Facebook still booking most Australian revenue in Ireland, US
Facebook has told a standing committee of the Australian Senate that it booked a vast majority of its Australian income for 2016 outside the country. The social media company was responding to...
View ArticleUsers affected by CCleaner malware now at 730,000, company claims
Senior officials from Czech cyber security company Avast claims that the number of users affected by malware spread through CCleaner, a popular application that allows Windows users to perform routine...
View ArticleIP Australia adopts Pega robotic automation
Intellectual Property Australia has adopted Pegasystems’ robotic automation as part of a move designed to improve overall customer experience by automating business processes, significantly reducing...
View ArticleCompTIA launches Australian mentoring programme
The CompTIA ANZ Channel Community has announced the launch of a mentoring initiative, with a six-month pilot to be undertaken with 50 mentors and mentees. Powered by Mentorloop, a mentoring software...
View ArticleAirTrunk expands with new Sydney data centre
Data centre specialist AirTrunk has unveiled a new facility in Western Sydney as part of its wider growth strategy for the Asia Pacific region. The company says the newly opened data centre showcases...
View ArticleRadical Systems wins Motorola NSW hackathon
Darwin-based business systems developer Radical Systems has won the 2017 Motorola Solutions public safety hackathon. Radical Systems won the 48-hour challenge with a solution designed to capture vital...
View ArticleVIDEO Interview: Alexander Slade, 21yo CEO of A Corp shares IT success secrets
Having started his IT company at 12, Alexander Slade is now 21 years young, studying at Uni while running a very successful SMB IT specialist as chief executive, with big aspirations for the future....
View ArticleSamsung becomes corporate member of OPC’s Industrial IoT edge platform
Samsung is looking to accelerate deploying an “interoperable Industrial edge platform into its manufacturing infrastructures,” relying on the OPC UA framework. OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA). It is...
View ArticleNetwork slicing pays off: Ericsson shows how
Ericsson says “network slicing has the potential to offer economic benefits in terms of higher revenues and lower operating expenditures, if operational automation and a step change in the number of...
View ArticleTelcos using few NBN Co fixed-wireless towers
Australian telecommunications companies have co-located equipment only on a few of the NBN Co's fixed wireless towers so far, the company says. While 71 sites are in the process of having equipment...
View ArticleApple, Dell and Bain likely buyers of Toshiba flash memory unit
A consortium comprising Apple, Dell Technologies and Bain Capital has reportedly agreed to acquire Toshiba's NAND flash memory manufacturing unit. But the parties had not yet come to a definitive...
View ArticleMcAfee attempting to capitalise on Kaspersky ban
American security vendor McAfee appears to be trying to capitalise on the ban imposed by the US on Kaspersky Lab, touting this on its website in a bid to promote its own software. The chief of...
View ArticleTelstra inks $90 million McDonald’s deal
Telstra has landed a $90 million network transformation deal to upgrade more than 850 McDonald’s restaurants around the country to a fibre network. Under the deal, the big telco will deliver an...
View ArticleSMBs share in $8.75 million in government grants
Government grants totalling $8.75 million will be shared by nine small- to medium-sized businesses to help them develop and test their innovative solutions to public sector challenges. The grants are...
View ArticleOkta increases focus on customer and developer engagement
Cloud-based identity-as-a-service provider Okta says it has renewed its focus on solving cloud migration impediments and beefed up its offering to developers. iTWire spoke to Scott Schwarzhoff,...
View ArticleMacquarie Telecom deploys SD-WAN for United Way
Macquarie Telecom has deployed its SD-WAN service to Australian not-for-profit United Way, with the upgrade enabling United Way to consider new digital services it can launch with a simpler and more...
View ArticleLack of cloud expertise costs enterprises $226.84m in lost revenue: study
A lack of cloud expertise and skills in delivering cloud services could be costing Australia’s large enterprises $226.84 millon in missed revenue, according to a new report commissioned by managed...
View ArticleGalaxy Studio to feature Galaxy Note8 in Fed Square for six weeks, Note8...
Melbourne’s Federation Square will be host to the Samsung Galaxy Studio experience, which for six weeks will showcase Samsung’s Note8 and more, with as much interactive magic as possible. From 25...
View ArticleICANN to update DNS security, ISPs must follow or risk outage
For the first time ever, ICANN is changing the cryptographic keys that secure DNS. ISPs must ensure their software is up-to-date or risk their customers being unable to reach any site on the Internet....
View ArticleShould OEMs continue working with Google in light of HTC deal?
Android fragmentation and Google’s “increasingly mute voice” are reasons why the latter company needs to “raise the stakes and engage with manufacturers”, according to Dr John Baptista. The Associate...
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