| Today on iTWire | This Morning Microsoft launches Teams chat to challenge Slack, STAT Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Long rumoured and now launched, a new collaborative chat-based workspace is Microsoft’s addition to Office 365 for business users at a launch in New York. Read more... Vodafone adds more countries to $5 roaming offer Written by Peter Dinham Vodafone has boosted its $5 a day roaming network offer with the addition of six new destinations - Canada, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu,… Read more... Optus opens Australian $10 million cyber security centre Written by Peter Dinham Optus has opened its $10 million Advanced Security Operations Centre (ASOC) in Sydney, adding to parent company SingTel’s worldwide network of ASOC’s. Read more... Symantec Partner Engage 2016 – C-Level comments and parting words Written by Ray Shaw There was a mix of trepidation and expectation at the Partner Engage breakfast this morning, before the opening session. Trepidation over how quickly Symantec could… Read more... Tata, UNSW to collaborate on ICT research Written by Peter Dinham Global IT services giant Tata is to collaborate with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) on research projects across several sectors of the ICT… Read more... Spark NZ to move customers from ‘fault prone’ copper to fibre, wireless networks Written by Peter Dinham New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has set out on a major programme to upgrade its broadband networks across the country to move as "many as… Read more... Symantec’s chief geek urges healthy paranoia in cyberspace Written by Ray Shaw The nature of cyber-attacks has changed – today there are multiple waves of multi-faceted attacks, including highly socially engineered phishing attacks. And, by the law… Read more... Aussies lead way in global online shopping boom: Pitney Bowes Written by Peter Dinham Australian shoppers aged between 25 and 34 are leading the world in embracing online shopping, with 96% of these so-called millennials driving the online shopping… Read more... Wednesday Afternoon NEC rests IoT digital future on three pillars Written by Stan Beer AI, connectivity and security are the three key technology areas that Japanese tech giant NEC intends to target in order to capitalise on the massive… Read more... Otterbox: damn good protection for your Pixel and Pixel XL Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Google’s two new Pixel smartphones aren’t impervious to the damage caused by accidental drops, which means a protective case is needed. Naturally, Otterbox hopes you’ll… Read more... Shift in IT focus brings greater spend on product development, digital transformation: Telsyte Written by Peter Dinham Australian organisations are spending more of their IT budgets on product development and digital transformation initiatives as IT becomes increasingly strategic at a time of… Read more... New IoT botnet works at a rapid speed Written by Sam Varghese A researcher going by the handle unixfreakjp says a new botnet aimed at Internet-of-Things devices known as Linux/IRCTelnet has already infected 3500 devices in the… Read more... Megaport quarterly revenues up with organic growth, acquisitions Written by Peter Dinham Interconnection services provider Megaport has recorded strong growth for the first quarter of the 2016-2017 financial year, with an increase in revenues of 91% on… Read more... Microsoft to patch Windows bug disclosed by Google Written by Sam Varghese Microsoft will release a patch on 8 November to patch a hitherto unknown vulnerability in Windows which was disclosed by Google staffers on Monday. Read more... Telstra dominates market as NBN wholesale access services ramp up Written by Peter Dinham The operators of the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, continue to ramp up wholesale access services to the network, increasing by more than a quarter… Read more... Symantec urges partners to tell it what they want Written by Ray Shaw The acquisition of Blue Coat by Symantec creates the largest pure-play cyber security company on the planet. Interestingly there is a very small overlap between… Read more... HPE arm continues staff cuts ahead of Micro Focus merger Written by Sam Varghese The enterprise arm of the former Hewlett Packard is continuing to cut staff as it moves towards a merger of its software assets with British… Read more... Debian developer completes 20 years with project Written by Sam Varghese The Debian GNU/Linux project is 23 years old and one of its developers has just completed two decades with the community Linux organisation. Read more... Sponsored Announcements How SD-WAN segmentation cuts network complexity By Graham Schultz, Sales Director Australia and New Zealand, Silver Peak There are multiple reasons why the IT industry is so excited about software-defined wide… Read more... Simplifying Disaster Recovery in a Complex World By Nicki Pereira, CTO Zettagrid In a digital world where everyone and everything is always online, the importance of a disaster recovery (DR) plan serves… Read more... Business Intelligence vendor Yellowfin to unveil Data Preparation Module Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, is set to launch a new Data Preparation Module in a series of Webinars throughout Thursday… Read more... Sri Lanka Growing as Sourcing Destination for Australian Business Gold Coast, Australia, 26 October 2016: The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) announced today that Sri Lanka is growing rapidly as… Read more... ZETTAGRID CLOUD CONNECT REPLICATION POWERED BY VEEAM IS A FIRST FOR AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, 25 October 2016 – Zettagrid today announces the launch of Cloud Connect Replication, a disaster recovery replication solution built on the award-winning Veeam platform. Read more... Yellowfin to launch 7.3 Business Intelligence platform in global Webinar series Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, is set to launch the latest version of its BI platform, Yellowfin 7.3, in a series… Read more... |
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