LG takes advantage of Samsung's plight in India
Sporting teams are always advised to take advantage of their opponents when the latter are down. LG appears to have taken that lesson to heart in India. The company sells a few million smartphones in...
View ArticleCapstone selects Microsoft Azure for medical practice management
Canberra based Capstone Systems has released a medical practice management system as a service powered by Microsoft Azure Cloud and integrated with Office 365. Tim Madden, co-founder of Capstone...
View ArticleHuawei celebrates Interbrand Best Global Brand ranking
Huawei has jumped 16 places to come in at number 72 on the Interbrand Best Global Brand ranking. The value of its “brand” has rapidly risen 18% year-on-year. iTWire reported on the top 100 this morning...
View ArticleLenovo has a Talend for Big Data integration
When you have over five million unique product IDs or items distributed over disparate databases and a variety of enterprise resources and inventory management systems - “Who you gonna call?” Lenovo...
View ArticleFrom no satellite to two: Rowland lashes Turnbull
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's words in opposition have come back to bite him after Labor used the launch of NBN Co's second Sky Muster satellite today to remind him of statements he would rather...
View ArticleD61's Melbourne cybersecurity hub to create jobs, greater focus on growing...
The CSIRO’s digital research arm, Data61, has opened a new cybersecurity and innovation hub in Melbourne in a move which will create at least 140 new jobs, including 40 jobs a year over three years for...
View ArticleVodafone vrooms in Canberra: major network boost, prepares for 5G
Canberra’s Vodafone network capacity has had some serious capital applied to give it a major boost, catering for growing data demand. Earlier this year, Vodafone noted that it "secured an additional...
View ArticleNBN: For pollies, one-upmanship is more important
On Thursday, the NBN Co launched the second of two satellites that will be used to provide broadband access in some regions of Australia where other technologies cannot be used. Sensible Australians...
View ArticleUnion questions government motives on Triple Zero tender
The federal government’s decision to put the Triple Zero emergency service out to tender signals more cost cutting in telecommunications and health services, according to the Communications Union. The...
View ArticleMobile phone, PC shipments continue decline: Gartner
Worldwide shipments of PCs, mobile phones, tablets and ultramobiles are expected to decline for a second consecutive year, according to the latest devices market report from analyst firm Gartner. A...
View ArticleSelfies not just a form of vanity, study finds
Women are the most prolific posters of selfies on Instagram, way ahead of any other group, but a new research report has knocked on the head the idea that posting selfies is just a form of vanity. The...
View ArticleBI vendor Yellowfin ramps momentum in Asia Pacific with seven additional...
Singapore and Australia, Friday 7th, October, 2016 – Yellowfin, a global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, today announced it has signed agreements with seven new Value Added...
View ArticleData loss services: Microsoft leads all the way
When you have data you want to get rid of forever, whom are you going to call? There's one sure place to go: Redmond. You are assured of losing your data when you hand it to Microsoft. The company is...
View ArticleVisionstream connects with Chorus NZ contract win
Telecommunications services provider Visionstream has secured a four-year contract with New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, to connect more Chorus’ customers to...
View ArticleVIDEO: Wacom wows with own Windows 10 MobileStudio Pro tablets
Why let Microsoft or Samsung dictate the creative Windows tablet space when the wunderkinds at Wacom can ‘re-invent’ the stylus experience and create their own top-tier tablet? Promising the ‘freedom...
View ArticleBringing DevOps to the mainframe
With the right tools, mainframe developers can be as agile and productive as those on other platforms, according to Compuware. Mainframe developers usually operate at a slower pace than those on...
View ArticleSamba project loses senior developer
The open source Samba project has lost one of its senior contributors with the death of Lars Muller on 1 October. Müller was 46 and worked as a senior software engineer for SUSE Linux in Nuremberg. In...
View ArticleSkype issues fixed, iTWire editor gets back account
Microsoft has informed iTWire editor-in-chief Stan Beer that it has fixed the problems with his Skype account. Beer said he was able to log in this morning about 6am and found that his data had been...
View ArticleYahoo! chief Mayer sued over gender bias claims
Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Mayer has been sued by a former senior executive of the company who has accused her of orchestrating a campaign to purge the organisation of male employees. The suit was...
View ArticleVerizon bid to get Yahoo! price lowered: report
Verizon is trying to get the price it pays for Yahoo! lowered by US$1 billion following the string of bad news that the latter has been hit with in recent weeks. The New York Post quoted what it...
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