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NSW Police are trialling an iPad app called Mobile Notices that lets officers look up vehicle registration records and email fines to drivers on the spot, streamlining how notices can be issued during patrols.

Mobile Notices was proposed by front-line officers and built by Australian-based app developer Gridstone, according to the article.

The app is being trialled on 4G-enabled iPad Minis provided to officers for on-the-spot checks and emailing fines.

The app allows officers to look up registration records immediately and email fines directly to drivers at the scene, rather than using paper notices or returning to a station to process fines.

The Victorian government released more than 1,000 datasets to the public at data.vic.gov.au.

The published geospatial datasets include flood plains, water catchment and local government areas, addresses, coastal areas, airports, state boundaries, electoral areas and urban growth information.

Genevieve Bell is Intel’s Australian resident anthropologist, and she said humans are the ultimate mobile platform because mobile technology has been, and will continue to be, built "to extend our bodies and physical reach, augment our deficiencies and increase our capacity to get things done."

Bell’s key point is that mobile technology development is fundamentally aimed at enhancing human capability—extending reach, compensating for limitations and improving our ability to accomplish tasks—highlighting the human-centered purpose behind mobile innovation.