Australia's second largest telecommunications provider Singtel Optus has been hit with a class action, with the law firm Slater and Gordon saying it had been filed on behalf of people affected by last year's data breach.



Connected hospital interoperability platform Olinqua and FiveP - developers of role-based messaging solution Baret – have announced a strategic partnership at the HIMSS23 global health information and technology conference being held this week in Chicago.

Broadband operator NBN Co has claimed the rollout of its national fibre upgrades will provide more than 1,000 job opportunities in urban and rural Australia over the next two and a half years.

DCI Data Centres, the data centre arm of Brookfield Global Data Centre, has finished the construction of one of the first two generation cloud data centres in Auckland.

Telecommunications provider Telstra has breached consumer protection rules after it failed to inform more than 5,400 subscribers about restricting or suspending their services, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has found.

Australlia needs to remember that the country's electricity grid and charging infrastructure are “currently not sufficiently equipped to handle a significant uptake of electric vehicles”, according to one expert from Monash University’s Energy Institute.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire