| Today on iTWire | This Morning Entrepreneurial spirit pervades the Xmas spirit for small business owners Written by Peter Dinham Australian small business owners are an entrepreneurial lot, with many choosing to operate more than one business at a time and working so hard they… Read more... Xmas, New Year spending to hit $100 billion: Tyro Written by Peter Dinham With Christmas and the year’s end there’s always a swag of reports about festive season spending. In a new report from EFTPOS payments provider Tyro,… Read more... Voice, facial recognition growing in use as security for mobile Written by Peter Dinham Voice and facial recognition is gaining ground as a major security measure, with more than 600 million mobile devices expected to be using the technology… Read more... NAB loves its home-loan customers. It just won't let them go Written by Sam Varghese Digitisation of office functions has sped up life for many people in metropolitan cities and removed many a headache in the process. Given that, it… Read more... Australians eat up online content in their droves, but TV still holding its own Written by Peter Dinham Almost 9 out of 10 Australian adults are now online, fuelling a growing appetite for digital content and driving significant changes across the communications sector,… Read more... FireEye seeks early adopters for Helix Written by Ray Shaw FireEye has announced its early adopter programme for FireEye Helix, an intelligence-led platform to enhance security operations and deliver security everywhere: public or private cloud,… Read more... Veritas embraces AWS – new products for the cloud Written by Ray Shaw Veritas has used the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference to announce new capabilities for its InfoScale and NetBackup to optimise app migration and simplify data… Read more... Privileged account security explained Written by Ray Shaw Governments and businesses are increasingly linking their core systems to external networks and third parties including trusted suppliers, but this approach means nothing can be… Read more... CyberArk finds Microsoft Credential Guard flawed Written by Ray Shaw Attackers with local administrator rights can harvest encrypted service credentials to achieve lateral movement and full domain compromise on Windows endpoints. Read more... Klika’s clever customer convenience: Parcel Connect partnership Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt One of Australia’s top online retailers, Klika, has continued the expansion of its omni-channel offering and enhancement of the overall customer shopping by partnering with… Read more... CMO/Oracle study reveals global brand secrets Written by Ray Shaw Australian businesses that want to operate internationally must develop and manage a brand that resonates with both global and local audiences. New research from The… Read more... Oracle helps B2B marketers generate leads Written by Ray Shaw Oracle’s new marketing automation and content marketing capabilities break down marketing silos and simplify cross-device content creation. Read more... OVO ogles outstanding ‘Best of the Best’ Money Magazine Award Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Less than a year after disrupting the Aussie mobile market with its unlimited live streaming of selected sports, OVO Mobile has won a top award. Read more... Promapp organises Sydney office with two new appointments Written by Ray Shaw Promapp has appointed Eoin Ryan as business development manager and Kieran Coughlan as implementation consultant to service its growing NSW business. Read more... Wednesday Afternoon TIBCO Jaspersoft now for Docker Written by Ray Shaw Tibco’s containerised embedded analytics solution now plays well with the industry leading containerisation platform Docker, allowing sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether… Read more... NSW adopts strategy to spur innovation Written by Sam Varghese The NSW government has set aside $10 million from its Jobs for NSW agency to increase the network of start-ups and incubators, and also earmarked… Read more... Microsoft Sydney flagship store gets Virtual Santa for Xmas Written by Ray Shaw Whether they’ve been naughty or nice this year, children and their parents are invited to Microsoft Store, Pitt Street Mall, Sydney, to sit with Mrs.… Read more... Ransomware attacks on businesses on the increase in Australia, APAC Written by Peter Dinham Businesses in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia have paid an average ransom of $11,781 to ransomware attackers, with some businesses paying a ransom… Read more... Oracle helps fund childhood cancer research Written by Ray Shaw Oracle and Western Sydney University have teamed up on visual analytics research. Read more... Netgear’s new AD router is thrice as fast as AC Written by Ray Shaw The ink is barely dry on the new Wi-Fi 802.11 AD standard, but Netgear has released its Nighthawk X10 to take advantage of the AD… Read more... New RadioApp goes live with 250 radio stations Written by Peter Dinham The radio industry has joined forces to launch a new mobile app — RadioApp — which live streams programmes from 250 radio stations in Australia… Read more... Ransomware attacker has his email hacked Written by Sam Varghese An attacker who hit the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency with a ransomware attack last week appears to have been dealt a dose of his… Read more... New coalition to fight for ‘fair-go’ for comms services in rural, regional Australia Written by Peter Dinham A new, coalition to fight for better communications services for Australians living in regional, rural and remote areas of the country has been formed by… Read more... ANZ Bank victim of new phishing attack Written by Ray Shaw ANZ, just like many other Australian banks, is suffering from a new socially engineered phishing attack aimed at its users. Phishing has become the most… Read more... HP Z2 Mini workstation for CAD and power users Written by Ray Shaw HP has released an amazingly small, Intel Xeon, NVIDIA Quadro-powered workstation designed for power users. It has AutoCAD, SOLIDWORKS, Vectorworks and 20 professional CPU/graphics-hungry applications. Read more... Web archive plans Canada mirror after Trump election Written by Sam Varghese The non-profit Internet Archive, that has been archiving the Web for the last two decades, has started seeking donations to create another mirror in Canada. Read more... Sponsored Announcements A Bumper Christmas eClub Event Celebrates 20 Years of Offis Multi-Cloud Services Sydney cloud services company Offis is celebrating its twentieth birthday in the only way it knows how: filling a room with some of the smartest… Read more... Yellowfin, La Trobe University launch partnership with analytics challenge award Australian-based global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has officially launched its industry partnership with La Trobe University with the presentation of the… Read more... The Secrets to True Innovation - Amazon Futurist HB Siegel to Visit Australia Amazon may once have been ‘just’ an online bookseller, but how should anyone describe the company today? Its ever-growing retail operation aside, Amazon has also… Read more... Which JavaScript Framework is Best for You? A JavaScript framework has become one of the preferred backbones in building a website. As it would be nigh on impossible to evaluate all of… Read more... Influential Futurist H.B. Siegel (Pixar/ILM/Amazon) Comes to Sydney H.B. Siegel’s current job title of Principal Investigator might sound rather mundane, like some kind of local school inspector. However, once you learn his employer… Read more... Analytics vendor Yellowfin to enable infographics and beautiful dashboards with 7.3 launch Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has positioned itself as the leading modern BI platform for creating code-free analytical applications, purpose-built analytic… Read more... |
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