Satellite communications provider Inmarsat has entered into an agreement with Internet of Things solutions provider to the agricultural industry Farmbot Monitoring and mobile satellite services Pivotel aimed at bringing IoT-enabled water management solutions to farmers across Australia.
The only logical conclusion that one can draw from the latest inspired effort from the defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute — calling for ISPs to provide a clean Internet — is that the good people at this institute have been smoking some very strong stuff, according to Sam Varghese.
An international team of aerospace engineers is working on building the prototype of a drone that imitates the manoeuvres of the swift, a bird that flies at a pretty fast speed.
Technology analyst firm Gartner is undoubtedly the source of a great deal of well-documented research and relevant statistics about the industry it covers. But on occasion, the company is also the source of some ridiculous material, says Sam Varghese in another biting commentary.
Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has welcomed the steps outlined by the Federal Government's Industry Advisory Panel on the country's next cyber security strategy, saying the IAP chief Andrew Penn agreed with Huawei's submission that the best approach to cyber security was to secure the supply chain and build an independent testing regime for all vendor equipment.
New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission has initiated further consultation on the development of input methodologies for the regulation of fibre fixed line access services.
The 2020 finalists in the communications industry’s premier awards for excellence - the ACOMMS - have been announced by the telecommunications lobby group Communications Alliance.
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