Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne does not think there will be in any change in the decision to ban the Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei Technologies from playing a role in the country's 5G networks.

Australian Signals Directorate-certified Protected cloud provider Vault has announced a collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney and the CSIRO SME Connect office to give a boost to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, says lower prices and growing data services have been the key consumer benefits in the period 2017–18, with mobile phone services dropping by 8.3% in real terms, and fixed broadband prices falling by 1.5%.

Custom software development firm ThoughtWorks has rejected the Federal Government's assertion that it is not interested in breaking encryption, pointing out that the encryption law passed in December has "the direct and inevitable consequence of compromising the integrity of cryptographic systems".

Chinese companies now dominate venture capital funded companies in the global tech space, according to worldwide data and analytics vendor GlobalData.

And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.

Have a great day!

Stan Beer, Editor, iTWire

ADVERTISE IN THIS NEWSLETTER & iTWire.com

Contact:

andrew.matler@itwire.com

0412 390 000