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Acquia Stacks to aid in multi-site management
Boston-based open source company Acquia has released software that can be used to manage multiple websites in the cloud. Acquia Cloud Site Factory Stacks is designed to cater to multiple development...
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Nine acquires stake in automotive website CarAdvice
Nine Entertainment has finalised a deal to acquire the automotive news website CarAdvice. The media company, operator of the Nine television network, has taken a majority stake in the business with an...
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Optus shines the light on Kaldor artworks
Optus has partnered with Kaldor Public Art Projects to build a new mobile app it says will enhance the visitor experience at the project’s exhibition in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden. The free app,...
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Radio industry campaigns for consumers to go digital
The commercial radio industry has launched a new marketing campaign to encourage Australians to upgrade their old radio sets to a new DAB+ digital radio. Commercial Radio Australia chief executive...
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Silver Peak appoints Schultz to head ANZ sales
Broadband and hybrid wide area networks (WANs) company, Silver Peak, has appointed 20-year industry veteran Graham Schultz as sales director for Australia and New Zealand. Schultz previously worked in...
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Learn Swift programming on iPad with Swift Playgrouns
Apple’s new iPad app, Swift Playgrounds, to make learning to code ‘easy and fun for everyone’ with the Swift programming language is now available to download, free. Apple says its new Swift...
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iOS 10 UpdateGate averted, here’s what to do if affected
For about an hour after iOS 10 was made available, some users reported their phones being bricked, but the issue has now been solved. If you want to update your compatible iOS device to Apple’s latest...
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Vividwireless powers The Happiness Movement
A new initiative powered by Australian wireless ISP Vividwireless dubbed "The Happiness Movement" launches to highlight Australia’s goodwill via charities and not-for-profit organisations with $10,000...
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Domino’s Pizza launches ‘zero click’ ordering
Who needs to click when you can order your pizza click-free and within 10 seconds? If only delivery was that fast! Although Domino’s Pizza in Australia has made great strides in dramatically improving...
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Gmail hit by global outage
A global Gmail outage that began at 1.16am AEST this morning has affected millions of users across the world. Nine hours later, at 10.45am AEST, the company was still claiming that the service had been...
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Programming error costs Commonwealth Bank more than $2m
A programming error has cost the Commonwealth Bank $180,000 in fines over breaches of responsible lending laws and a writeoff of $2.5 million in overdraft balances. The error came to light through an...
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Customers still not happy with contact centres
Customers are increasingly willing to walk away from a supplier if they experience bad service, according to a new survey. A survey by analyst firm Ovum (backed by LogMeIn, which provides the BoldChat...
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Census 2016: online form submission misses target
A forecast by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that this year's census would see nearly two-thirds of households use the online form for data submission is proving to be wildly off the mark. Chief...
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Nokia push for adopting LTE-based public safety tech
Nokia has formed an alliance with other mobile operators, public authorities and first responders to standardise the use of LTE for public safety. Among the carriers who have joined the Mission...
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Optus/Singtel secure ANZ Bank multi-year contract extension
Optus and parent company Singtel have inked a multi-year deal extending a major telecommunication and managed services agreement with the ANZ bank until 2020. The strategic partnership between Optus...
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TikForce and WorkPac tick off on integration deal
Australian regulation technology digital identification and verification firm TikForce has done a deal with labour hire and recruitment company WorkPac to integrate its technology into the recruitment...
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Empired on the road with RAA South Australia contract
IT services provider Empired is to build a new digital platform for the Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA) as the company pursues a major digital transformation strategy. Empired...
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LAUNCH VIDEO: iPhone 7 queue and launch in Sydney Australia
The iPhone 7 has launched in Australia at last, and while there were no 7 Plus models in stores, buyers were still keen for Apple’s latest and greatest. Once a year, iPhone buyers who missed out on...
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How to ‘get connected’ broadband resource launched by ACCAN
Consumers struggling to get a broadband connection while they wait for the NBN to be available in their area can now turn to the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) for help....
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Researcher goes one better than FBI with iPhone 5c
A lone researcher at the University of Cambridge has done what the FBI said was impossible: he has mirrored the NAND flash memory in an iPhone 5c and managed to brute force the passcode of the device....
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