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African telecoms and infrastructure operator AFR-IX Telecom has secured new funding in the form of a €14.3 million grant from the European Commission (EC) to support the Medusa Africa submarine cable system through the EU's CEF Digital programme.

Swedish fibre-based broadband operator GlobalConnect has joined a consortium of five Nordic organisations planning to build a fibre cable linking Northern Europe, East Asia and the US via the Arctic.

French telecoms provider Orange has partnered with SETAR, a full service telco on the island of Aruba, to implement a project which will connect the Caribbean with high speed internet services.

COMPANY NEWS: As organisations continue to migrate data to the cloud, where and how data is handled is becoming an important consideration. In response to growing demand, WithSecure (formerly F-Secure Business) is introducing the option for its Cloud Protection for Salesforce customers in Australia and Singapore to select where their data is processed. The trusted, natively integrated solution prevents attacks via files and URLs uploaded to Salesforce Clouds.

Broadcom's purchase of VMware, first announced in May 2022, is expected to be finalised by 30 October, the company says in a statement, following the clearance of the deal by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority.

Apple has threatened to withdraw services like iMessage and FaceTime from the UK, if it is forced to implement measures around encryption by the government.

Three hundred and ninety scientists and researchers from 34 countries, including Australia and New Zealand, have published an open letter to the EU opposing the bloc's proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation due to its weakening of end-to-end encryption.

eGate hardware revenue will exceed US$490 million globally by 2027; up from US $207 million in 2023 as airports seek to cope with rebounding travel,  according to a new study.

A multi-country consortium consisting of European identity experts has been chosen to deliver a cross-border payments pilot, for the European Commission’s (EC) EU digital identity wallet program.

Driven by vaccination certificates, the need for identity checks in financial services, and the potential of the metaverse, governments across the world realise the benefits and the importance of digital identity, enabling the technology to take off, according to data and analytics company GlobalData.

A new study has found that the number of instant payment transactions will exceed 376 billion globally by 2027; increasing from 97 billion in 2022, a 289% growth.

The European Commission (EC) has given the green light for airlines to provide the latest 5G technology on their planes, as the regulatory body updated the implementing decision on spectrum for mobile communications on-board aircrafts, designating certain frequencies for in-flight 5G technology.

European security firm MDSec has taken exception to the release of a blog post by another security outfit, Proofpoint, about its penetration testing framework Nighthawk, accusing the latter of making "unsubstantiated and speculative projections" about the framework.

The European Union is set to impose strict cybersecurity measures on its members, with new legislation setting tighter requirements for businesses, administrations, and infrastructure across a range of sectors deemed to be essential.

Globally, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of accounts specified in data requests for government surveillance increased from 0.9 million to 1.3 million - with Australia ranked eighth in government surveillance, according to the latest study by cybersecurity company Surfshark.

Farmers for Climate Action, a farmer-led organisation focused solely on climate change, says strong climate policy can help deliver Australian farmers a “great trade deal “with the EU.

American semiconductor giant Intel has announced it will invest up to €80 billion (A$121.9 billion) in European Union states over the next decade, in everything from research and development to manufacturing to state-of-the art packaging technologies.

The German Federal Office for Information Security [German acronym BSI] has recommended that users replace anti-virus software made by Russian vendor Kaspersky with other products, a warning that the company has dismissed as being driven by political considerations.

For semiconductor company Qualcomm, 5G mmWave is a revolutionary cellular technology, providing access to massive bandwidth and capacity available in frequency bands above 24GHz.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud, along with 30 other technology companies in the EU, has filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft for allegedly forcing companies to use its file-hosting service One Drive on Windows.