In what must have been music to Bill Morrow’s ears, Deutsche Telekom's CTO, speaking at a broadband gabfest in Sydney, stated DT's vision in 2012 was fibre for all by 2018, but the reality since that time has meant a lot of FTTN.

eftpos payments are now available on Android Pay, with ANZ and Cuscal being "the first Australian financial institutions to make the service available to eftpos-only cardholders."

Launched in October 2016, Facebook Workplace is "certainly disrupting some of the more traditional methods of communication and collaborating" but GlobalData believes Facebook can do better.

The Australian government has announced that Darwin will receive $5 million for a project to install CCTV cameras, smart street lighting and a public Wi-Fi system, and six projects in Western Australia were announced totalling $6 million under the Smart Cities and Suburbs Programme.

NBN Co's Global Broadband Futures conference concluded yesterday with virtually every speaker telling a tale of mixed broadband technologies on the road to full fibre, our man was there and took videos of the whole event.

There has been a call for a new Australian cyber military industrial strategy, independent of the United States, so that Australia can be prepared for major war - well that’s comforting to know.

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