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NBN users in western parts of Brisbane, who are Telstra subscribers and are connected via HFC cable, have been enduring outages right through the week, with the Internet suddenly cutting off as early as 8.10am and reconnecting as late as 6pm.

Brisbane-based performance management provider Ikara Group has appointed 30-year ICT industry veteran Mike Hicks as its director of product development.

Broadband infrastructure provider FiberCorp is installing fibre technology across property developments in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, claiming the delivery of Internet connections on a standard plan 100 times faster than the fastest speed offered by NBN Co.

Data centre operator NextDC’s B2 Brisbane data centre has received Tier IV Gold Certification of Operational Sustainability from Uptime Institute.

Brisbane-based technology start-up Citrus is claiming successive new client wins both in Australia and globally, including wine merchant Dan Murphy, since launching its online advertising platform last December.

A tourism accelerator program run by Slingshot and backed by the Queensland Government’s $650 million Advance Queensland initiative has launched for the second consecutive year.

Cloud security and data protection solutions vendor Barracuda Networks has appointed 22-year business development and channel veteran Andrew Huntley as regional sales director for ANZ & Pacific Islands.

Interconnection and data centre company Equinix has announced that the Australia Singapore Cable, owned by Vocus, will be accessible in its International Business Exchange date centres in Singapore and six Australian metropolitan cities.

Watch out, Uber! An exuberant Ola now has a presence in six major metropolitan cities in Australia with a "credible rideshare alternative", with more cities on track and 30,000 registered ride-share driver partners. 

GPU vendor Nvidia is sending two of its senior robotics researchers to a major conference in Brisbane.

If you want six months free access to TPG's forthcoming new Australian mobile network, with unlimited data at 1Mbps speeds after 1GB at 4G LTE speeds, with the catch of non-national access and $9.99 per month after that, then read on.

Ok, ok, so Sydney isn't really being snubbed, it's just that travellers to Melbourne find Airbnb a very popular option compared with travellers to Sydney, according to the latest research.

Telstra has moved to boost mobile capacity in the Melbourne CBD with the installation of more than 50 new 4G cells at the city’s busiest locations.

Telstra has set "new smartphone speed records in Australia, recording 1.03Gbps speeds on Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+" in gigabit-enabled parts of Telstra's mobile network in Sydney. 

University tutoring platform Vygo is planning a national expansion drive after a successful rollout in major Queensland universities.

auDA, the administrator and industry self-regulatory policy body for Australia's .au domain space, is considering changes to the organisation through a review of its current policies.

Brisbane-based enterprise software-as-a-service company TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE) has expanded the reach of its charity foundation for 2018 - with a pledge to help 500,000 children and their families in India free themselves from poverty – through a new partnership with Opportunity International Australia.

Brisbane-based battery company Redflow has started manufacturing core components for its zinc-bromine flow batteries at its new production facility in Thailand.

Brisbane-based data centre operator Megaport says it is accelerating cloud adoption with the newly announced provision of direct, secure connectivity to IBM Cloud for enterprises.

Australian battery company Redflow has set a target of 3000 batteries a year to be produced by its new Thai factory, which it is currently fitting out.