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iiNet services in Victoria hit by four-hour outage
iiNet's broadband services in Victoria ground to a halt early this morning, following the breakdown of what the company describes as a "core network device". The fault took about four hours to fix and...
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Remote NT schools digitise with Civica education suite
Five remote schools in the Catholic Education Northern Territory (CENT) have migrated to a new Web-based software system from IT outsourcing services company Civica. CENT has deployed the Civica...
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WhatsApp and Facebook to share data – even more snooping
WhatsApp is an encrypted mobile messaging service. It was purchased by Facebook in February 2014 with the implication that its users' data would never be shared. It is still saying that despite its...
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HealthKit, Coviu partner on telehealth services integration
Australian digital health platform for practitioners and patients, HealthKit, has partnered with Coviu, a CSIRO Data61 startup, to integrate its browser-based telehealth platform to give video...
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Apple profits at the expense of its Chinese workers
Apple’s main supplier Foxconn has long been a source of controversy and embarrassment to the company. Now its Shanghai-based Pegatron is in the spotlight. A new report titled “Apple making big profits...
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The fēnix rises
Just like the fabled phoenix rising the Garmin’s fēnix 3 has risen to even loftier heights as the amazingly elegant, yet practical fēnix Chronos. Yes, it’s a fitness device inside a watch that would be...
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Ford SYNC 3 makes it easier to stay connected
Ford has invested A$2 billion in research and development over the past six years to launch and upgrade a record number of products, including the rapid rollout of SYNC 3. Ford’s leading Australian...
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Is Apple guilty of Chinese worker exploitation?
Reader Scott (his nom de plume) has suggested iTWire was Apple bashing in reporting accurately the China Labour Watch report titled “Apple making big profits, but Chinese workers wages on the slide.”...
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Security education must start early
Symantec recently invited 20 students from John Warby Public School to its Security Operations Centre in Sydney to participate in a Leadership and Cyber Safety Education Program. Symantec’s Managing...
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NBN fibre diet for those can afford it
Australians who are willing to pay for it will be able to get fibre laid right up to their houses to access the NBN, according to the 2017 corporate plan released by NBN Co. Presumably, this applies to...
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SFC's Kuhn in firing line as Linus Torvalds takes aim
A few days after he mused that there had been no reason for him to blow his stack recently, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has directed a blast at the Software Freedom Conservancy and its distinguished...
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OpenSignal releases first ’Global State of Mobile Networks’ report
Following on from OpenSignal’s Global State of LTE report comes its successor, looking at both 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi network coverage on a global basis. OpenSignal’s new report can be found at Opensignal,...
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5G handsets on sale at high prices by 2020, 300M handsets by 2025
Strategy Analytics look at the expected evolution of the 5G standard and 690M connections by 2025, noting much work has yet to be done to get there. Research gurus Strategy Analytics have been...
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US telco Sprint launches even better unlimited ‘with limits’ mobile plan
There’s no truly unlimited plan for anything in the universe yet, but US telco Sprint is upping the unlimited mobile plan ante. When US mobile telcos Sprint and T-Mobile launched "unlimited" 3G/4G...
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Macquarie Telecom revenue, profit up as CFO resigns
Macquarie Telecom has reported revenue up by 5.5% and profit at $5.4 million compared to a loss of $4.3 million "for the prior corresponding period". Billing itself as "Australia’s data centre, cloud,...
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Wi-Fi stuff-up: ABC bid to sideline science reporter
The episode of the ABC's main science programme Catalyst screened on Tuesday night (23 August) on Alzheimer's disease gave no credit to reporter Dr Maryanne Demasi, despite including interviews she had...
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New version of ReactOS can mount UNIX filesystems
ReactOS, a free and open source operating system on which one can run Windows applications, has released version 0.4.2, within three months of its previous release. The developers say this is an alpha...
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75.4% of cloud apps fail data protection regulations
If you are interested in the impact of shadow IT – using consumer grade apps – on enterprise security and their readiness to comply with the pending European Union General Data Protection Regulation...
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Sharma steps up to director role at Check Point
Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has appointed Kash Sharma as director of distribution and SMB for Australia and New Zealand. "We are delighted to welcome Kash into his new role in the...
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ABC needs to ask: why the mad rush to go online?
Tonight the ABC's Four Corners will report on what it considers to be very sensational disclosures: that various break-ins into digital systems of public and private entities were allegedly done by...
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