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Irish broadcaster and fibre network operator Virgin Media has signalled its intention to launch a 5 Gbps fibre broadband service in Q2 2025.

UK telco BT has agreed to sell its Irish wholesale and enterprise business unit to local telecommunications conglomerate Speed Fibre Group for €22 million.

Record power outages have crippled mobile network infrastructure in the UK and Ireland, after Storm Éowyn wreaked havoc on electricity and telecoms infrastructure in recent days, according to performance metrics site Ookla.

UK telecoms provider BT has agreed to sell its datacentre business in Ireland to global digital infrastructure provider Equinix in a deal worth US$61 million.

American telecommunications company Motorola Solutions will open a new research and development (R&D) centre in Cork, Ireland that is expected to generate 200 highly-skilled jobs.

Victorian education technology supplier Compass has won a tender to supply more than 800 Western Australian public schools with management software, a deal it will fulfill along with Brisbane firm TechnologyOne.

Facebook parent Meta has changed its data processing rules for those living in the European Union, European Economic Area and Switzerland, saying it would from now on seek consent for targeted advertising.

The Irish unit of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been handed a €1.2 billion fine (A$1.95 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Authority over its transfers of personal data from the EU to the US since 16 July 2020.

Global human resource management solutions provider Remote has announced that Barbara Matthews has joined the company as its Chief People Officer.

Operational productivity at financial services institutions has steadily improved since the pandemic, highlighting the need for Australian and New Zealand-based organisations in the sector to urgently address capacity issues to build on productivity gains and fulfil their true potential., according to a new quarterly report from management process automation company ActiveOps.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

Microsoft has been accused of using a huge network of tax havens and subsidiaries to minimise the quantum of tax it pays in Australia, a report from a tax transparency group claims.

With the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro smartphones, one of Google's main aims appears to be stemming the flow of users from Android to iOS, a technology analyst with the company Counterpoint Research claims.

The European Union is set to file an anti-trust suit against Apple over the NFC chip technology it uses for tap-and-go payments, a report claims.

A study conducted by cloud security vendor Zscaler found there was a 700% increase in IoT-specific malware attacks in December 2020 compared with the pre-pandemic period.

Internet payments software provider Stripe has raised $733 million (US$600m) with completion of a funding round, with the capital to be used for investment in its European operations and to expand its Global Payments and Treasury Network to support what it says is “surging demand” from enterprise heavyweights.

Irish smart grid technology firm VIOTAS has set up operations in Melbourne to sell its demand response services to commercial and industrial electricity consumers in Australia.

Premier aircraft leasing asset manager SKY Leasing has been hit by a gang of cyber criminals using the Windows Avaddon ransomware and the attackers have leaked 20 files of the company's data on the dark web.

Shipments of traditional PCs — notebooks, desktops and workstations — in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will come to 82.7 million units this year, a 12.7% increase year-on-year, the technology analyst firm IDC says, adding that with the effect of the pandemic not expected to lessen in any way, the demand for devices that could be used for working from home would be strong through 2020 and into the first half of 2021.

Ransomware gangs appear to have added another tool to their arsenal in order to extort ransoms from their victims, with some using distributed denial of service attacks to pile on the pressure.