Author: Justin Hendry

Trump threatens more tariffs for countries with digital taxes

Posted on   |  by Kanishka Singh
US President Donald Trump has ramped up threats against countries that have digital taxes, promising “subsequent additional tariffs” on their goods if those nations do not remove such legislation....

US voids Biden’s semiconductor research grant deal

Posted on   |  by David Shepardson
The US Commerce Department said on Monday that one of its agencies will take over operational responsibility to oversee US$7.4 billion in semiconductor research funds, saying that the private...

ResetData spins up its first sovereign ‘AI factory’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
An AI supercomputer more powerful than Australia’s leading research compute clusters has come online, offering a new platform for businesses and governments to access sovereign AI compute infrastructure. ResetData...

Defence buys quantum processor from SQC

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Silicon Quantum Computing has entered a multimillion-dollar contract with Defence that will see it provide an Australian-made quantum machine learning processor to make sense of large datasets. The Sydney-based...

Telstra Health lands $33m My Health Record deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Telstra Health has won a $33 million contract with the federal government to replace the My Health Record’s clunky PDF format with a new open-source health data sharing standard....

‘Tell us once’ lurches back to life after a decade

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
It’s not often a ‘tell us once’ digital strategy rates a mention by a federal Treasurer, let alone in the wake of a much-hyped economic roundtable aimed at fixing...

Tech Council pushes more ‘realistic’ R&D target

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s peak tech industry lobby has urged the federal government to adopt an R&D investment target of 2 per cent of GDP by 2035, putting it at odds with...

Call for crackdown on Big Four software tie-ups

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Big Four consulting firms that have commercial agreements with software vendors would be barred from advising federal government agencies on technology projects under a proposal from TechnologyOne. In a...

Victoria govt joins Canberra’s AWS mega-deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Victorian government has renewed its state purchasing contract with Amazon Web Services, giving public servants an “enhanced” way to buy hundreds of cloud services from the hyperscaler. The...