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Small cloud hosters and IT suppliers to go the way of the dinosaur
Adrian Di Marco, founder and executive chairman of TechnologyOne, kicked off its Evolve conference this morning with a polite warning to its more than 2200 delegates – niche, homegrown cloud players,...
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Skype issues continue to dog Microsoft
Microsoft's Skype issues have continued this week with the software giant announcing that the Web version of the application is experiencing login issues. The Web version of Skype is in beta at the...
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Microsoft cracks the code on speech recognition – as good as humans
Microsoft has “cracked the code” achieving computer speech recognition on parity with humans for conversational speech. This has long been the goal – a computer than can recognise conversational...
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Vodafone to offer NBN-based broadband by end-2017
Vodafone has finally bitten the NBN bug and announced it will offer homes and businesses a fixed broadband service before the end of 2017 to complement its mobile network. Delivering the...
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Hitachi brings broad industrial experience to IoT
Hitachi's 100 years of industrial experience coupled with more than 50 years of IT experience puts it in a good position to help customers take advantage of IoT, APAC senior vice-president and general...
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MYOB brought AccountRight onshore without missing a beat
MYOB migrated the Azure part of its AccountRight accounting system from Singapore to Australia with no interruption to the service. MYOB was one of the first companies to adopt Microsoft's Azure cloud...
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ASIC database used as 'cash cow' by governments
Successive governments have been earning plenty from the fees paid by those who want to access material from the ASIC corporate database but have not bothered to update the technology used to run the...
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WatchGuard’s secure cloud-managed Wi-Fi solution
WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud connects and protects SMBs and distributed enterprises with fully automated wireless threat prevention and enterprise-grade interactive engagement and analytics features....
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Brightstar to disrupt mobile supply chain management
The mobile phone market is among the most dynamic in the world. What’s hot today can clog shelves tomorrow – consumers can be fickle. Who better than Brightstar, one of the world’s leading mobile...
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Eaton announces trio of appointments to “power” growth in ANZ
Power management company, Eaton, has announced the appointment of three new senior executive roles to support the company’s strategic growth and new business momentum across Australia and New Zealand....
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ACMA starts discussion of spectrum re-farming for 5G
International plans for the early adoption of 3.6GHz for 5G services have led the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to bring forward public discussion of the use of this part of...
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HelloFresh uses MapR's recipe for analytics
Fresh meal delivery service HelloFresh is using MapR for analytics. HelloFresh delivers more than 7.5 million meals a month to customers in Australia, Europe and North America. The Berlin-based company...
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Incipio has the Pixel wrapped up with DualPro
Looking for a case to keep your shiny new Google Pixel, well, shiny and new? Incipio might have just the thing. The Google Pixel went on sale today, and there seems to be rather more of a buzz around...
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Nadella says trust in tech is the most pressing issue of our time
OPINION: Spoiler alert – you are going to have to trust at least one major technology provider with your innermost secrets. The question is who do you trust? Do you trust Apple (Siri), Amazon (Alexa),...
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Netgear claims 'world's fastest' for Nighthawk X10 router
802.11ad support is just part of Netgear's recipe for what is says is the world's fastest home router. Scheduled to ship in December for $799, the Netgear Nighthawk X10 AD7200 smart Wi-Fi router sports...
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Top tech firms get subsidy of US$2m per data centre job: report
Top American technology companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook are reaping subsidies of US$1.95 million per job by obtaining funds from states and localities to build data...
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Yellowfin named a Leader in fourth consecutive Nucleus Research Value Matrix...
Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has been identified as a ‘Leader’ in Nucleus Research’s 2016 Technology Value Matrix for Business Intelligence and Analytics...
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Dr Simon Poole awarded TelSoc Charles Todd Medal
Technologist and entrepreneur Dr Simon Poole has been awarded the TelSoc 2016 CharlesTodd Medal for his “outstanding” contributions to the world’s optical fibre infrastructure. The medal is awarded...
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Nutanix takes flight with Flight Centre NZ
Flight Centre New Zealand has deployed an enterprise cloud platform from hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix to help its travel experts service a growing number of New Zealand residents...
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Xref, Expr3ss! seal integration deal
Human resources technology company Xref has inked a new partnership agreement with online recruitment technology company, Expr3ss!, to combine applicant selection and employee reference checks. The two...
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