Newly published figures show that 40,000 jobs were created in Australia’s ICT sector in the two years between 2015 and 2016, but the task ahead to create and grow the country’s ICT workforce further is a major challenge for the industry.

Once the darling of the political land-scape, it seems the Australian Games development industry is again needing to raise the profile. As such the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA) CEO, Ron Curry has got on to the front foot with an open letter to Senator Mitch Fifield the Minister for Communications and the Arts.

Whether you need a lot of data with unlimited talk and text to national numbers, or 4GB data at almost half the price you once paid, Vaya’s value just got higher.

New research on over 5000 global consumers shows overwhelming support for the use of chatbots for simple tasks – they are quicker and take less work than talking to a human, it has been claimed.

HP Inc has used its long-term support of the movie industry to unveil new models of the Spectre x2, the Envy 13 and the Envy x360 at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has signalled a May launch for a request for tenders from testers of its previously announced Broadband Performance Monitoring and Reporting Program.

Global unified communications provider BroadSoft has landed the first Australian client for its loop managed cloud platform, with telco Optus deploying the solution with its customers.

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