| Today on iTWire | This Afternoon Datacom snares IT services contract with Toyota Written by Peter Dinham New Zealand-based, trans-Tasman IT services provider Datacom has won a three-year contract to supply IT infrastructure and support services to Toyota Australia. Read more... NetCube slapped with ACMA compliance order over complaints handling issues Written by Peter Dinham A failure to deal with customer complaints promptly has resulted in Internet service provider NetCube being ordered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)… Read more... Banks v Apple: a fight the locals cannot win Written by Sam Varghese Four Australian banks, that have more or less lost the fight to take on Apple as a cartel for negotiations to allow their card holders… Read more... Optus boosts entertainment packages with pre-Xmas giving spree Written by Peter Dinham Optus has upped the ante in the battle by telcos for the hearts and minds of mobile phone and broadband users, giving mobile and fixed… Read more... Canonical to sue cloud provider over Ubuntu images Written by Sam Varghese Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has said it plans to sue an European cloud provider for distributing unofficial images of its cloud… Read more... Microsoft pays out again over forced W10 upgrade Written by Sam Varghese An IT worker has been paid US$650 by Microsoft after he threatened to sue the company following a forced upgrade to his grandfather's computer that… Read more... STEM needs all the help it can get Written by Ray Shaw STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics — is the future of all knowledge-based economies. Part of the Australian government’s plan for innovation is to… Read more... China tightens tech laws – must be secure and controllable Written by Ray Shaw China passed a national security law that calls for technology that supports crucial sectors of the economy and government to be "secure and controllable." Industry… Read more... This Morning Netflix hits 5.75 million Aussie subscribers, as take-up challenges Foxtel Written by Peter Dinham Netflix has hit a high of 5.75 million subscribers to its video on demand service, despite the latest research revealing that over four in ten… Read more... ‘Dump’ copper-based FTTN rollout, says IA as one million plus connections readied for service Written by Peter Dinham Internet Australia chief Laurie Patton has again called for NBN Co, the builders of the National Broadband Network, to dump its copper-based (FttN) rollout in… Read more... New NBN milestone with one million-plus premises ready for FttN connection Written by Peter Dinham More than one million premises are now ready for connection to the National Broadband Network via the fibre-to-the-node (FttN) network as NBN Co speeds up… Read more... Surge in foreign IT workers entering Australia, Aussies struggle to find jobs Written by Peter Dinham Foreign IT workers are being imported into Australia in their thousands and paid significantly lower wages than qualified Australian IT professionals, many of whom often… Read more... 7 VIDEOS: CA World 2016 wrap – video interviews, keynotes, executive and customer Q&As, show floor tour and more Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Last month, CA held its annual CA World conference in Las Vegas. Here are some great video interviews, a show floor tour and more from… Read more... What excited me in 2016 – Bluetooth, noise-cancelling headphones Written by Ray Shaw OPINION Bluetooth, noise-cancelling headphones are a must for any frequent traveller. While there are dozens of brands, four very different ones caught my eye. Read more... What excited me in 2016 – flagship Wi-Fi routers Written by Ray Shaw OPINION It seems this time last year we were extolling the virtues of AC 2600 dual band routers and in 12 short months, we are… Read more... What excited me in 2016 – flagship smartphones Written by Ray Shaw OPINION It is that time of year when I reflect on what excited me most about devices I reviewed during the year. I reviewed smartphones… Read more... The Surface Dial is much more than a hockey puck Written by Ray Shaw Microsoft has released its take on the all-in-one desktop — the Surface Studio — and also added in a left field item called a Surface… Read more... Microsoft Surface Studio Teardown Written by Ray Shaw It is actually Microsoft’s first desktop PC – and its take is to put a very large 28” tablet mounted on an amazing zero-gravity stand,… Read more... Sponsored Announcements A Bumper Christmas eClub Event Celebrates 20 Years of Offis Multi-Cloud Services Sydney cloud services company Offis is celebrating its twentieth birthday in the only way it knows how: filling a room with some of the smartest… Read more... Yellowfin, La Trobe University launch partnership with analytics challenge award Australian-based global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has officially launched its industry partnership with La Trobe University with the presentation of the… Read more... The Secrets to True Innovation - Amazon Futurist HB Siegel to Visit Australia Amazon may once have been ‘just’ an online bookseller, but how should anyone describe the company today? Its ever-growing retail operation aside, Amazon has also… Read more... Which JavaScript Framework is Best for You? A JavaScript framework has become one of the preferred backbones in building a website. As it would be nigh on impossible to evaluate all of… Read more... Influential Futurist H.B. Siegel (Pixar/ILM/Amazon) Comes to Sydney H.B. Siegel’s current job title of Principal Investigator might sound rather mundane, like some kind of local school inspector. However, once you learn his employer… Read more... Analytics vendor Yellowfin to enable infographics and beautiful dashboards with 7.3 launch Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has positioned itself as the leading modern BI platform for creating code-free analytical applications, purpose-built analytic… Read more... |
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