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Data protection and software-defined storage company Veritas Technologies has appointed 25-year technology veteran John Abel as senior vice president and chief information officer.
Australian banking solutions supplier Ultradata has committed to extend its partnership with G&C Mutual Bank for the delivery of technology utilising a new cloud based core banking solution and associated digital services.
Scott Morrison's website taken over after domain name expires
Written by Sam Varghese
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's personal website has been taken over by an unknown person and is playing a song by the American band Lustra titled Scotty Doesn't Know.
Over the Wire inks agreements to buy Access Digital Networks, Comlinx
Written by Peter Dinham
ASX listed telecommunications, cloud and IT solutions provider, Over the Wire, has inked binding agreements to acquire all the shares in Access Digital Networks, and all shares in Comlinx.
Is the iPhone Optus sells different from what others sell?
Written by Sam Varghese
ANALYSIS Is the iPhone that Optus is selling in any way different from the one that Telstra, or for that matter Vodafone, is putting on sale? One doubts there is any deviation in the models, all being designed in Cupertino and manufactured in China.
ACCC hits hard with $170 million in penalties for consumer law breaches
Written by Peter Dinham
The communications and telecommunications sector, including major telcos like Telstra, was under the glare of the spotlight of the competition watchdog, the ACCC in the 2017-2018 financial year, when it secured nearly $170 million in penalties for breaches of competition and consumer laws.
Germany-based open source company SUSE Linux has expanded its relationship with Chinese provider Alibaba Cloud due to what it says is a bigger demand for cost-effective and flexible SAP workloads on a public cloud.
US start-up sues Huawei over alleged theft of SSD technology
Written by Sam Varghese
A California-based start-up named CNEX Labs has sued Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei Technologies, alleging that the latter has engaged in a plan over many years to steal its technology.
Ecuador is making moves to try and strip WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange of his citizenship, granted last year, in order to comply with reported US demands for his extradition to be tried on charges of leaking secrets.
S&P says 5G no magic bullet to solve telcos' NBN issues
Written by Sam Varghese
The advent of 5G networks will not provide any kind of salvation for telecommunications providers who are desperate for some way of fighting back against the unreasonably high prices charged by NBN Co, a report from the credit ratings agency S&P Global Ratings says.
Google wants to do business in Australia, but pay no tax
Written by Sam Varghese
Google's chief economist Dr Hal Varian is of the opinion that his employer should not pay "excessive" tax on its Australian revenue because this money is derived due to its "intellectual capital" which mostly resides in California.
Australian farmers are being helped in their efforts to keep the fruit fly away from their crops by RapidAIM, a real-time monitoring system that detects the presence and location of the flies.
Cryptomining on the rise in Aust, NZ, claims Malwarebytes
Written by Sam Varghese
The fall in the value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has led to a fall in the planting of cryptomining scripts by Windows malware in the third quarter of this year generally, but not in Australia and New Zealand.
DTA, cyber expert at odds over GovPass analysis
Written by Sam Varghese
The author of a detailed analysis on the Federal Government's proposed identity scheme, GovPass — a trial of which is scheduled to begin this month — says he worked closely with the Digital Transformation Agency while preparing it, but ultimately disagreed with the agency on its implications.
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The competition watchdog, the ACCC, is not opposing the proposed $6.6 million acquisition of taxi dispatch systems company Mobile Technologies international by Cabcharge Australia.
Facebook and Google censor sites to curry political favour
Written by Sam Varghese
Facebook and Google appear to be using the hysteria in the US over alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections — yes, its still going on — to block access to alternative, smaller media sites and videos.
Security vendor McAfee has detected the re-use of code associated with Chinese military affiliated hacker group APT1, aka Comment Crew.
New Zealand ecommerce company Container Door has launched in Australia, with its platform linking consumers directly to foreign factories on a mass-market scale.
Govt to amend copyright act to block infringing sites
Written by Sam Varghese
The Coalition Government will introduce changes to the copyright law on Thursday, to give creative industries what it calls "even more powerful weapons" to fight copyright infringement by sites based outside the country.
