CSA ACHIEVES ISO 27001 CERTIFICATION FOR INFORMATION SECURITY
CSA (Computer Systems Australia) has announced that it has achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification, the international standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). Meeting the extensive...
View ArticleNew tech could provide 10Gbps speeds in future, says NBN Co
NBN Co and Nokia say they have tested new fibre technology called NG-PON2 that could deliver symmetrical speeds of 10Gbps to premises that have fibre to the premises installed. The Australian company...
View ArticleMobile users switching providers more often: survey
Australia's mobile services market is becoming more competitive with 15% of subscribers switching providers in 2016, a survey by technology analyst firm Telsyte has found. And following on from this,...
View ArticleSamsung’s Galaxy S8 leads the Android pack (first look)
Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 and S8+ builds on its Galaxy foundations and adds some new features, that sets it apart from all its Android competition. At today’s media launch this writer examined both...
View ArticleIt’s all about the ‘Girl Geek’ at NAB
The National Australia Bank has partnered with Girl Geek Academy as part of a move to retain the best talent and to enhance the technical capabilities of its employees while pursuing its aim of getting...
View ArticleSTEAMpunk Girls to ‘empower’ young women: UTS
The University of Technology Sydney has developed STEAMpunk Girls, an educational programme that introduces young women aged 12 to 16 to the science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM)...
View ArticleAussie space start-up Fleet gets $5m boost for nanosatellite network
Australian space start-up Fleet has raised $5 million in a Series funding round as it prepares to build and launch a constellation of nanosatellites which it says will ultimately connect the world’s 75...
View ArticleD13 snares first Australian sale of Mesmer counter-drone solution
Counter drone technology company, Department 13, has sold its MESMER counter-drone solution to its first Australian customer. The deal sees EPE, D13’s strategic partner in the Australasian region,...
View ArticleBroadband monitoring not enough, way to go on regional comms problems
The coalition pushing for improved regional communications services says the federal government’s newly announced broadband monitoring programme doesn’t go far enough and more needs to be done to...
View ArticlePositioning technology trials for spatial industry
Geoscience Australia and the Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) are jointly investing around $400,000 on a user trial and testing of a Satellite-Based Augmentation System...
View ArticleTeachers Mutual Bank deploys Dell Boomi platform for digital transformation
Teachers Mutual Bank has deployed the Dell Boomi integration platform-as-a-service as part of its multi-year, multi-million-dollar digital transformation strategy. Under the deal with Dell Boomi, the...
View ArticleApple Pay set to dominate contactless pay market: study
Fintech analyst Juniper Research claims that Apple Pay customers will reach about 86 million this year, nearly doubling from a figure of 45 million in 2016. The company estimated that the total of...
View ArticleHow to avoid that next storage hardware refresh
By Greg Wyman, Vice President Asia Pacific, ioFabric Customers tell me repeatedly that they dread the phone call from their hardware storage vendor. Every three or four years, the call is predictable:...
View ArticleExtraHop 6.2 hits 40Gbps for packet capture
Real-time IT analytics vendor ExtraHop has announced a new version of the ExtraHop platform with a number of major enhancements. ExtraHop version 6.2 can capture packets at up to 40Gbps, which the...
View ArticleSamsung Bixby: Voice control feature on Galaxy S8 and S8+ not available in US...
It’s not just Australians and the rest of the world that will be unable to use the Bixby voice control at launch, now Samsung admits the US won’t be able to either. Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8+...
View ArticleACMA changes ID checking rules for mobile services
The telecommunications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), has revised the rules on the identity-checking requirements for prepaid mobile services. The rules have been...
View ArticleIA’s Hurley wants COAG focus on ‘bipartisan’ NBN policy
Internet Australia has again called for an end to what it calls “the politics of the NBN” and urged politicians to get behind a new bipartisan broadband policy before it is too late. And IA executive...
View ArticleSpeedcast wins systems integration contracts
Australian-listed global satellite communications and network service provider Speedcast has inked two new contracts in the energy sector to deliver systems integration projects for a leading...
View ArticleOoyala wins contract with Philippines' Blink Now
The Telstra-owned global video monetisation technology and services provider Ooyala has been contracted to power the complete video business of Philippines OTT provider Blink Now. Under the deal the...
View ArticleVodafone’s strategic move on CeBIT
Vodafone has taken up a three-year sponsorship of CeBIT Australia as part of its moves to raise awareness of its latest Internet of Things (IOT) technology. Announced as the Strategic Sponsor of CeBIT,...
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