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Missing: 200,000 dwellings from NBN Co's ready-to-connect category
About 200,000 homes and businesses which were classed as "ready to connect" in November 2017 by the NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, have gone missing from this...
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NEC SJC2 subsea cable will transmit data at 144Tbps
Japan's NEC Corporation and the Southeast Asia-Japan 2 consortium (SJC2) have signed an agreement for the former to build a high-performance submarine cable connecting Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia,...
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Government goes after global talent with new visa scheme
The Federal Government is set to trial a new visa scheme to attract highly skilled global talent and deliver innovation to Australia with a pilot program to be launched from 1 July. The new Global...
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Alibaba Cloud opens first data centre in Indonesia
Alibaba Cloud opened the doors at its first data centre in Indonesia last week, to meet what it says are the the growing digital transformation in the country. The cloud computing arm of the Alibaba...
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Optus offers free service for Commonwealth Games athletes
Optus will offer a free service to all athletes at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games allowing them to speak to family and friends around the world via Wi-Fi and instore tablets at its store in the...
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Advertisers deploy first robot 'employees'
The increasing use of "robots" or "chatbots" in the delivery of advertising, online engagement and social media to facilitate sales for SMEs across the country has arrived - how long will it be before...
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Scientists detect electrons outside regular orbits
An international team of scientists, including personnel from the Australian National University, has published a paper in the British journal Nature detailing the finding of electrons outside their...
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New biometric system to boost accuracy of border identity checking
A new enterprise biometric identification service to be deployed by Australia’s Department of Home Affairs in July will vastly improve Australia’s biometric storage and processing capability,...
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Early adopter Empired gets on board with Telstra, Microsoft call service
IT services provider Empired has been selected for the early adopter program for the newly launched Telstra Calling for Office 365 service. Telstra and Microsoft formally launched the service on...
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Amaysim's happy happy joy joy at top ranking in happiest customer space
It’s the "International Day of Happiness" and Amaysim is smiling for multiple reasons: not only is it the fourth largest Telco in Australia, but it is now revealed that it has the happiest telco...
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Megaport looks for $60m in funds to accelerate expansion
Interconnection services provider Megaport is to raise up $60 million to expand its capability to deliver connectivity to a broader customer base. The ASX-listed company (ASXA:MP1), founded by major...
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iiNet, Internode compensating customers for misleading NBN speed claims
Internet service providers iiNeT and Internode are compensating thousands of their customers for engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct by promoting and offering NBN plans with maximum speeds that...
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VIDEOS: HTV announces Vive Pro pre-orders at A$1199, previous Vive reduced to...
HTC's renowned HTC Vive virtual reality headset has received an upgrade to the Vive Pro, with pre-orders now possible, and the existing Vive getting at $129 price cut. HTC has announced its new HTC...
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Colt, Verizon claim world first with two-way SDN orchestration
UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology and US telecom Verizon say they have successfully showcased two-way inter carrier Software Defined Network (SDN) network orchestration for the first...
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Instagram, BigCommerce collaborate on shopping
Instagram in collaboration with Australian-founded ecommerce platform BigCommerce is making shopping available on its social network to Aussie businesses and consumers. The deal sees BigCommerce...
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Government puts up $7 million in grants for Aussie innovators
Projects with the potential to deliver safer patient care before and after surgery, and to reduce the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of commercial aircraft, are among a raft of projects to receive...
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Cirrus goes after ‘dissatisfied’ NBN customers
IT solutions provider Cirrus Communications has launched C2 Direct to offer its wireless services direct to business, aiming its solution at what it says are dissatisfied NBN customers. Cirrus claims...
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Telegram loses bid to safeguard encryption keys in Russia
The company behind encrypted messaging app Telegram has lost a bid in Russia's Supreme Court to prevent the state from gaining access to the encryption keys it uses. Judge Alla Nazarova rejected...
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AMD says some patches released for flaws, others on the way
Processor manufacturer AMD has issued its first detailed statement on the flaws which were claimed last week to be in some of its product lines by the previously unknown Israeli firm CTS Labs....
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IBM Services using Zerto solution for disaster recovery
Disaster recovery software provider Zerto has said it will help IBM Services to offer more robust disaster recovery through the provision of the replication engine behind its back-up solution. In a...
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