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The good and not-so-good of the Melbourne Cup for SMBs
The Melbourne Cup generates millions of transactions and billions in revenue for small businesses on the morning of the race, but according to a survey from accounting software provider Xero it can be...
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Spring Carnival warning – scammers are after your money
On the eve of the Melbourne Cup, gamblers have been warned by Scamwatch that “confidence tricksters” are on the hunt for more victims. The warning comes in a year when Australians have already lost...
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WordPress creator accuses Wix of stealing code
Matt Mullenweg, the man behind the popular WordPress open source content management system, has accused the people behind the Wix mobile app of stealing code from his software. WordPress is released...
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NZ Commerce Commisssion issues draft decision on NZ$50m telcoms levy
Four telcos – Spark, Chorus, Vodafone and 2Degrees Mobile – will pay the lions’ share of the NZ$50 million Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) for 2015/16 proposed by New Zealand’s competition...
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Choosewell chooses Vocalcom platform to power customer comms channels
Health insurance comparison service Choosewell is to deploy a Vocalcom Omnichannel customer interaction platform by Quality Connex for its customer communications’ channels. The solution, powered by...
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Hostworks chimes in to deliver new portal for Vanda & Young Songwriting...
Melbourne singer/songwriter Gretta Ray has won the top prize in the 2016 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition with her song Drive. Courtesy of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)...
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Orange secures contract extension with Phillip Morris
European-based global telco telco and ICT services provider Orange Business Services has expanded its partnership with Phillip Morris International to provide the tobacco giant with global...
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UK broadband providers hit with tough new pricing rules
UK fixed line broadband providers have now been forced to comply with a new ruling that obligates them to change the way they advertise fixed-line broadband packages, and imposes new broadband pricing...
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Ciena unveils WaveLogic Ai next generation network platform
Network strategy and technology company Ciena has unveiled WaveLogic Ai, its fully programmable coherent modem that the company says delivers maximum network performance at minimum cost. Ciena says...
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Facial recognition for payments less than three years away
Within one to three years, we will be using facial recognition technology for banking. This is the belief of one of the world's leading developers of biometric applications. Dr Hitoshi Imaoka,...
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Attackers use patched exploits to hit Joomla! sites
Attacks on websites running the popular Joomla! content management system are on the rise after two critical vulnerabilities were patched last week. One flaw was patched in version 3.6.3 released on 25...
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Google's Schmidt drew up draft plan for Clinton in 2014
Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet, submitted a detailed draft to a key Clinton aide on 15 April 2014, outlining his ideas for a possible run for the presidency and...
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HOW TO WATCH the 2016 Melbourne Cup stream live online free
There’s but hours to go until the iconic race that stops the nation starts, and here’s where you can watch the spectacle live and free. There are several places and ways to watch the 2016 Melbourne Cup...
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Open Source hyper-scale cloud hardware – from Microsoft?
Open source hardware development is currently not as agile and iterative as open source software. The current process for open hardware development is to contribute designs that are production-ready....
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Symantec urges partners to tell it what they want
The acquisition of Blue Coat by Symantec creates the largest pure-play cyber security company on the planet. Interestingly there is a very small overlap between their respective products. As has been...
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Telstra dominates market as NBN wholesale access services ramp up
The operators of the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, continue to ramp up wholesale access services to the network, increasing by more than a quarter of a million over the previous quarter the...
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Microsoft to patch Windows bug disclosed by Google
Microsoft will release a patch on 8 November to patch a hitherto unknown vulnerability in Windows which was disclosed by Google staffers on Monday. The company said a hacking group was actively...
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Megaport quarterly revenues up with organic growth, acquisitions
Interconnection services provider Megaport has recorded strong growth for the first quarter of the 2016-2017 financial year, with an increase in revenues of 91% on the back of “organic growth,...
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New IoT botnet works at a rapid speed
A researcher going by the handle unixfreakjp says a new botnet aimed at Internet-of-Things devices known as Linux/IRCTelnet has already infected 3500 devices in the space of five days. As is the case...
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Shift in IT focus brings greater spend on product development, digital...
Australian organisations are spending more of their IT budgets on product development and digital transformation initiatives as IT becomes increasingly strategic at a time of “unprecedented change”,...
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