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OutSystems high-performance low-code development platform has been chosen as a key part of the ‘JP2060 Phase 4’ contract awarded to Leidos Australia by the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

Cybersecurity solutions company Fortinet has appointed Nicole Quinn to the newly-created role of head of government relations – APAC.

Originally meant to be held in February but postponed to May 11 and 12 due to COVID, the Tech In Gov conference in Canberra has clearly been a success, with a packed expo area during conference breaks, and tons of top companies in attendance.

Coles, one of Australia's two big supermarket chains, says it will offer delivery of some 250 grocery items by drone in some suburbs of Canberra.

Well known and popular comparison site Finder is giving away an incredible $200,000 in Bitcoin to Australians who download the free Finder app and join the Bitcoin Drop Party, but sadly, those in the ACT are unable to join the party this time around.

The Smart Energy Council has announced that ActewAGL’s hydrogen refuelling station in Canberra has been certified with renewable green hydrogen produced from 100 percent renewable energy and with zero carbon emissions.

The ACT government will trial Frontline Data Systems’ AI technology as part of its annual road resurfacing program in Canberra.

Despite all the brouhaha over the alleged threat posed by China, the Federal Government does not seem overly concerned when it comes to cloud hosting of its sensitive data. Else, how does one account for the fact that the Digital Transformation Agency has given Amazon Web Services, a company that has links to a Chinese-owned data centre, the green light for hosting government data?

Another Australian cloud provider, this time the secure cloud specialist Sliced Tech, has passed into foreign hands with its sale to UK-headquartered private consultancy services giant Deloitte for an unspecified sum.

Four cloud companies have achieved Strategic Hosting Provider certification under the Federal Government's Hosting Certification Framework. One of them, Sliced Tech, was acquired by global consultancy Deloitte on Thursday.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

Facebook has once again shown the Australian Government that it cares little about any edicts Canberra may have issued, snubbing SBS and The Conversation when they sought deals with the social media giant under the news media content legislation.

A series of participating Telstra stores in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne are letting customers take advantage of Telstra's new two hour delivery service to coincide "with the latest handset launches," but Canberrans, who are also in lockdown, miss out.

ASX-listed Canberra-based cyber security firm archTIS has acquired some assets of data protection solutions provider Cipherpoint, including the customers, technology and the European operations of the company's software division.

Cybersecurity company Fortinet has recently completed its investment in the Federal Government Integration and Innovation Centre in Canberra, which is set to open in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Staff and students at the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) have taken out a number of awards at the Skills Canberra ACT Training Awards.

IT services company FTS Group has acquired Canberra-headquartered IT and consulting business Mentum Systems.

Azure NetApp Files, a high-performance file storage service, is now available in Au Central, the Azure Government Cloud in Canberra.

Canberra-based global technology provider for secure collaboration of sensitive information archTIS has launched a new global channel partner program.