Australian universities are set to start using technology to detect whether students have used third parties to complete their assessments — what is known as contract cheating — with Turnitin, an academic integrity technology firm, saying that the software had been created by local academics themselves.

NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has warned customers not to be taken in scammers who try to impersonate its officials.

Australia’s second largest telco Singtel Optus will stop issuing bills in Braille to visually-impaired customers as it is moving to a new billing platform, the telco says.

The University of Sydney’s School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering says it is one step closer to developing a more efficient and cost-effective acess to space platform for satellite launches.

Unified communications vendor Avaya is looking at a leveraged buyout offer from a private equity company with its value, inclusive of debt, being put at about US$5 billion, the news agency Reuters has reported.

Australia could double its electricity storage capacity through a series of pumped storage hydropower projects that are planned across five states, a researcher at The Australian National University claims.

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