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Revenue from wireless LAN settlements have boosted the financial fortunes of the Commonwealth Science Information and Research Organisation (CSIRO) to the tune of $205 million in the year to June 2009.

The Western Australia-based research centre, designed to help Australia snare the $2.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, has opened in Perth.

The world’s first automated device to grade opals has been unveiled at the 2009 National Council of Jewellery Valuers forum in Sydney.

Students from three Melbourne high schools have taken control of CSIRO’s famous Parkes telescope in NSW using the internet, posting their results on Twitter.

While it may not stop another financial crisis, home-grown technology could be on its way to help over 350 institutions globally including banks and hedge funds significantly reduce risk.

It may be 40 years since man first set foot on the Moon, but only now will people see the “real life” quality footage of Apollo 11 Moonwalk thanks to NASA and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Parkes Radio Observatory.

Management software developed by the CSIRO that boosts the oil and gas industry has bagged a technical innovation award at the 2009 Offshore Asia Conference in Thailand.

CSIRO has sold its Funnelback search engine technology business to open source content management company Squiz.

The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation (CSIRO) has begun to follow-up from its successful wireless technology patent battle, by chasing royalty payments from another group of manufacturers.

The CSIRO will install some 200 solar-powered, sensor network nodes over the next two years to helping rehabilitate rainforest in the Springbrook World Heritage precinct in south-east Queensland, the research group announced today.

Two Queensland-based researchers have just finished working on an animal management system prototype, developed over the past six years, which uses computer software to tell the farming livestock from wild animals.

Wireless technology currently in development by the CSIRO may be the key to bringing a cost effective National Broadband Network to regional and rural Australia, according to the national science organisation.

The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation (CSIRO) has settled its wireless technology patent battle out of court against some of the world’s technology giants, and plans to use the financial windfall to fund new research.

Australian scientific agency the CSIRO reports that a $12 million upgrade to its radio telescope, which will boost bandwidth from 128 MHz to 2 GHz, is almost completed.