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Snowflake has announced it is creating Polaris Catalog, an open standard implementation of Apache Iceberg, and that it will open source it in the next 90 days. This gives enterprises and the Iceberg community new levels of choice, flexibility, and control over their data.

GUEST OPINION by Mark Fioretto, Area Vice President and Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, UiPath: New global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards are coming to Australia next year, but many organisations could be under-prepared to meet the new requirements.

GUEST OPINION: The healthcare industry has been transforming radically over the past decade with the common goal of improving the way health care is delivered to patients.

The Alliance for OpenUSD has been formed by Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia, and the Joint Development Foundation to promote the standardisation, development, evolution, and growth of Pixar's Universal Scene Description technology.

A $2.1 million project by the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) to collect patient data in one place is aimed at better equipping healthcare workers when making critical and life-saving clinical decisions.

Global operator-led mobile messaging revenue will increase from US$87 billion in 2020 to US$88 billion in 2025, according to a new research report.

Member experts from AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, Maxlinear and Verizon elected at Q1 meeting part of overall team helping to directly impact the entire future of the broadband eco-system for service providers and the broadband user’s experience.

The telecommunications industry regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), is seeking public feedback on its compliance priorities for its 2021–22 work program.

New rules for telecommunications customer premises cabling products and wiring have been published by telecoms lobby group Communications Alliance.

The Global Esports Federation (GEF) has joined the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in a move aimed at creating the conditions necessary to establish international standards and guidelines for the esports ecosystem.

American companies have been given permission to work with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies when it comes to setting standards for the telecommunications sector.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has announced a pause on its inquiries examining both NBN entry-level access pricing and wholesale service standards, to allow the communications sector to focus on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Blockchain technology will be transformational across most industries within five to 10 years, with 60% of CIOs recently surveyed expecting some level of adoption of blockchain technologies in the next three years, according to a new report from Gartner.

Global payment services provider SWIFT has published a new API standard for the pre-authorisation of funds which it says paves the way for further innovation in financial services enabled by Open Banking.

Proposed changes to the regulation of international mobile roaming (IMR) services will come into effect in the Australian telecoms sector in January next year under draft changes put forward by the telecommunications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

Australia’s competition regulator, the ACCC, is proposing to authorise a new consumer code for retailers of products such as solar generation systems, energy storage systems, electrical vehicle charging and other emerging energy products and services.

Proposed new rules for telecommunications customer premises cabling products and wiring have been released for public consultation by the communications industry lobby group, Communications Alliance.

An Australian performance standard for residential and small-commercial battery systems connected to solar PV systems is under development.

Telecommunications consumer interest lobby group Australian Communications Consumer Action Network says new industry standards to help consumers make a smooth transition to Australia's national broadband network, the NBN, will go some way to reducing problems, raised with it by consumers frustrated by their transition experiences.

New telco industry standards designed to give consumers an improved complaints experience when migrating to the national broadband network are about to come into effect, with the regulator acknowledging that “buck-passing” has plagued consumer experiences in the past.