EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

It may be April fool's day but what Energy Australia is doing with smart metering in Australia is (thankfully) no joke.

IBM has now been brought into the three-year, $170m Intelligent Networks project at the utility, charged with finding a way to aggregate and analyse data off the sensor network.

Last-mile connection to the customer premises is also an interesting area with a WiMAX trial ongoing in Newcastle, although other technologies are also being considered.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | April 01, 2009

IBM has won a $3.2 million systems integration deal to help Energy Australia capture and make use of the data drawn from its world-leading $170 million Intelligent Network or "smart grid".

By David Neal | April 01, 2009

Google has announced a new arm of its business, Google Ventures, a technology investment fund.

By Staff Writers | April 01, 2009

China on Tuesday rejected a report suggesting it may be involved in using computer networks to spy on exiled Tibetans and foreign governments, accusing its authors of being possessed by "the ghost of the Cold War".

By Ritsuko Ando | April 01, 2009

As IBM's negotiations to buy Sun Microsystems Inc enter another week, some analysts are weighing the risks in what could be the biggest U.S. technology deal this year.

By Shaun Nichols | April 01, 2009

Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its Windows Server platform for embedded devices.

By Shaun Nichols | April 01, 2009

The initial roster for the Open Cloud Manifesto was released on Monday, and many of the biggest names in the web services industry are conspicuously absent.

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