The Vocus Group telecommunications company has entered a contract with the Barossa Joint Venture to build, operate and own a high-capacity submarine fibre optic network for the proposed Barossa offshore gas project in the Bonaparte Basin, to the north of Darwin.

Researchers at the CSIRO, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Queensland Health have developed a new tool to predict the global spread of human infectious diseases, like dengue, and track them to their source.

Salary packaging firm AccessPay is sending users who ask for a password reset the new password in plaintext, an IT consultant has told iTWire.

One of the partners of a law firm that has been appointed by Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, as a strategic counsel "to defend the company locally against malicious and false attacks designed to cause us reputational damage", says there are no plans to take anyone to court over criticism of the company.

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has selected the Play in the Grey analytics platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to gain deeper insights into game play in order to improve team performance.

Remote connectivity services provider LogMeIn has revealed new features of of its LastPass Identity service which allow employees to log in without having to type their passwords.

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