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With Australia about to embark on setting up its own space agency, the Australian National University’s (ANU) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) has announced a new agreement with UNSW Canberra on building and testing satellites and space instruments.

Innovation is driving the growth of the global ride-sharing industry with service providers and operators likely to pull in an estimated US$11 billion in revenue this year, increasing to US$19 billion in 2022.

Brisbane-based industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and operation technology (OT) solutions provider RIoT Solutions is trumpeting significant growth on the back of its digital transformation business in the two years since its establishment.

Top Italian telco Wind Tre, a merger of the previous Three Mobile and Wind brands, has more customers than people in Australia — 31.3 million — and has entered the MATRIXX of digitally transformative nirvana.

Western Digital still makes top-notch hard drives in ever larger capacities, and is now a true SSD competitor with its 64-layer 3D SSD tech making moves for market supremacy.

If you feel an extreme need for speed, Intel is extremely keen to smash AMD’s “surp-ryzen” performance with its own range of newly extreme processors on silicon steroids.

Promising “premium performance” for its “best gaming processor ever”, featuring a “boost in frame rate rate ‘of up to’ 25% gen over gen”, Intel is pulling out all the stops to outshine the land of AMD’s Ryzen sun.

If you’re not getting paid on time after invoicing, a new survey by ezyCollect has some interesting findings while divulging ways to get paid faster.

A new report by the University of Sydney’s Business School, dubbed the Transport Opinion Survey, suggests self-driving cars won’t ease road congestion but might even increase it.

At the CACS Oceania ISACA 2017 conference, I found a global company new to the Australian market specialising in risk control solutions, and spoke to its chief mentor, Anil Bhandari to learn more.

How does one describe the annual results from NBN Co, a company that loses $4.24 billion and then announces that it "delivered strong financial results, exceeding key targets set by the board?"

The competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), is appealing against the High Court’s decision dismissing its allegations that LG Electronics made false or misleading representations to consumers about repair, replacement or refund rights in relation to faulty televisions.

Technical issues caused flight delays at Sydney Airport from about 5am today, with flights unable to leave and few able to arrive.

ISACA’s Oceania CACS 2017 conference was held early September, and I captured Alastair MacGibbon’s excellent keynote speech, as well as Mike Trovato’s keynote, interviewing them both, Jo Stewart-Rattray on Women in Tech and ISACA chief executive Matt Loeb.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is set to reduce its staff count by about 10%, with the cuts beginning before the end of the year.

The European Union has given an indication that it is serious about going after big technology companies that avoid paying taxes in states that belong to the union.

Australia plans to set up an industry-led cyber security co-operative research centre, with the government announcing an investment of $50 million.