What's new in Office 365 this week?
This week's Office 365 announcements include enhanced sharing UIs across OneDrive and SharePoint, as well as unique mailNicknames in Office 365 groups. The sharing experience in OneDrive and SharePoint...
View ArticleVIDEOS: Hisense 2017 Series 8 and 9 models now in Australian stores
After announcing its new Series 8 and 9 ULED 4K TVs at the Australian F1 Grand Prix in late March, Hisense’s newest flagship models have now arrived in stores at last. iTWire last wrote about the new...
View ArticleVIDEO: iPad photo editing app, Affinity Photo, gets update and lower price point
Affinity Photo, the photo editing app for iPad and iPad Pro, unveiled during this year’s WWDC keynote, has received a new update and a lower price. The first fully-featured, truly professional photo...
View ArticleVIDEO: A smartphone storage solution that has success in the bag? Funded!
Bagby, the first “sleeping bag” for your phone, to overcome phone addiction, created especially for couples, has reached its $12,000 target with hours to spare. According to Bagby's creators on...
View ArticleNetComm and Openreach demonstrate ‘world-first’ reverse powered Gfast DPU
Gigabit speeds over FttDP based on Gfast using a reversed power fed Gfast DPU? NetComm and Openreach say they’ve achieved it in a world first. NetComm Wireless and BT Group-owned Openreach successfully...
View Article‘Digital Stationery Consortium’ invites devs and innovators with free...
Hoping to fuel innovation in digital penmanship with a free one-year membership for start-ups and nonprofits in the digital ink-enabled space, this ecosystem clearly hopes to write it own ticket to...
View ArticleFour firms join hands to build mobile tower in Cadia
A new mobile tower is planned for the Cadia district in NSW with the funds to come from Optus, Newcrest Mining's Cadia Valley Operations, Infigen Energy and Huawei. The area has no dedicated mobile...
View ArticlePine Gap data used to target US' enemies: reports
Data hoovered up by the spy base at Pine Gap in Alice Springs is being used to target enemies of the US, reports based on leaked information from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden claim. The...
View ArticleUK spies knew Hutchins likely to be arrested: report
British spy agency GCHQ was fully aware that US authorities were investigating security researcher Marcus Hutchins at the time when he went to the US to attend a security conference. A report in The...
View ArticleGoogle offers olive branch to online publishers
Under fire from publishers the world over for hogging online advertising revenue along with Facebook, Google says it is working on a way to help sell subscriptions for online news sites. Facebook has...
View ArticleACCC toughens up on retailer advertised NBN speed claims
The competition watchdog, the ACCC, has moved to clarify for consumers the confusing issue of the speed of broadband services over the national broadband network they are actually buying, with the...
View Article‘World’s largest’ open source OpenStack cloud summit coming to Sydney this...
With thousands of delegates from over 50 countries coming to the OpenStack Summit 6-8 November 2017, the “future of open source cloud computing” will be “mapped” alongside talk of “multi-cloud...
View ArticleOfficial Star Wars Battlefront II Starfighter Assault trailer blasts into view
Looking almost better than any of the movies, the latest official Star Wars Battlefront II trailer has hit the inter-webs. This one focuses on the types of craft players will be able to pilot in the...
View ArticleACCAN welcomes ACCC’S broadband advertising guidance
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network has welcomed the ACCC’s guidance to retail service providers (RSPs) and says it “should help clear up the consumer confusion around broadband...
View ArticleReview – Seagate IronWolf Pro 10Tb
The perfect NAS drive has arrived. Reliability, speed, and capacity are all combined in Seagate's IronWolf Pro. Despite its fairly regular and unassuming packaging and typical 3.5" form factor, this...
View ArticleFamily violence victims to get leniency in telco bill payment
A change to the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code to improve safeguards for victims of domestic or family violence have been approved by the Australian Communications and Media Authority....
View ArticleComms Alliance blows hot and cold on ACCC broadband speed guidelines
The Communications Alliance has expressed some reservations about the competition watchdog's announcement of six principles of best practice in advertising broadband speeds. In a statement, CA chief...
View ArticleACCC warns consumers not to fall for NBN scams
Scammers who pretend to be from the NBN Co are duping people out of money, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned. The competition watchdog said its Scamwatch site had received...
View ArticleCollingwood turns to Pure for player data storage
AFL club Collingwood is using a Pure Storage system for its player analytics. Collingwood's FlashArray//M is used to store on-field data provided by Champion Data including kicks, marks, handballs, and...
View ArticleNew cryptocurrency miner malware infects Windows systems
Researchers at security firm Trend Micro say they have found a new cryptocurrency miner that operates as fileless malware, attacking Windows systems by using the EternalBlue exploit that powered the...
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