Mobile Embrace launches platform in multiple new markets
Mobile commerce company Mobile Embrace has launched its cloud-based performance marketing technology platform into the Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt and Bahrain markets. In a move to strengthen its mobile...
View ArticleComms Alliance, AMTA combine on broadband speed claims
Industry associations representing the telecommunications industry, Communications Alliance and the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), have proposed the creation of an industry...
View ArticleHuawei gets ziggy with it, joins Zigbee Alliance
Huawei has joined the ZigBee Alliance for a greater IoT world with the ZigBee standard "as the cornerstone of this new era of device intelligence". The ZigBee Alliance bills itself as "a non-profit...
View ArticleNZ data allowance demands spark new broadband plan offers
New Zealand’s largest telco, Spark, has responded to the growing appetite for bigger and bigger data allowances with new offerings to the majority of its home, and many of its business broadband...
View Article4G mobile video user to boom by 2020: Huawei and Ovum ogle gargantuan growth
A new whitepaper sees "huge growth in 4G mobile video use by 2020", with the paper highlighting three key focuses for "enabling telco big video business transformation". According to the new joint...
View ArticleIt's official: Apple sends invites for iPhone 7 on 7 September
It’s lucky sevens for the next iPhone, expected to be the iPhone 7, and an expected new Apple Watch 2 with launch date on 7 September. Apple news site AppleInsider has published the news that the...
View ArticleMemo to Labor: hold your peace, the NBN debate is over
About three weeks ago, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield earned a bit of scorn in these columns after one of his media advisers sent iTWire a press release that could only be described as silly. On...
View ArticleApple's Ireland tax deal to be ruled illegal by EU
Apple is set to face a challenge in its dealings with Ireland, with the European Union's anti-trust regulator to rule soon that the company's tax deals with Dublin are in violation of the EU's rules,...
View ArticleInteresting IT stuff in Australian online store
If you are like me and like browsing to see what “goodies” are on offer I found Laser’s catalogue a source of considerable joy in locating some of the more obscure bits and pieces. While writing up the...
View ArticleANZ extends Android Pay to Mastercard customers
ANZ has extended its tie-up with Android Pay to its Mastercard customers from today. The bank said more than half a million customers would benefit from this. ANZ introduced the use of Android Pay in...
View ArticleKPMG to leverage Internet of Things market with dedicated IoT practice
Professional services firm KPMG Australia has launched a dedicated Internet of Things (IoT) practice – a first within the company’s global member network. The new Australian practice is part of KPMG’s...
View ArticleBallance farm co-op first in NZ live with SAP S/4 Hana
New Zealand farmer-owned co-operative Ballance Agri-Nutrients, is the first organisation in New Zealand to go live with the SAP S/4Hana technology platform as part of its digital transformation. Since...
View ArticleAppSense helps Deakin Uni improve desktop user experience
Deakin University in Victoria is deploying AppSense environment manager to deliver improvements to desktop user experiences on its system and help significantly reduce profile corruption problems and...
View ArticlePyrios deploys ServiceNow CSM solution for business transformation
Enterprise cloud company, ServiceNow, has been selected by New Zealand-based trans-Tasman communications technology specialist, Pyrios, to support its business and customer experience transformation....
View ArticleTelehealth could save healthcare system $3 billion, says CSIRO
Australia’s first large-scale trial of telehealth has shown that the healthcare system could save up to $3 billion a year, according to the CSIRO which trialled telehealth systems with 287 patients...
View ArticleFULL VIDEOS: 50 Best Places to Work in Australia 2016 awards night plus...
The results of the annual Best Places To Work study have been released by Great Place To Work, with IT and software companies dominating the charts. Great Place To Work (GPTW) says it "surveyed 51,937...
View ArticleSky and Space Global: new customers secured
The ‘Initial Nano-satellite Phase’, the Three Diamonds, has new customer for Sky and Space Global through Sat-Space Africa. Sky and Space Global Ltd, an ASX-listed company, is a brand new satellite...
View ArticleApple-EU stoush: Cook hints Europe may lose jobs
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has attempted to paint the company's decision to set up operations in Ireland as one that was driven by factors other than hard commercial reasons. Reacting to the EU's...
View ArticleEU stoush: Apple's Cook starts off on wrong note
Apple chief executive Tim Cook lives in a different world to the one you and I inhabit. Nothing else can account for the fact that he was recently proclaiming that the company he leads should not have...
View ArticleBitTorrent app bites macOS again
Just months after the Transmission app became the first instance of Mac ransomware it is back, this time, loaded with OSX/Keydnap and still fooling macOS gatekeeper. Security firm ESET says it analyses...
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