Having endured the weirdest year any of us could have imagined, what will be different in 2021?



The free Samsung TV Plus streaming service is now available to Australians with Samsung smart TVs.

Chartered Accountants, the professional membership body and regulator of accountants in Australia and New Zealand will use the Janison Insights online assessment platform and Janison Remote proctoring technology to deliver the online exams for all five core modules of the Chartered Accountants Program.

Venture investment platform OurCrowd and Bank of New Zealand are collaborating to provide the bank's customers with direct access to invest in OurCrowd companies and venture funds.

Taiwanese sources suggest the fabled Apple Car will be released in September 2021. Could Project Titan be coming to fruition?

Increasing from a 5Mbps speed capped limit to a whopping and quadrupled "up to 20Mbps" speed capped limit for otherwise unlimited data usage, TPG's felix mobile service just made itself even more attractive.

Origin Energy has paid a penalty of $126,000 after the competition regulator, the ACCC, issued it with an infringement notice for an alleged false or misleading representation in a price increase letter sent to residential electricity customers in Victoria.

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

That's our final morning newsletter for 2020. If you're taking a break too, make the best of it in these still strange circumstances. If you have to work, thanks for keeping things running for the rest of us.

We'll be back on 11 January 2021.

Stephen Withers, Morning Newsletter Editor, iTWire

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