FTIT February 20 2002 - IT & telecoms in Australia An urgent need to attract investment The government is making stronger efforts to encourage innovation in IT |  Read Telecoms & mobile expansion On the surface, the liberalisation of the Australian telecommunications market has been a great success |  Read Investment - Quieter times for IT companies In the heady days before the bottom fell out of the market for technology stocks, Patrick Llewellyn might have been a creation straight out of the New Economy textbook |  Read Seeing Machines drive to cut road accidents It sounds like Big Brother - a device that reads and interprets a person's face to detect fatigue, inattention, even emotion |  Read Catalyst Interactive's e-learning programme Catalyst Interactive is a Canberra-based e-learning company that, in some senses, emerged as a response to the difficulties posed by Australia's vast continent and small population |  Read I-Site digital mapping When engineers working on a new bridge to run parallel to the Hoover Dam called on I-Site, an Australian company, to create a three-dimensional digital model of the dam, they were a bit sceptical |  Read Virtual robots save time and money Founded in 1993, ARRM makes robots designed to carry out complex and often labour-intensive tasks in diagnostic laboratories |  Read Wiring up the vines to stay ahead of competitors On first sight, Joe Jones' Kurrajong Vineyard in the heart of Australia's Hunter Valley is as quaintly rustic and untouched by the hand of time as any sentimental, passing traveller could wish |  Read