| Today on iTWire | This Afternoon BidEnergy in the clouds with Flight Centre deal Written by Peter Dinham Australian energy spend management platform, BidEnergy, has sealed a deal to provide its cloud‐based platform to Flight Centre. Read more... NZ's Commerce Commission wants Chorus copper lines capacity upgrade Written by Peter Dinham New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency, The Commerce Commission, has made a draft decision that the country’s largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, should upgrade… Read more... ACCC takes contempt action against Electronic Bazaar’s Dhruv Chopra Written by Peter Dinham The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted contempt action in the Federal Court against Dhruv Chopra, the sole operator of the online electronics store… Read more... Webjet, Microsoft build ‘first-of-a-kind' blockchain solution Written by Peter Dinham Webjet and Microsoft claim the build of a “first-of-kind” travel industry blockchain proof-of-concept (POC) solution has the potential to transform the way the entire travel… Read more... Zeiss VR ONE Plus now in Australia Written by Ray Shaw Many VR headsets use a smartphone for content, and lower cost plastic lenses – Zeiss’s new VR One Plus have Zeiss precision optical lenses. Read more... Apps don’t always talk to each other Written by Ray Shaw Apps can be craps when trying to interconnect. You may have live, real time data in Salesforce, want to use some of that in Marketo,… Read more... Tenable Network Security joins McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Written by Ray Shaw Most enterprise users adopt a layered security approach (best of breed products from disparate companies) but in doing so often create blind spots. McAfee ePolicy… Read more... HR and Finance must break down the barriers to benefit from disruption Written by Ray Shaw All companies, especially those seeking rapid growth or to disrupt the “industry” face two basic issues - scarcity of funding and a shortage of human… Read more... Where there is a Willis, there is a way Written by Ray Shaw After a long hunt, Oracle has found its new Regional Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, Rob Willis following the departure of outspoken Tim… Read more... This Morning Motorola Solutions buys Australia’s Gridstone Written by Peter Dinham Motorola Solutions has acquired Australian-based app developer Gridstone in a deal which the US ICT services and communications giant says extends the reach and capability… Read more... Smartphone VR: over half of VR shipments by 2021 yet just 7% of hardware revenues Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Smartphones will bring VR to the mainstream, but engagement and margin will remain a challenge. Read more... SimpliVity on and off track with Red Bull F1 team Written by Peter Dinham The Red Bull Formula One racing team has chosen Australian hyperconverged infrastructure provider SimpliVity to refresh its virtualised IT infrastructure on and off the track. Read more... SUSE announces first acquisition Written by Sam Varghese SUSE Linux has been acquired thrice in its history. Now the company, a Nuremberg-based independent business unit of the British mainframe group Micro Focus, has… Read more... SUSE's enterprise Linux gets a big upgrade Written by Sam Varghese A major upgrade to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was released on Tuesday in the shape of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Service Pack 2. Read more... BSA settles Australian software piracy cases Written by Peter Dinham Software industry advocacy group, the BSA|The Software Alliance, has settled three court cases in Australia, awarded a total of $58,000 in damages following the unlicensed… Read more... Verizon helps out with fight against childhood rheumatic heart disease Written by Peter Dinham The Australian arm of giant US telco, Verizon, has partnered with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), using cloud technology as part… Read more... Gumtree’s Gumbot, new live chat service and better help Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Forget ‘Waiting for Godot,’ your wait for Gumbot has ended for those who use Facebook Messenger and want a chatbot’s help to search, browse and… Read more... IA: Aussies show they want high broadband speeds, time for govt to review NBN strategy Written by Peter Dinham Internet Australia’s Laurie Patton says the latest financial and performance report on the National Broadband Network shows that Australians want high speeds for their broadband… Read more... Miracast Wireless Display adapter (review) Written by Ray Shaw Miracast is a wireless, cross-platform, industry standard for screen mirroring a compatible smartphone, tablets or a Windows PC. Rather than use an HMDI cable the… Read more... Mac or Windows notebook/USB charger (review) Written by Ray Shaw This multi-faceted, multi-tipped notebook/USB charger is just the answer to replace a lost or broken charger – with the added flexibility that it can run… Read more... Android Auto coming to ‘every car’ in over 30 countries ‘soon’ Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt In the coming days, Android Auto 2.0 is coming to every Android OS 5.0 or better phone in over 30 countries, so even if you… Read more... Sponsored Announcements Mobileum acquired by Audax Private Equity Leading telco and big data analytics company Mobileum has been acquired by Boston Massachusetts-based private equity firm Audax in a deal which Mobileium says will… Read more... Yellowfin to reveal advanced data visualization capabilities during Yellowfin 7.3 launch Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, is set to unveil a number of new advanced data visualization capabilities during the launch of… Read more... How SD-WAN segmentation cuts network complexity By Graham Schultz, Sales Director Australia and New Zealand, Silver Peak There are multiple reasons why the IT industry is so excited about software-defined wide… Read more... Simplifying Disaster Recovery in a Complex World By Nicki Pereira, CTO Zettagrid In a digital world where everyone and everything is always online, the importance of a disaster recovery (DR) plan serves… Read more... Business Intelligence vendor Yellowfin to unveil Data Preparation Module Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, is set to launch a new Data Preparation Module in a series of Webinars throughout Thursday… Read more... Sri Lanka Growing as Sourcing Destination for Australian Business Gold Coast, Australia, 26 October 2016: The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) announced today that Sri Lanka is growing rapidly as… Read more... |
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