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Macquarie Telecom has another good year
Macquarie Telecom has recorded a third successive year of profit growth, with the company declaring a net profit after tax of $14.2 million, a rise of 170% year-on-year, on full-year revenue of $219.7...
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Myer, Amazon deal to sell Kindle in stores, online
Myer is now an official Amazon retailer with the US giant’s Kindle e-reader range on the department store’s shelves and its online store from today. Amazon announced that Myer had come on board selling...
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NBN Co corporate plan: no change in fibre-copper mix
NBN Co has no plans to increase the number of premises that receive fibre-to-the kerb (or curb as the company calls it) and these will not increase beyond a million as it has already specified....
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Eureka Prize awarded to Sydney Uni robotics engineer
Professor Salah Sukkarieh, an engineer from the University of Sydney, has been awarded the 2017 CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Innovation and Science. The prize, an annual award by the Australian...
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Investment in new division pays off as Crowd Mobile revenue up for 2017
Australian-listed mobile entertainment and digital media company Crowd Mobile increased net revenue by 16% to $43.9 million in FY17, the company’s second full year on the ASX. And Crowd Mobile’s...
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Bankwest running trial with wearable payment technology
West Australian bank Bankwest has begun testing wearable payment technology as it examines the way contactless payments will evolve. The bank said in a statement that over 12 weeks, each participant...
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Labor slams Turnbull over 'pricey, delayed NBN'
Labor's shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland has slammed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over what she says is a 3½-year delay in completing the rollout of the national broadband network at...
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France seeks US$715m in back-taxes from Microsoft
France has asked Microsoft to pay €600 million (US$715 million) in what it claims are back-taxes owed by the American software giant for billing local customers from Ireland. The French weekly...
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Logitech launches new wireless gaming keyboard
Logitech's gaming division has launched a high-performance wireless mechanical gaming keyboard, the G613 LIGHTSPEED. The G613 has a 1 ms report rate and Bluetooth to provide multi-device connectivity....
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Google acted on malware after thousands infected: claim
Researchers from Slovakian security firm ESET claim that nearly 70,000 Android devices were infected with malware that was used to make up a botnet named WireX before Google reacted and removed the...
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Stroke patients 'improve' with brain-computer interface
Scientists at the University of Adelaide have used a brain-computer interface to treat stroke patients and report a 36% improvement in motor function of a stroke-damaged hand. They said a...
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Android Oreo coming to Sony Xperia range
Sony Mobile has revealed the list Xperia products that will be getting Android 8.0 Oreo. One of the frustrations of being an Android owner is waiting to find out whether the newest version of the...
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Vault 7: Malware can run implants on XP, Windows 7
WikiLeaks has released documents from the CIA's Angelfire project, a five-component utility that can load and run custom implants on Windows XP or Windows 7. Angelfire's components are Solartime,...
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Skills shortage threatens success of IoT deployments: survey
Many enterprises are faced with a lack of Internet of Things skills putting at risk the success of their IoT deployments, according to a new global report from UK-based satellite communications...
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WaterGroup, Reekoh partner on water saving platform integration
Australian integrated corporate water savings company WaterGroup has sealed a multi-year deal to licence Reekoh’s IoT open integration platform for use within its range of smart metering and water...
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Gartner: Symposium/ITxpo – Gold Coast
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is ANZ’s largest gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives, taking place on the Gold Coast, Australia, 30 October – 2 November 2017. At this must-attend conference over 1,500...
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FttK the NBN: Fibre-to-the-Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fibre Connection, United Kerbs to one million Australians lucky enough to avoid FTTN or Fibre to the Node, in the latest adjustment to the Multi-Turnbull Mix. Larry David’s comedy is described across...
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AMD Ryzen 7 1700 processor – two happy months in the saddle
COMMENT My faith in the AMD processor range has been reinforced by the impressive new Ryzen series. I've nothing against Intel except their premium pricing — a bit like Telstra, I suppose — but have...
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Ecovacs robot vacuum cleaner really sucks, coming to Oz soon
Showcased at IFA 2017 in Berlin, Ecovacs Robotics is pre-empting its imminent Australian launch by launching the Deebot Ozmo 610, and Google Home enabled Ozmo 930. Oh, Ecovacs. My straight up joke when...
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Alcatel aims for affordable new Androids and kid-friendly smartwatch
A new kids smartwatch, the MT30, and new Alcatel Androids, the A7 and Idol 5S among others, have launched at IFA 2017, and are coming to Australia “in the latter stages of 2017 and early 2018.” Top...
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