This year's National Salary Survey has been released by the Australian Institute of Management (AIM), and it shows that Australian organisations are losing employees to their competitors due to slower than normal wage growth. [ + ]

As any contractor will tell you, 'time is money'. Persisting with tired old tools and outdated work methods hinders workers' productivity, either because they are tiring to use and slowing them down or because they are not benefiting from faster, smarter technologies that help them get more work done in less time. Either way, doing things the old way is eroding your bottom line. [ + ]

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released a draft decision relating to price regulation for mobile network operators. The decision is the result of a public enquiry which commenced in May 2014. [ + ]

Today's enterprise workspaces are increasingly more social and flexible, and are subject to frequent reconfiguration and updating. To determine how structured cabling can best support flexible workplaces, Siemon recently analysed the cost and environmental impact of various structured cabling designs. Below are the findings. [ + ]

The rise in adoption of automation technologies presents significant opportunities for the electrical industry. However, with varying levels of customer understanding, it's challenging to determine how to capture a piece of this rapidly growing market. [ + ]

Power efficiency is hardly a new concern among data centre operators, but today's constrained budgets and corporate sustainability initiatives have combined to make energy usage minimisation more critical than ever. [ + ]

Low resistance measurements have many and diverse applications, from checking the condition of circuit breaker contacts to verifying the integrity of welded joints. Low resistance test sets are, however, available in an almost bewildering range of types. This article offers some useful advice on choosing the right test set for the application in hand. [ + ]

Infratech Industries has launched Australia's first floating solar system, which is estimated to generate 57% more power than fixed land-based systems. [ + ]

After a nationwide recall of faulty Infinity cables, only 15%* has been remediated. [ + ]

Last year, NSW Fair Trading issued a warning to consumers about the potential risk of using non-compliant electrical products, especially USB-style chargers. [ + ]

If you're after a simple way of determining how green your fleet is, look no further than the Green Vehicle Guide, a comparison website developed by the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development. [ + ]

How often have you relied on your intuition to make important business decisions? Have you ever felt nervous and unsure about the decision and wondered how your company will benefit? Now imagine using clear, actionable data to make intelligent decisions and enhance your company's operations for today and tomorrow with a click of a button - this is possible with analytics. By using analytics, you can sort through data and pull out the important details to inform intelligent business decisions.

The ACI Connect conference and expo, to be held at Sydney Olympic Park on 12-13 August 2015, will feature Engineers Australia's inaugural Future Tech Forum. [ + ]

Residual current devices (RCDs) have long had a bad reputation for causing nuisance tripping and unexplained outages in data centres. Sadly, this perception still exists within the ICT industry and is inconsistent with the latest developments in technology. [ + ]

As we inch ever closer to comprehensive vehicle-to-vehicle communication, transportation organisations around the world are investigating the use of data drawn from smartphones to deliver real-time traffic information. [ + ]