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World's biggest solar, battery storage project for SA
The Lyon Group will build the world's biggest solar and battery storage project in South Australia, with operations to commence by the end of the year. Lyon partner David Green said in a statement that...
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Data loss 'can occur when least expected'
The possibility of data loss in Australia is heightened by the unpredictable climate that often brings extensive flooding, heat waves and bushfires, a top executive of a data protection and information...
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SMEs divided over impact of looming Amazon Aussie market entry
Amazon’s entry into the Australian market, mooted for sometime later this year, or next year, has Australia’s small business owners in a spin and nervous about the effect the ecommerce giant — or other...
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Twitter removes usernames from tweet count
Twitter has decided not to count usernames towards the 140-character limit for tweets when a reply is sent to a single user or a group. This has been done so users could use all the 140 characters for...
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Veritas executive asks firms to stop digital hoarding
A senior data management executive has advised businesses to stop being "digital hoarders" and delete data that they no longer need. Louis Tague, ANZ managing director for Veritas, said as the volume...
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Private firm patches flaw in Microsoft's out-of-support IIS 6.0
A company, that has in the past issued patches for Windows bugs well before Microsoft, says it has issued a fix for a vulnerability in Internet Information Server 6.0, Microsoft's Web server software....
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Australian Govt joins boycott of YouTube ads
The Australian Government has joined the boycott of ads on Google's YouTube online video channel. The boycott first began in the UK some three weeks ago following a report in The Times that ads for the...
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Vault 7: WikiLeaks releases third tranche of CIA files
WikiLeaks has released a third tranche of documents from Vault 7, its CIA document dump, with 676 source code files for the organisation's Marble Framework being released overnight. In a statement,...
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Samsung Galaxy S8 facial recognition bypassed with photo
One of the much-heralded security features on the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, facial recognition, can be bypassed by using a photo or the face of a sleeping person, reports say. An industry source in...
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US drops child porn case to avoid revealing classified material
The US government has dropped two child pornography cases against a man rather than reveal material available on WikiLeaks, which is still classified, in court. David Tippens was suspected of...
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Canadian firm claims world's most powerful laptop
Canadian computer company Eurocom has launched what it claims is the most powerful laptop ever created: a 19.1-inch device that supports dual AMD Ryzen 7 processors. The laptop, dubbed the EUROCOM...
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Profits flat as Huawei hits US$75 billion in 2016 revenues
Chinese telcommunications giant Huawei increased revenue by 32% to US$75.1 billion to record net profits of US$5.3 billion, up by just 0.4%, for 2016 as the company continued to invest in further...
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Nine network breaches rules on gambling ads on kids TV
The nine network has become the first television network to breach the rules forbidding the broadcast of gambling advertisements on children’s TV programmes. The network broadcast six ads on its 9Go...
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Deakin Uni, Montage Talent collaborate on student job interview training
Deakin University is claiming an Australian-first with its students and graduates to receive specialist video job interview training through a partnership between the university and global specialist...
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Declining confidence in Aussie business, industry innovation
There has been a marked decline in the proportion of Australian executives believing that their workplace environment allows innovation to flourish, according to a newly published study. The latest...
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ANZ to run trial using voice for mobile banking
The ANZ bank will run a trial using voice biometrics to transfer sums of money more than $1000 using its mobile apps. The trial will involve staff and select customers using the Grow by ANZ mobile app,...
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Norwood boosts Corona sales with CommSys deal
Telecommunications services provider Norwood Systems has inked an agreement with cloud services provider CommSys to deliver communications services using its Corona global trunk services platform....
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STATISTICS ARE SASSY
“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics,” according to Benjamin Disraeli, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1874 to 1880. But if we fast forward to 2017 we see the opposite - statistics...
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Singireddy manages MNF's software team
MNF Group has appointed Monica Singireddy as software team manager within its platforms and networks division. "MNF Group puts technical innovation at the centre of everything we do. Our commitment to...
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Free restaurant vouchers, merchant offers a lure away from peak-hour commute
Australians could be enticed to avoid travelling on packed and congested public transport during peak times with offers of incentives including rewards like restaurant vouchers and relevant merchant...
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