Online job ad volumes across Australia over a two week period in September were 80% of pre-COVID levels - the highest national job ad figure since the pandemic began having an impact in March - with job ad volumes continuing to recover in most states and territories with South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory all passing pre-COVID levels, according to rjobs board SEEK.



Google has held out a nice, juicy carrot overnight, hoping that Australia will bite and agree to the terms that it wants for the media code that is being negotiated with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

A decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to cut the price of the Mobile Terminating Access Service from 1 January 2021 from 1.7 cents per minute to 1.19 cents per minute will bring down the wholesale price of mobile voice services.

Engineers from the University of NSW are leading a research project aimed at closing a gap in speech recognition systems that they say have until now performed badly in understanding young users of technology.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has awarded $15.14 million in funding to 16 research projects to help address solar PV panel efficiency, overall cost reductions and end-of-life issues.

Telco Singtel Optus has released an application that will lessen the lag that PC gamers encounter, with Game Path as it is called claimed to reduce the lag by 30% on average.

A British report into Huawei's operations in the country has found that the company has made limited progress in fixing up issues which were reported in 2019, "making it inappropriate to change the level of assurance from last year or to make any comment on potential future levels of assurance".

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