| Today on iTWire | This Morning India cuts some ties with Gates Foundation Written by Doron Beer The Indian government has announced a partial cutting of ties with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and has increased funds to its own immunisation… Read more... NetComm receives $28m first order from NBN Co Written by Sam Varghese NBN Co, the company building Australia's national broadband network, has placed a $28 million order with NetComm Wireless for the supply of distribution point units. Read more... Gigabit connections: MyRepublic says NBN chief is wrong Written by Sam Varghese Internet service provider MyRepublic has dismissed as "bullshit" a statement by NBN Co Chief executive Bill Morrow that Australians do not want super-fast broadband and… Read more... Illegal streamers dodge Foxtel legal action over live-fight ‘piracy’ Written by Peter Dinham Foxtel has chosen not to take legal action against two men who illegally streamed the Danny Green v Anthony Mundine fight live on Facebook on… Read more... NEC secures three-year contract with Telco Authority in NSW Written by Peter Dinham Global ICT services giant NEC has been awarded a three-year contract to deliver wireless backhaul technology, professional services, network management systems and ongoing support to… Read more... Set politics aside and build NBN, urges IA's Patton Written by Sam Varghese Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition leader Bill Shorten should put politics aside and agree on fibre-to-the-driveway (FttDP) technology for the national broadband network, Internet… Read more... Australia's NBN has become a national shame Written by Sam Varghese When will Australia's chances of getting a decent broadband — as opposed to fraudband — network improve? When the government's neoliberal thinking that every public… Read more... Oracle kicks off next stanza in fight against Google Written by Sam Varghese Oracle has begun the next chapter of its legal battle with Google over Android, filing an appeal brief in the US Court of Appeals for… Read more... HP’s Z34c – a whole lot of ultra-wide monitor (review) Written by Ray Shaw Ever fancied a larger monitor? Need more screen real estate for that big spreadsheet? Well, HP’s Z34c is the “ludicrous mode” for monitors. Read more... We are heading into very un-private EULA, OTA time Written by Ray Shaw In the early 1980s, when I first bought a computer, I owned DOS, later Windows, and then Office. Then the lawyers got involved and now… Read more... Friday Afternoon Google announces Android Wear 2.0 Written by Ray Shaw Android Wear is to wearables like smartwatches, as Android is to smartphones – it underpins both form and functionality. Google has announced Android Wear 2.0,… Read more... Start-ups accepted into latest muru-D cohort Written by Peter Dinham Telstra’s start-up accelerator programme muru-D has accepted new start-ups into its fourth Sydney cohort, including Nano satellites that monitor crop health, cameras that map the… Read more... Confusion over broadband speeds rife among consumers Written by Peter Dinham Australian consumers believe they are getting a raw deal from their Internet service providers over the speed of their broadband services, with most of them… Read more... Galaxy S8 to have smaller battery than Note7: report Written by Sam Varghese The Samsung Galaxy S8 will have a smaller capacity battery than the ill-fated Note7 which literally went down in flames. Read more... Toshiba expands battery recall Written by Ray Shaw Toshiba Australia has announced an extension of its global voluntary recall to replace the lithium-ion battery packs for some of its notebooks sold between June… Read more... Microsoft, Google and Amazon gave cash for Trump inauguration Written by Sam Varghese Big US technology companies Amazon, Google and Microsoft donated both cash and services to the ceremonies around the swearing-in of US President Donald Trump on… Read more... US may demand social media details from some Muslims Written by Sam Varghese Citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, who were subject to US travel bans last month, may have to provide their social media passwords if they wish… Read more... openSUSE news website compromised Written by Sam Varghese One of the websites belonging to the openSUSE project, a SUSE Linux-supported organisation that develops a community Linux distribution, was defaced earlier this week. Read more... IoT devices set to cross 8b mark this year: Gartner Written by Doron Beer New research forecasts that 8.4 billion connected devices will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31% from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by… Read more... New undersea cable to deliver ‘highest capacity’ Internet between US and Australia Written by Peter Dinham Surveying of the seafloor between the Sydney beachside suburb of Clovelly to Los Angeles is about to get underway in preparation for laying of the… Read more... Tyro, Afterpay team up on ‘buy now pay later’ deal for consumers Written by Peter Dinham Payments provider Tyro is partnering with digital payment solutions company Afterpay in a deal which will see Afterpay’s deferred payment plans spread across thousands of… Read more... Inmarsat, Actility partner to deliver global IoT network Written by Peter Dinham Global mobile satellite communications services company Inmarsat has partnered with Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWA) provider Actility to develop what it claims is the… Read more... MyNetFone lures SMBs with communications ‘health check’ Written by Peter Dinham In the increasingly competitive telecommunications and broader communications market, VoIP provider MyNetFone is enticing customers with the offer to SMBs of a free service to… Read more... Sponsored Announcements ‘Realising business value’ from IT a key for leading IT executive Sean Elwick, St Vincent's Health group IT Director of Transformation, is a man who, by his own admission, is passionate about realising business value from… Read more... Next Telecom wins Australian Gold Customer Service Award again Sydney Monday 6th February 2017: Next Telecom Pty Ltd, one of Australia’s premier (IP) Voice and Data service providers for businesses, today announced it has… Read more... BizData announces natural language collaboration with Narrative Science At BizData, we pride ourselves in selecting only the most innovative technology vendors that will help our customers unlock the total value of Power BI.… Read more... Border security, key IT industry issues under the microscope at the 7th annual CIO Leaders Australian Summit 2017 The international perspective, and the issue of border security for countries like Australia, will be front and centre at this year’s 7th annual CIO Leaders… Read more... Cyber security takes centre stage at the CISO Leaders Summit 2017 in Melbourne Australia’s private and government sectors, like their counterparts around the world, are under constant threat from cyber security attacks. Read more... Yellowfin Connectors enable businesses to view and share data from third-party applications to make better data-driven decisions Easy plug-In connectors end data silos and eliminate the need to log-in and query multiple applications Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor Yellowfin,… Read more... |
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