Telstra announced it will provide community groups in Southern Queensland and Northern New South Wales with grants expected to total at least $250,000 to help support flood recovery.



Online job ads on the Seek website in February grew by 2.2% over the previous month, the online job site says, adding that this made the year-on-year rise 35.8%.

Professor Alan Duffy, an astrophysicist from Swinburne University in Melbourne, is lending his support to an ambitious national campaign to round up over 4 million old and broken mobile phones and get them recycled.

Four government agencies have formed the Digital Platform Regulators Forum to promote greater cooperation and information-sharing in the regulation of digital platforms in Australia.

Multiple world record-breaking mountaineer, Nirmal “Nims” Purja MBE has become an ambassador for Inmarsat – marking the launch of Inmarsat’s formal Ambassador Programme. As part of the partnership, Inmarsat will provide Nims with satellite connectivity solutions to keep everyone safe, secure and connected during his expeditions.

The ABC appears to be hell-bent on introducing compulsory logins for its iview service, rebutting points raised by the Australian Privacy Foundation with somewhat tired objections that do not appear to really hold up under scrutiny.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire


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