| Today on iTWire | This Afternoon Divvy adds hotel carparks to its parking platform Written by Peter Dinham Online car parking platform Divvy Parking is partnering with hotel managment group TFE Hotels to roll out its smart parking solution, allowing users of the… Read more... Fibre optics firm plans to offer 10Gbps speeds Written by Sam Varghese Fibre optics provider Fiber Corp plans to disrupt the broadband market by offering speeds between 200Mbps and 10Gbps to high-rise residential and commercial developments in… Read more... Aussies say Gidday to Huawei Mate 9 Written by Ray Shaw Huawei’s Mate 9, a 5.9” phablet, will hit Aussie shores in Q1, 2017. The phablet has been getting great international reviews and shares the P9's… Read more... Global Insurtech platform revenues to hit US$235 billion in 5 years: Juniper Written by Peter Dinham Fintech platforms are forecast to garner revenues of almost US$235 billion globally by 2021, from providing services to the worldwide insurance industry. Read more... AI-created Christmas song has little festive cheer Written by Sam Varghese An attempt to get a Christmas song written and sung using a form of artificial intelligence has not turned out to be very inspiring. Read more... 1ST Group branches into pet care market with new portal Written by Peter Dinham Australian online heath portal group 1ST Group, has diversified into the pet care market with the launch of a new portal for pet services, starting… Read more... Students find it easy to track people through metadata Written by Sam Varghese Three primary school students, who had access to metadata similar to that which has been available to Australian government agencies since October 2015, were able… Read more... Crucial DDR4, 2666MT/s server memory – get some fast! Written by Ray Shaw Crucial has released DDR4 server DIMMs in 8-64GB capacities with a speed of 2666 MT/s for increased performance and bandwidth within data centres and hyper-scale environments. Read more... Freeview gives free-to-air TV services a boost in Aussie market Written by Peter Dinham The Freeview free digital TV service is claiming strong growth in the Australian market with household penetration of its service reaching the 20% mark this… Read more... Microsoft claims 'best' Surface sales, but offers no numbers Written by Sam Varghese Microsoft says that November was its best month yet for Surface sales but offered no numbers to back up the claims. Read more... VR or virtual shambles Written by Ray Shaw ANALYSIS Virtual Reality (VR) needs standards, and fast. If there is one thing I have learned, each manufacturer has a different take on what constitutes… Read more... Top pet names of 2016 Written by Ray Shaw As iTWire readers have a proclivity for pets and chew up so many bytes viewing grumpy cat and cute dog videos, we thought you might… Read more... Apple blocks Samsung pay app for iPhones Written by Sam Varghese Apple has refused a Samsung pay app for iOS a place in its App Store, according to a report in the South Korean publication, The… Read more... H&R Block finds inkjet printer cheaper than laser Written by Stephen Withers Tax accountant H&R Block Mudgee has slashed its printing costs by installing an Epson WorkForce Pro. Read more... This Morning Inmarsat beams in on $7m border protection broadband contract Written by Peter Dinham UK-based global satellite provider Inmasat has been contracted to equip Australia’s new fleet of Cape Class border protection vessels with high-speed mobile satellite broadband connectivity. Read more... Majority of Aussies don’t understand the NBN: iSelect Written by Peter Dinham It seems the much-discussed and debated National Broadband Network may not yet have caught the attention of many Australians – with new research released by… Read more... Government proposes broadband levy on telcos to help fund regional NBN rollout Written by Peter Dinham The federal government has proposed legislation to establish a Regional Broadband Scheme and the introduction of an industry levy to fund the costs of paying… Read more... Splunk opens new Melbourne HQ Written by Stephen Withers San Francisco-based operational Intelligence software developer Splunk today formally opened its new ANZ headquarters in Melbourne. Read more... FaaS, SaaS, Blockchain and a few other buzzwords for 2017 Written by Ray Shaw As another year ends, iTWire receives lots of “predictions” – most are about security, cloud, and will Trump be good for IT, let alone the world.… Read more... WD ups storage with new 14TB Helium hard disk and 7.68TB SSD Written by Ray Shaw WD has upped the capacity of its proven Ultrastar 12TB He12, a fourth generation, 3.5”, helium-filled hard disk drive, to 14TB and a 7.68TB NVMe,… Read more... The serious business of ransomware Written by Ray Shaw About 59.3% of businesses in Australia and New Zealand have already been hit with a ransomware attack while 79.6% of businesses have received, and recognised,… Read more... AOC's AGON assists Aguilar assess assassin appetites Written by Ray Shaw AOC AGON gaming monitors are used by Callum Lynch in the forthcoming Assassins Creed big screen movie based on the action adventure video game series… Read more... Tenable’s APRA compliance monitoring solution Written by Ray Shaw Tenable Network Security’s new security analytics and dashboards enable Australian financial services organisations to demonstrate compliance with APRA’s security guidelines. Read more... UltraServe elevates Vishnu Roy to global operations role Written by Peter Dinham Australian ecommerce specialist UltraServe has appointed former IBM and Dimension Data senior manager Vishnu Roy to a newly created role of vice-president operations. Read more... Sponsored Announcements Ballistix improves CPU and GPU performance with top gaming memory Proves fast, easy, and affordable way to up your game SYDNEY, 24 November 2016 – For more than a decade, Ballistix has injected speed and… Read more... If storage were invented today, here’s what it would look like Let us picture the ideal storage platform if the technology were invented today, without limitations, pre-conceived ideas or restrictions. Read more... 2017: SD-WAN advances towards mainstream David Hughes, Founder and CEO of Silver Peak, takes a look at what next year holds for networking technology. Hughes has been awarded more than… Read more... A Bumper Christmas eClub Event Celebrates 20 Years of Offis Multi-Cloud Services Sydney cloud services company Offis is celebrating its twentieth birthday in the only way it knows how: filling a room with some of the smartest… Read more... Yellowfin, La Trobe University launch partnership with analytics challenge award Australian-based global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has officially launched its industry partnership with La Trobe University with the presentation of the… Read more... The Secrets to True Innovation - Amazon Futurist HB Siegel to Visit Australia Amazon may once have been ‘just’ an online bookseller, but how should anyone describe the company today? Its ever-growing retail operation aside, Amazon has also… Read more... |
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