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ACCC seeks feedback on proposed mobile roaming regulation
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released a discussion paper on wholesale domestic roaming services as it considers whether regulation of mobile roaming in the Australian market...
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Apple sales, profits fall for first time since 2001
Falling iPhone sales have resulted in Apple recording its first drop in sales and profits since 2001. The company reported overnight that it had revenue of US$215.6 billion for the year to 24...
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Google Fibre project scaled back
Google's parent company Alphabet has scaled back its Google Fibre project, with about 9% of the staff of the Access unit that includes the Fibre project to lose their jobs. The unit has about 1500...
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Promapp fuels growth at Pacific Petroleum
Pacific Petroleum has deployed Promapp’s cloud-based business process mapping to overcome its “ad-hoc” approach to managing business processes, where critical process information had previously been...
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With MYOB, forced upgrades appear to be a habit
Australian accounting software provider MYOB appears to have a habit of pushing upgrades on its customers and giving them no way out. As iTWire reported on Tuesday, MYOB has demanded that its customers...
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CrowdStrike warns of malware-free attacks
If you're only looking for malware, how will you spot an attack that doesn't use it? Security company CrowdStrike established a local presence earlier this year, and "we've had a phenomenal start in...
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NZ government extending broadband network to alleviate rural blackspots
The New Zealand government is looking to extend the country’s broadband network to rural areas where blackspots impede mobile phone and broadband coverage. The government has released a Request for...
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The pros at prospering Prospa preach $200m milestone
Prospa has proffered up the company’s prosperous ride to prosperity with a preposterously good $200 million loan origination milestone. One of Australia’s top fintech companies, Prospa, has announced...
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With companies, big is always not better, says ACCC head
The head of Australia's competition watchdog has warned against blindly accepting the conventional wisdom that concentration of industries will be of benefit to a country, but not advocated any...
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VIDEO: The quantum clone light wars for secure comms have begun
Not quite as epic as a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is the still amazing news that "near perfect" light cloning could revolutionise ultra secure quantum communications. Physicists at the...
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Pauline Hanson wants Fifield backing for Norfolk Island fibre link
Pauline Hanson, now a member of the Senate’s Joint Standing Committee for the National Broadband Network, has written to Communications Minister Mitch Fifield seeking his support for a 90km fibre optic...
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Sri Lanka Growing as Sourcing Destination for Australian Business
Gold Coast, Australia, 26 October 2016: The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) announced today that Sri Lanka is growing rapidly as a sourcing destination for small to...
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Twitter to shut down Vine video service
Twitter will shutter its Vine video service in the coming months, the company announced in a blog post overnight. No mention was made of this in the announcement of its quarterly results. The company...
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Obama urged to do more to prevent cyberattacks
The Mozilla Foundation has urged the White House to put in place bug bounties for those who find vulnerabilities in Internet-connected devices, in order that attacks of the sort that hit domain name...
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SMEs should consider cyber insurance safety net
Cyber-attacks, hacks, breaches, data loss, DDoS, ransomware and more are a fact of life, but so far it seems only the big end of town, not SMEs, receive the publicity. It is a case of when, not if, the...
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Oracle to appeal 'fair use' verdict in Google case
Oracle has followed up words with actions, filing papers on Wednesday US time to appeal the fair use jury verdict which went Google's way in May, over the latter's use of 37 Java APIs in Android. The...
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Cyber insurance is the next frontier
New figures from Norton by Symantec state that just 19% of small businesses in Australia and 9% in New Zealand are looking to purchase cyber cover in 2017. A cyberattack is just as likely to affect the...
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Content is king as Optus launches sports channel for summer of cricket
Optus has launched a 24/7 sports channel dedicated to cricket over the summer months as part of an exclusive content partnership with Cricket Australia. The new channel is available until 28 February...
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Note7 debacle hits Samsung 3Q profits
Samsung Electronics has taken a battering from the recall and subsequent cessation of production of its Galaxy Note7 device and this is reflected in its results for the third quarter. The company's net...
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Spark NZ in a spin with new online music deal with The Spinoff
New Zealand’s largest telco Spark is partnering with rapidly growing online magazine The Spinoff to produce a new music section on Spinoff’s website. Under the partnership, the new music section, which...
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