Today on iTWire | This Afternoon Government spends big on tech products: Gartner By Peter Dinham Federal, state and local governments in Australia will spend $10.8 billion on technology products this year as government chief information officers in Australia and around… Read more... KPMG, IBM team up to apply cognitive tech to professional services By Peter Dinham Management giant KPMG has partnered with IBM to further increase cognitive capabilities and application of IBM Watson cognitive computing technology to a range of its… Read more... Slow NBN will put the brakes on business By Sam Varghese Back in the early 1990s, Linux kernel developer Vojtěch Pavlík and his long-time friend Martin Mareš, both resident in the old Czechoslovakia, developed a web… Read more... The simple reasons companies lose top talent By Ray Shaw No matter how good the honeymoon, the reality of working inside even the most desirable organisations is that there is often mundane, repetitive work to… Read more... Data for good – SAS joins fight against suicide By Ray Shaw Depression, bipolar disorder, and just feeling worthless, all lead to unacceptable rates of suicide and self-harm. Big data and analytics, courtesy of SAS, are helping… Read more... Will we see Skype unified in Windows 10 August update? By Sam Varghese Will Microsoft stick to its plans to unify Skype once again when it releases its anniversary update for Windows 10 on 2 August? Read more... Corporates can now get smartphones as a service By Ray Shaw With the world moving to the subscription economy — everything as a service — corporates now have the ability to take advantage of the flexibility… Read more... Aussie Mega Mall open for business By Ray Shaw What would you say if you had 3500 shops in a shopping centre? Seasoned shoppers would slip on comfortable shoes, but virtual ones would make… Read more... With Netcomm Wireless, M2M and IIoT, the ThingWorx! By Alex Zaharov-Reutt Netcomm Wireless makes top notch M2M and IIoT devices (machine to machine and Industrial Interet of Things), and it has ‘received ThingWorx Ready compliance to… Read more... This Morning Small business less than satisfied with government support: MYOB By Peter Dinham The number of business owners dissatisfied with the level of support they receive from government is now out-numbering those who are satisfied, with the level… Read more... Now ‘HERE’ this: driverless cars will ‘see around corners’ By Alex Zaharov-Reutt Location "cloud" company HERE has announced "a significant step forward in efforts to drive a global standard for vehicle-to-cloud data – which, in turn, brings… Read more... Reckon partners with OFX on international payments service By Peter Dinham Cloud accounting software provider, Reckon, is partnering with Australian-listed global international payments company, OzForex, to allow its customers to make easier international payments. Read more... 350 million Windows 10 users, ‘anniversary update’ coming August 2 By Alex Zaharov-Reutt Microsoft’s corporate Windows and devices vice-president Yusuf Mehdi has announced 350 million Windows 10 users and a major update coming 2 August. Read more... Windows 10 upgrade: clicking the Red X will finally dismiss upgrade reminder By Alex Zaharov-Reutt Microsoft’s ‘trick’ of taking a click of the ‘red X’ for the Windows 10 upgrade will once again dismiss the upgrade instead of starting it. Read more... Phone captioning app a ‘game changer’ for deaf, blind Australians By Peter Dinham A new purpose-built mobile captioning app which turns any iPad or iPhone into an accessible phone for people who are deaf and blind or have… Read more... Nokia’s new 2016 mobile security report By Alex Zaharov-Reutt The latest section from Nokia’s 2016 Acquisition and Retention study has arrived, and it focuses on the crucially important area of security. Read more... University of Melbourne heralds ‘new age’ of high-performance computing By Peter Dinham The University of Melbourne has launched a new high-performance computing (HPC) service called Spartan, combining traditional HPC with a flexible cloud computing component. Read more... MailGuard, SXP partner on cybersecurity to expand threat protection By Peter Dinham Cloud security software as a service provider (SAAS), MailGuard, has partnered with fellow security company, Southern Cross Protection (SXP), to enhance SXP’s core offering from… Read more... Game Review: Lost Sea – plucky plunder By Mike Bantick A colourful adventure awaits as we explore the procedurally generated islands of the Lost Sea. Read more... EFA calls on Coalition, Labor to support copyright reform By Peter Dinham The non-profit digital freedoms and rights group representing Internet users, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), has joined the throng of business and industry organisations lobbying the… Read more... One keyboard to rule them all By Ray Shaw Sorry Frodo, but we don’t need many rings — sorry, keyboards — to rule them all. Windows, macOS, iOS, Chrome, and Android (and Linux et al.) will… Read more... Gaming meets the couch – couch wins By Ray Shaw Gaming and couch potatoes don’t seem congruous but with more games being played on the big screen it means a rethink of gaming accessories. Read more... Veeam appoints Peter Mckay as president and COO; promotes William Largent to CEO By Ray Shaw Supporting its global expansion into the enterprise market segment and its goal to surpass US$1 billion revenue mark in the next three years, Veeam has… Read more... Wi-Fi AC Wave 2 coming – up to 8 times faster By Ray Shaw As business and consumer Wi-Fi becomes ubiquitous, the need for more efficient multi-antenna and multi-user solutions becomes a necessity, especially with increased demand for guest… Read more... Evernote kneecaps free accounts By Stephen Withers Information management service Evernote is severely restricting its free tier and substantially increasing subscription fees. Read more... Telstra to invest $250m to improve network By Sam Varghese Telstra plans to invest $250 million to make its network more resilient and to improve performance, the company's chief executive officer Andrew Penn said today. Read more... Sponsored Announcements DataCore Parallel Server Rockets Past All Competitors, Setting the New World Record for Storage Performance Measured Results are Faster than the Previous Top Two Leaders Combined, yet Costs Only a Fraction of Their Price in Head-to-head Comparisons Validated by the… Read more... DataCore Up-scales Its Record-Breaking Hyper-converged Performance with Multi-node Highly Available Server SAN Achieving the Fastest Response Time and Best Price-Performance for a Highly Available Software-Defined Hyper-converged Solution, DataCore Proves Its SANsymphony™ Parallel I/O Software on Off-the-Shelf Hardware… Read more... Acresta launches Acresta Digital to offer Digital Experience solutions Enterprise solutions provider Acresta has announced that it has acquired Interactive First, a provider of social media and digital engagement solutions. The newly established Acresta… Read more... Volpara Solutions (ASX:VHT) integrates Yellowfin Business Intelligence into its Cloud-Based Analytic Melbourne-based global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has announced that its platform has been integrated into Volpara Solutions’ world-first cloud-based analytics product,… Read more... Leading Australian Technology Law Firm Arnotts Technology Lawyers Releases DocuStream Platform Arnotts Technology Lawyers has released DocuStream - an online platform that is revolutionising the way that Australian technology and telecommunications organisations get their legal documents… Read more... Fundamental shift set to shake the WAN solutions market By John Vincenzo, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Silver Peak Arguably the most influential documents in IT are the Magic Quadrants from Gartner.… Read more... |
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