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Australia’s Top 10 Inventions: Wireless LAN
To celebrate Australia Day this week, we’re looking at some of the best inventions to ever come out of our sunburnt country. Today, we pay homage to Dr John O’Sullivan, who’s work at the CSIRO helped create the technology behind wireless LAN, giving people all over the world the joy of connected devices without a…
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CSIRO Pockets A Cool $200 Million Through Wi-Fi Patents
According to Asher Moses at the Sydney Morning Herald, the CSIRO just received it’s first royalty paycheck for licences on its wireless data patents, which are the cornerstone for Wi-Fi. It was a cool $200 million. Looks like first round’s on them!