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Telstra is boosting its position in the online retail market by buying local online e-commerce platform Neto.

UberX is one year old, celebrating one million rides in Sydney, one million in Melbourne, 100,000 in Brisbane and has lowered Melbourne UberX prices.

A team of software developers at Brisbane-based company NetEngine has initiated a crowd-sourcing project leveraging mobile and web-based applications to create reliable maps for the most vulnerable areas of Nepal affected by the recent earthquake.

Brisbane-based, listed data centre provider NextDC (ASX:NXT) and giant US telco CenturyLink will be able to sell IT services into each other’s data centres in Australia under an agreement between the two companies that further extends CenturyLink’s global footprint into the Australian market.

ingogo has released a new version of its taxi booking and payment services app for iOS and Android.

The Moovit local transport app is now officially serving selected Australian cities following a beta period that attracted more than 200,000 users.

The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) says it is at the forefront of airport R&D, spearheading international research to make airport experiences safer and faster, at its purpose built Airport Innovation Research (AIR) lab.

Vodafone has finally joined the LTE-A carrier aggregation bandwagon on 850 and 1800Mhz across its 4G metropolitan network, but is it as fast as Telstra?

Data centre provider NEXTDC (ASX:NXT) has signed an agreement with Microsoft to enable direct cloud connectivity to Microsoft Azure via ExpressRoute from NEXTDC data centres in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth.

Brisbane-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions provider First Point Global has partnered with global data security company STEALTHbits Technologies to provide extended identity and access governance capabilities to its customers.

Accounting software giant Intuit, makers of the Quickbooks cloud accounting solution, has expanded its Sydney-based Australian business with an on-the-ground presence in the Queensland market.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a former research scientist in her own right, is to visit the NICTA research centre of excellence while in Australia for the G20 summit.

Melbourne has the unenviable record as the Australian city most susceptible to malware threats, according to new research ranking it ahead of Brisbane, Perth and Sydney.

The big US online accounting software provider Intuit, which entered the Australian market in its own right just over one year ago, has launched a set of new developer tools which it says will open up global access to a cloud-based small business market for Aussie developers.

NICTA's latest location - a lab in Spring Hill, Brisbane - is open for business.

Two Brisbane-based QUT game developers have announced angel funding for their product FunCaptcha, which helps prevent spam and improve the security of thousands of websites.

Technology developed by Australian critical infrastructure management solutions vendor Opengear is successfully allowing remote maintenance of hospital-based robots worldwide to aide the recovery of stroke patients.

Brisbane-based hosting and IT services company ATechnology, has expanded and strengthened its management team in response to what it says is strong customer demand.

Australian technology exporter has recorded 50% growth in sales in its 10th anniversary year, on the back of a strong performance in its biggest market in the United States.

There’s no jobs boom, but there is continuing momentum in job growth in Australia’s ICT sector, according to a newly published salary and employment index. While jobs demand, however, is slowly creeping upwards, that demand for digital professionals is currently outstripping supply.