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Wipro selling data centre business for US$405m to Ensono
Giant Indian IT services company Wipro has signed a definitive agreement to sell its hosted data centre services business to US-based hybrid IT services provider Ensono. The deal, valued at US405...
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Short-selling of AMD surged ahead of flaws release
A surge of short-selling of AMD shares preceded the release of information on Tuesday about 13 flaws in some of the company's processors by Israel-based CTS Labs, a report claims. Reuters said there...
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ATO warns of cryptocurrency tax scammers
The Australian Taxation Office has warned the public to beware of scammers who contact taxpayers claiming to be from the ATO and seeking repayment of tax debts through cryptocurrencies. Assistant...
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Ombudsman greenlights ACMA proposed rules for telecoms consumer protection
Ahead of the imposition of new telecommunications consumer protection rules for NBN migration, the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has revealed that residential consumers and small...
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Greg Medcraft: Bitcoin doesn’t have a future
A former ASIC chairman has predicted a grim future for Bitcoin unless the original cryptocurrency changes the way it operates. At the Australian Blockchain Conference earlier this week, Greg Medcraft,...
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TechnologyOne facilitates City of Mitcham customer services improvements
South Australia’s City of Mitcham local council has implemented an enterprise software solution from TechnologyOne as part of its shift towards an improvement in customer services. The local government...
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New rules to be introduced for handling NBN complaints
New rules to handle complaints about the NBN will take effect from June this year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has announced. The rules cover the handling of consumer complaints...
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Israeli firm was advised to use CERT to disclose AMD flaws
A company that was asked to review a series of flaws claimed to be in some AMD processors says it recommended to the firm that found the flaws — the previously unknown Israel-based CTS Labs — that it...
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Mobile video reaches new heights in popularity: report
Mobile video plays topped 60% globally for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2017 — garnering a 60.3% share of all video starts, according to new research published by Telstra subsidiary and...
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Vertiv solution used by NEXTDC for new Melbourne data centre
Data centre provider NEXTDC has selected a cooling solution from Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, for its new facility in Melbourne. Vertiv says that by installing the Liebert EFC evaporative...
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Smartpay teams up with Alipay to gain from Chinese tourism
Independent EFTPOS and payment provider Smartpay Holding has signed a deal with Chinese payment provider Alipay that will give up to 25,000 Australian and New Zealand Smartpay merchants the ability to...
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GNOME releases version 3.28 with many new features
The free software desktop project GNOME has released version 3.28, codenamed Chongqing, with a total of 25.832 changes by about 838 contributors. GNOME releases an update every six months and the...
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Google, Facebook face 3% turnover tax in EU: report
Multinational US technology companies like Google and Facebook will have to pay a 3% turnover tax in the EU, according to a draft proposal from the European Commission. Reuters reported that it had...
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‘Sunrise industries’ to fuel ASEAN regional growth, job creation: report
Next generation energy storage, autonomous systems, personal health and ageing have been cast as some of the emerging high-growth industries expected to fuel future regional growth and job creation in...
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VIDEO: Carsales' clever AutoAds can create over a trillion ads, with "no two...
A new video ad creation tool from CarSales, called AutoAds, is "the first of its type for the Australian auto category," delivering impressive-looking car ads. Carsales has released a new video ad...
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Danish firm first to suffer breach under new Australian law
Australia's first data breach since the country introduced a data breach notification law has been recorded, with the Danish shipping company Svitzer suffering a breach that affected about half of its...
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Smart Aussie startups using the cloud to make their way
Ian Gardiner is the head of global cloud host AWS' ANZ Startup Ecosystem and says "I have the coolest job in the organisation, to find and identify the next Atlassian or Xero or Netflix and support...
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NSW, Israel open grants programme for tech innovation
A grants programme delivering grants of up to $250,000 has been opened by the NSW Government under the NSW-Israel Research and Development Tech Innovation Program. Businesses can now apply for grants...
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Labor raises HFC reliability as Foxtel reported to be ditching network
The Australian Labor Party has raised doubts about the reliability of the Telstra HFC cable network after it was reported that Foxtel would not be using HFC for transmission any more, but moving to...
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Aussie Broadband opens up CVC graphs to subscribers
Internet service provider Aussie Broadband has begun showing network traffic levels on all 121 NBN points of interconnect. The company said in a statement on Sunday that this was in keeping with its...
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