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An international collaboration between Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, University of Queensland (UQ), Verily Life Sciences, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and James Cook University (JCU) has shown a bacteria can successfully sterilise and eradicate the invasive, disease carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito which is responsible for spreading dengue, yellow fever and Zika. 

In-space logistics provider Space Machines Company (SMC) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to test the deployment of nanosatellites from Adelaide nanosatellite manufacturer for the Internet of Things (IoT) Fleet Space Technologies.

COMPANY NEWS by NEC/Telefonica: Telecommunications service provider Telefonica and NEC Corporation have entered an agreement to conduct Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) pre-commercial trials in Telefonica's four core global markets of Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil.

A crackdown on scams perpetrated over phone networks is underway as the Australian Government works with the telecommunications industry regulator ACMA in an effort to combat the increasing scurge of scams.

Nokia and mobile communication service provider Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) have completed the first 5G end-to-end live network trial in Indonesia.

Telstra and Cohda Wireless have "successfully trialled Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technology over Telstra’s 4G network in South Australia" on the way to V2X tech.

Telstra has made some interesting announcements at its Mobile World Congress press event - a trial of Ericsson’s 5G technologies for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and some capital cities getting 1Gbps Cat 16 LTE later this year.

Australia's biggest telco Telstra is building Australia's biggest WiFi network, today announcing it would transform some of its old payphones into WiFi hotspots as part of the upcoming $100 million rollout.

Australia's biggest telco Telstra has claimed it's been able to hit mobile speeds of a whopping 450 megabits per second in a trial of LTE advanced (LTE-A) carrier aggregation, in partnership with Ericsson.

Melbourne is the world's most liveable city and it's set to get even more so. A successful free Wi-Fi trial at Melbourne's Flinders Station has led the Victorian government to announce a tender process to deliver free public Wi-Fi in Melbourne's CBD.

NBN Co chief Ziggy Switkowski has fired a warning shot at Internet provider TPG, telling a Senate committee that the national broadband network's finances could be "severely impacted" by competition from other fibre-to-the-basement Internet providers.

Their fast bowlers might be rubbish but an internet connection in England has hit the "fastest speed ever", reaching scorching speeds of 1.4 terabits a second.

The Australian Federal Police has announced plans to implement controversial new technology that will capture emails and other information sent in real time.

The biggest of Apple and Samsung's numerous legal tussles has potentially been resolved once and for all, with a jury ordering Samsung to pay Apple US$290 million.

NBN Co has initiated a trial involving Aussie ISPs that will see 1000 homes and offices connected with fibre-to-the-building technology next year.

NSW inmates willl now have a tough time sending texts or making calls, thanks to a new prison mobile phone jamming trial.

One of the co-founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has today gone on trial, charged with hacking and stealing data from an government IT services company.