The services arm of CDC Global Services in Australia, Praxa, has appointed a new general manager to oversee all of the company’s professional services, outsourced services, customer support, short and long-term projects involving contractors and educational services offered across Australia.

An international team of archaeologists and scientists has found a previously undiscovered wooden structure just a little ways from the stone circle that the world knows as Stonehenge.

The U.S. space agency has set up a website so that all Earthlings can also become Martians. NASA says it is an Age of Virtual Exploration and the Human-Robotic Partnership. Sign up now!

The peak body for the software industry in Queensland has issued a broadside at the head of the state Government for neglecting the important business areas of IT including the NBN in a speech focusing on the relatively insignificant games sector. Software Queensland also criticised the Bligh Government for ignoring its advice on strategy and neglecting SMEs.

The National Broadband Network rollout has been identified as a huge opportunity to grow IT in Queensland according to the head of the state Government. Another key area includes the burgeoning mining software industry.

Telstra, Australia’s dominant telecommunications company and admitted serial overcharger has finally brought to life CEO David Thodey’s promise of months ago to lower prices with pricing that’s closer to competitors, with more generous download limits in some cases – but as you’d expect from Telstra, bundling “conditions” are still in place to access its very lowest prices.

A study of over 120,000 U.S. adults by the American Cancer Society has shown that the more you sit around, the shorter your average life span. So, you better get up and do something.

NASA has announced an experiment that it wishes to run as part of its Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. Undergraduate students will design a reduced gravity experiment and fly it on board one of NASA’s microgravity (“Weightless Wonder”) aircraft.