EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon everyone,

Continuing our research theme this week, AARNet is involved in a major international demonstration of a cosmic imaging technique with the results to be broadcast in France this week.

The academic network is connecting three radio telescopes locally to the research project involving contributions from 13 countries.

The technique they're demonstrating is supposed to create images of the sky that are 100x clearer than is possible from an optical telescope. Wish we were there to see it in action...!

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Staff writers | January 15, 2009

Australian researchers will join their counterparts from 13 countries to demonstrate a way of generating cosmic radio images up to 100 times clearer than is possible from the best optical telescopes.

By Staff writers | January 15, 2009

Telcos trying to promote new phone plans and other related services accounted for over half of all Do Not Call Register complaints in the last 12 months.

By Staff writers | January 15, 2009

The NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) has revamped its IT architecture by consolidating email and backup applications and servers from 101 sites statewide into two data centres in Sydney.

By Staff writers | January 15, 2009

A United States firm is claiming to have developed the foundations for a new field of applied optics that, when perfected, could lead to invisibility curtains, cloaks and 'super' lenses.

By Iain Thomson | January 15, 2009

SCO has submitted a plan to bankruptcy court that would allow it to auction off core assets in order to get enough operating capital to finish its legal battles.

By Staff Writers | January 15, 2009

The chance to be the caretaker of a tiny tropical island in Australia has sparked so much interest around the world that a rush of applications crashed the website advertising the post.

By Staff Writers | January 15, 2009

The world's second richest man, Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, won control for free on Wednesday of a Web address in his name that an Indonesian had tried to sell him for US$55 million.

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