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14 September, 2013
The nerd factor blamed for drop in IT hopefuls. Last year, 3334 year 12 students studied information processes and technology, which is just a third of the cohort of 10 years earlier. Over the same period, the number of students taking software design and development dropped from 3730 to 1829. the latest GradStats report, which found the median starting salary for ICT graduates last year was $52,500, putting it above professions like accounting and vet science and alongside law.
Labels:
Education,
ICT Capability,
ICT Career,
Women in IT
13 September, 2013
Optus will roll out a second type of 4G network across four capital cities on Friday that it claims can deliver faster video streams and more consistent data download speeds. The new "4G Plus" network is the only mobile broadband network in Australia to use "time division" technology - known as TD-LTE - and follows a Canberra-based trial that started in May. The 4G networks currently operated by Telstra, Vodafone and Optus all use "frequency division" (FD-LTE) technology.
Labels:
ICT Capability,
research
12 September, 2013
10 September, 2013
Lawyers next for tech-driven outsourcing. In Australia this week as the keynote speaker at the annual LawTech Summit in Noosa, Queensland, Mr Kowalski says computers themselves will take over much of the brain work that keeps lawyers in jobs. The information and communications technologies sector has experienced a similar phenomenon over the past 10 years. Companies have sent programming and support work to developing countries, a move Australians ICT professionals say has destroyed career opportunities for local graduates and mid-career workers.
09 September, 2013
The United States' National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google's Android mobile operating system.
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