in South Australia and the “stability of the electricity grid”.

Optus is boosting its investment in regional mobile phone coverage, announcing plans for the installation of satellite small cells across six different locations in South Australia and five locations in the Northern Territory.

Mobile phone and mobile device users flooded Telstra’s mobile network with 76% more data this year that they did in 2015, with the time of the power outages that blacked out much of South Australia topping the telco’s list for data usage in a 24-hour period.

Construction has started on the first of 139 schools in South Australia receiving infrastructure overhauls in the state government’s $250 million STEM works programme.

Comparison website finder.com.au says final rollouts of the National Broadband Network for this year will see 152,800 premises across 117 Australian suburbs become NBN-ready over the Christmas week.

South Australia has opened a new Manufacturing Technologies Centre designed to help businesses grow by providing access to the state’s best researchers, financial institutions and global supply chains.

Software industry advocacy group, the BSA|The Software Alliance, has settled three court cases in Australia, awarded a total of $58,000 in damages following the unlicensed use of software programmes owned by its members - Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft - in breach of copyright law.

South Australia’s peak environmental organisation, Conservation SA, has installed two ZCell batteries to charge an electric car and to provide energy for emergency lighting and data centre back-up for its office.

Battery company Reflow says its advanced ZCell batteries installed at a residential property in South Australia worked uninterrupted during the recent storm-caused power failure that blacked out the rest of the state.

Telstra and Cohda Wireless have "successfully trialled Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technology over Telstra’s 4G network in South Australia" on the way to V2X tech.

When the lights went out in South Australia and the entire state was hit by power outages, energy infrastructure provider Emerson Network Power required a rapid response to calls for assistance from customers for the protection of crucial information stored in data centres under its management.

The Australian Wind Alliance is hailing a deal between South Australia’s Hornsdale Wind Farm and the ACT government for making wind power the country’s “cheapest new electricity source”.

Technology transfer will be one of the key benefits of an agreement about to be signed between South Australia’s Water Industry Alliance (WIA) and the Confederation of Indian Industry and India’s Triveni Water Institute.

Telstra has used the additional spectrum it purchased at auction earlier this year to deliver a speed boost for its mobile customers in North Queensland and South Australia with about 200 of its base station sites receiving up to 50% more 4G capacity.

Online property exchange PEXA says the introduction of legislation allowing online property conveyancing in South Australia makes buying and selling property in the state easier, with conveyancers, solicitors, banks, credit unions and mutuals now able to digitally exchange property.

NEC is investing $4.38 million in setting up a new global Security Intel Centre in Adelaide to help address what it says are growing demands for cyber security around the world.

A local government department in South Australia is continuing to use software that runs only on an MS-DOS-based system, even though its licence for the product ran out in March.

The South Australian port of Flinders is deploying a workforce planning and management system from Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes company to help improve the efficiency of its workforce.

Mobile payments provider SmartTrans has inked a partnership agreement with winemaker, Tim Adams Wines, to market and sell Australian wines in China online.