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Average petrol prices rose in the September quarter 2020 after a record low earlier in the year, but still remain well below the 15-year real average of 151.6 cents per litre (cpl), according to a new report from the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

Hobart-based Internet service provider TasmaNet has acquired Queensland telco Internomic which trades under the brand names Vastnet in regional Queensland and Netmode in metro Brisbane and surrounds.

Australian end-to-end document and digital solutions provider to the legal industry Law In Order says it has suffered a "cyber security incident" and has had to limit access to most of its website as a precaution.

Over 90,000 cars with deadly Takata airbags are still on Australian roads according to the latest quarterly update by the the competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Australian-based short-term workspaces marketplace, Spacenow, has launched Isolated Hotel Workspaces, a new category to its platform that allows individual workers and organisations across Australia to rent out COVID-Safe flexible and modular commercial spaces for a wide range of commercial space needs.

Optus has opened a new store in Brisbane which it says is its “most sophisticated” national flagship store, giving customers and visitors a taste of its “vision for the future” of its retail stores.

Publicly-listed data infrastructure and network services provider 5G Networks is offering Australian businesses deals on dark fibre, enabled by its ongoing metro fibre build for the enterprise.

Brisbane-based digital engineering SaaS provider RedEye has joined forces with the IBM and Shell-developed Oren Marketplace, as a founding solution provider on the platform.

Telstra has passed new milestones with 400 Queensland 5G sites now on-air and both the 450th Telstra 5G site on-air in Victoria and the 30th Tasmanian 5G site also on air, as the telco’s 5G rollouts continues apace.

Australian listed IT services provider Data#3 increased revenues by 14.9% to $1,625.9 million for the full year 2020 on the back of strong growth in public cloud revenues, which were up by 60.4% to $581.0 million.

Australia's eastern states have been hit by an outage on Sunday morning after the country's biggest telecommunications provider Telstra was hit by a massive distributed denial of service.

Brisbane-based payment solutions provider Cohort Go has incorporated in Brazil and partnered with local Brazilian bank, Itau, to provide what it claims is an “easier, more cost-effective money transfer solution” for Brazilian students studying internationally.

Business to business telecommunications company, More Telecom, says it is pushing further into the SME market, with the launch of a payment services business.

Queensland is set to strengthen its position in the cyber security sector, with three new Cyber Security Innovation Nodes to be established across the state.

Brisbane-based global electric vehicle DC fast-charging technology provider Tritium has been awarded a contract from the City of Pasadena in California to install 20 Tritium RT50/50kW DC Fast Chargers in the city’s Marengo Charging Plaza.

Australian online learning provider GO1 has raised US$40 million in a Series C funding round even as it claims to have tripled usage of its platform during the coronavirus pandemic. This brings the amount raised in total to over US$80 million.

Power management company Eaton has announced the opening of the new Australian head office of Power On at a new integrated design and technology hub in Brisbane.

An Australian start-up that is headquartered in the United States has raised $30 million in a series A funding round led by Stripe, with Index Ventures and Susa Ventures also participating.

The coronavirus crisis has prompted Queensland organisers to turn to the Internet to deliver an “Australia-first” virtual expo - QODE - partnering with You Tube to stream live, and free of charge, its Brisbane technology and innovation conference which will be staged over two days this week.

Facebook is trying to shift the responsibility to domain name registrars to take an active policing role, according to a Brisbane-based intellectual property and domain name lawyer Sandy Zhang, commenting on Facebook’s lawsuit against an American name registrar Namecheap and its proxy service Whoisguard.