Telstra is boosting Internet speeds for almost a million of its home and small business customers with a National Broadband Network speed upgrade to the standard plus NBN 50 speed tier.

A cloud-based data storage repository used by business analytics software provider Birst was left unsecured resulting in data about financial services firm Capital One, among others, being exposed, it has been claimed. CapitalOne, however, has issued a strong refutation of the claim.

Symbio Networks' wholesale voice network now extends to New Zealand. Symbio - part of the MNF Group - has points of presence in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch, providing redundant interconnection with NZ telcos Spark New Zealand, Vodafone, 2Degrees and Chorus.

The video and interactive games industry in New Zealand is booming as it edged towards half a billion dollars in revenue in 2017, a 7% increase on the previous year.

Intel has updated patches issued earlier for its Broadwell and Haswell range of processors to guard against one variant of the Spectre vulnerability.

SSL certificate wholesaler Trustico has revoked tens of thousands of certificates that it issued on behalf of digital certificate provider DigiCert, an order that is likely to occasion the purchasers of those certificates much pain.

Buy one, get one free is the great BOGOF deal many have done in various industries, with Kogan Mobile offering this deal to new M, L or XL 365-day customers.

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