| Today on iTWire | This Morning South Oakleigh ADSL users hit by outage on Tuesday Written by Sam Varghese About 1000 users of iiNet and Internode ADSL services, who are connected to the exchange in South Oakleigh in Melbourne, were hit by an eight-hour… Read more... NBN interim satellite service shutting, users urged to switch Written by Sam Varghese Australian homes and businesses using NBN Co's interim satellite service will need to switch to an alternative NBN network as the service is shutting down… Read more... Virtual reality takes hold in Aussie market Written by Peter Dinham Virtual Reality penetration will reach 25.5% of Australian households by 2021 based on attachment rates of headsets to VR capable smartphones, games consoles and higher… Read more... Tesla battery system claimed to drop electricity charges by 92% Written by Peter Dinham Tesla installer Natural Solar is claiming a Sydney family has saved 92% on electricity bills in the past 12 months with the installation of a… Read more... Foxtel, News Corp team up on ‘Full on Footy’ offer Written by Peter Dinham Foxtel and News Corp have teamed up to offer a “Full on Footy” pass to give Foxtel Play subscribers sport and lifestyle programming alongside print… Read more... CompTIA says ‘ground-breaking’ certification addresses global security challenge Written by Peter Dinham Global ICT trade association CompTIA has unveiled a claimed ground-breaking, vendor-neutral certification, Cybersecurity Analyst (CSA+), that it says is the first of its kind to… Read more... US Govt, tech firms behind India's cash moves: claim Written by Doron Beer A number of the world's largest tech and finance companies and their leaders are part of a group behind a global war on cash, it… Read more... Megaport hit by losses as global expansion takes its toll Written by Peter Dinham The cost of global expansion has thrown data operator and interconnection services provider Megaport into a net loss of $13.7 million to the end of… Read more... Three groups threaten IoT devices, says expert Written by Ray Shaw Attacks on Internet of Things devices and infrastructures are likely to stem from three groups, with each having of cyber crime and motivated by its… Read more... The Big Data Warehouse landscape – 2016 Written by Ray Shaw The Information Difference is an analyst firm focusing on master data management (MDM). Its Big Data Warehouse Landscape is a listing of big data warehouses… Read more... ZTE – out of the shadows (interview) Written by Ray Shaw ZTE has decided to come out of the shadows and compete head on under its own brand in Australia. Read more... Hills sees revenue fall in first six months of FY17 Written by Sam Varghese Technology solutions company Hills Limited has seen a fall in revenue for the first six months of fiscal 2017, recording a figure of $157.3 million… Read more... Kacific buying new satellite from Boeing Written by Peter Dinham Kacific Broadband Satellites has ordered its Kacific-1 satellite from Boeing after a successful US$147 million capital raising from Australian retail investors to fund the satellite… Read more... Tuesday Afternoon Trump tweeting from insecure Android mobile: claim Written by Doron Beer A Congressman from Los Angeles has called into question the security of President Donald Trump’s mobile phone, surmising that his decision to continue using Twitter… Read more... Hackers take over microphones on Windows PCs to steal data Written by Sam Varghese Hackers targeting people in Ukraine have come up with something unusual: they use the microphones on Windows PCs to steal audio recordings of conversations, screenshots,… Read more... VMware, Intel collaborate on healthcare security Written by Peter Dinham Virtualisation company VMware is collaborating with Intel Health and Life Sciences in an initiative it says is designed to help global healthcare organisations understand the… Read more... Smarter cities a key to Australia’s innovation, economic future: Nokia Written by Peter Dinham Nokia says Australia’s political and industry leaders need a greater and more concerted focus on development of smarter cities as a key enabler of the country’s… Read more... CyanogenMod successor LineageOS sees spurt in downloads Written by Sam Varghese LineageOS, the fork of the CyanogenMod project which shut down in December, has seen more than 550,000 downloads in less than two months, according to… Read more... Cognizant opens Melbourne unit to boost digital business Written by Sam Varghese Digital business company Cognizant has opened what it calls a digital business collaboratory in Melbourne, to provide a dedicated space, technology, managed innovation process, and… Read more... India to offer citizens' data for commercial exploitation Written by Sam Varghese India has taken a leap into the unknown by offering its database containing biometric identities for all its citizens to commercial firms to exploit. Read more... Samsung takes big hit to reputation in US: survey Written by Sam Varghese Samsung has taken a big hit to its reputation, falling to the 49th position in the 2017 reputation quotient ratings issued by Harris Poll. In… Read more... Sponsored Announcements Carbon Black only vendor to secure perfect prevention score in NSS Labs’ advanced endpoint protection - test stopped all attacks Carbon Black, a leader in next-generation endpoint security, has announced it achieved 100% block rate and 100% total coverage score in NSS Labs’ Advanced Endpoint… Read more... Want to Develop a Cross-platform App? Read This First! Developing a cross-platform application is now one of the preferred options when creating a mobile application. The convenience that it provides – one source code… Read more... Data storage lifespans: how long will media really last? By Marina Brook, Managing Director APAC, StorageCraft The sad truth about data storage is that no medium for data storage will last forever. Most of… Read more... ‘Realising business value’ from IT a key for leading IT executive Sean Elwick, St Vincent's Health group IT Director of Transformation, is a man who, by his own admission, is passionate about realising business value from… Read more... Next Telecom wins Australian Gold Customer Service Award again Sydney Monday 6th February 2017: Next Telecom Pty Ltd, one of Australia’s premier (IP) Voice and Data service providers for businesses, today announced it has… Read more... BizData announces natural language collaboration with Narrative Science At BizData, we pride ourselves in selecting only the most innovative technology vendors that will help our customers unlock the total value of Power BI.… Read more... |
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