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Ericsson's MediaFirst TV platform selected by TELUS
With Ericsson's MediaFirst TV Platform "enabling operators to deliver seamless and personalised TV experiences across devices, underpinned by an agile development and delivery model" combined with the...
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Latest Ubuntu release pulled due to BIOS corruption bug
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has disabled downloads of its latest version, 17.10, released in October, due to reports of it corrupting the BIOS on some laptops,...
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Court rejects Vodafone bid to review mobile roaming draft decision
The Federal Court has rejected Vodafone Hutchison Australia's application to review the conduct of the competition watchdog in holding a public inquiry and making a draft decision not to declare mobile...
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ACMA lays out new rules to ensure smoother move to NBN
Telecommunications providers will next year have to adhere to a number of new rules drafted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority to improve the experience of consumers who move to the...
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Amazon's Boxing Day Sale announced, hundreds of deals promised
Looks like Amazon is keeping its biggest 2017 deals for Boxing Day, with the promise of "hundreds of deals across all categories", including 40% off select fashion and much, much more. Amazon Australia...
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Acceleprise expanding Silicon Valley accelerator business to Melbourne
Silicon Valley B2B Enterprise software-as-a-service accelerator Acceleprise is expanding its business to Melbourne in early 2018 and will be chaired by serial founder and Catapult Sports executive...
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Roads and Maritime Services initiates action to champion women in IT
The Roads and Maritime Services agency in New South Wales says it is championing women in IT, putting in place its own Women in IT action group as part of a move to address the lack of diversity in the...
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Full-scale development of 5G NR (new radio) to start as 3GPP standard completed
The long awaited first implementable and interoperable 5G New Radio specification has been turned into a standard, with all the world's major telcos, tech companies and equipment makers on board The...
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Ericsson and friends celebrate multi-band 5G NR interoperability
Major telcos and Ericsson have demonstrated a "multi-vendor interoperability connection compliant with the Non-Standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) global 3GPP standard". Ericsson and Qualcomm, in...
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Envirosuite acquires Canada’s Odotech to boost global expansion plans
Brisbane-headquartered Envirosuite has acquired Odotech, a Montreal-based environmental technology provider specialising in the monitoring and management of odours, dust and gaseous contaminants. The...
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Apple admits cutting power in old iPhones to prevent shutdowns
Facing complaints from users, Apple has admitted that the latest iteration of its iOS operating system restricts the computing power of some iPhone models in order to cut the risk of unexpected...
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Toyota claims airbag letters sent before contact
Toyota has denied that it is waiting until customers contact it before sending out letters to inform them of the status of replacement of defective airbags, telling iTWire that claims made in an...
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Labor claims govt doing 'as little as possible' to reform USO
The Australian Labor Party has criticised the Coalition Government's approach to reform of the Universal Service Obligation, pointing out that it had managed to produce only a two-page response to the...
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Executive demand in ICT gets a boost for November: report
The Australian ICT sector jobs market for executives hit a high note in November with a 35% gain, coming second only to management in gains, according to the latest executive demand index from EL...
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Telstra Ventures invests in ‘world first’ robotic digitisation company
Telstra Ventures has taken a strategic stake in California-based robotic digitisation company Ripcord which specialises in in document management. Billed by Telstra Ventures as the “world’s first”...
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Basslink dismisses Hydro Tasmania's claims on isolating cause of cable failure
Basslink chief executive Malcolm Eccles has dismissed Hydro Tasmania's claim that it had found the reason behind the Basslink cable failure in 2015, saying that the expert reports cited as proof merely...
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Malware fails to disrupt world's biggest oil company
The world's largest oil company suffered a malware intrusion in August, with a safety system coming under attack in what is said to be the first case of malicious code being used to target a system...
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Federal Court confirms that Valve misled gamers
A full bench of the Federal Court has thrown out an appeal by online video game retailer Valve Corporation against a ruling that it engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false or...
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Kernel hardening group's suit against open source advocate thrown out
A judge in San Francisco has granted a motion by noted open source advocate Bruce Perens to dismiss a defamation suit filed against him by Grsecurity, a group that supplies a patch for hardening the...
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iTWire wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
iTWire wishes all readers the most wonderful of Christmases and festive seasons, and the best and happiest New Year for 2018 possible. It's that time of the year, when a bazillion technological...
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