While Huawei continues its struggle against Western bureaucracies, Nokia has announced the launch of its Network Operations Master to provide communication service providers (CSPs) with “highly-automated and scalable software for managing their 5G networks”.

Australia’s Health Informatics Society (HISA) and the Digital Health Agency have joined forces to launch a new professional development program to identify the necessary digital health capabilities for nurses and midwives to further improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care that they deliver.

New Zealand competition regulator The Commerce Commission has received a clearance application from payments terminals provider Verifone New Zealand to acquire the assets used by Smartpay Holdings and its subsidiaries to operate the Smartpay business in New Zealand.

The Victorian Government is funding a trial, to be implemented by LoRaWan provider NNNCo to test Internet of Things (IoT) technology on farms in four regional areas of the southern Australian state.

Tech giant IBM will sell one of its remaining divisions and disappear into the company it acquired last year — open source firm Red Hat — the veteran technology scribe Robert X. Cringely says in a shocking annual tech prediction.

The Australian Computer Society, the industry association for Australia’s computer professionals, is in disarray. The organisation is without a President, there are calls for the CEO’s resignation, and serious doubts have emerged over the organisation’s finances and its capacity to properly represent the profession.

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