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ASX-listed guest Wi-Fi, analytics and marketing tools provider Skyfii has teamed with Optus Business to secure a deal for the expansion of guest WiFi and consumer analytics services across five retail shopping centre sites of property group Mirvac.

ASX-listed guest Wi-Fi, analytics and marketing tools provider Skyfii has completed a successful funding round of more than $4 million, primarily to fund continued expansion in new markets including North America and EMEA.

Mobile data traffic generated by smartphones, tablets, connected cars, and other M2M modules around the world is forecast to reach 129,000 petabytes by 2018, equivalent to approximately 14 billion hours of 4K ultra high definition video streaming, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

Telstra is offering its mobile customers free Wi-Fi data at hotspots around the world with its Telstra Air service, claiming a first for a major Australian telco to make the offer available to personal mobile customers.

Aussies often use their smartphones to send and receive data, but it has collectively cost them $146 million in excess data charges this year, according to a survey by comparison website Finder.

Microsoft and networking equipment maker D-Link will join hands in a project to deliver faster Wi-Fi based on the 802.11af protocol, D-Link chairman John Hsuan announced in Taipei on Monday.

Telstra has launched its Smart Home range of products, including door and window sensors, motion sensors, Wi-Fi cameras, light bulbs, smart power outlets and smart door locks.

Brocade, the company that acquired Ruckus Wireless, and which is now being acquired by Broadcom, has done a major wireless deal with the University of Nottingham’s Malaysian campus.

Despite promising the rollout of in-flight Wi-Fi from "early 2017", which it actually will still do with one plane, it won’t be until 2018 that Qantas' entire domestic fleet will be Wi-Fi equipped.

New Zealand property investment firm, Stride Property, has deployed a retail Wi-Fi solution from global networking equipment company Aerohive Networks, in the NorthWest Shopping Centre in Auckland.

The decision of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to make major changes in its main science programme, Catalyst, after a review is telling: one of the five people who was responsible for programmes that led to the review was the sponsor of the review himself!

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has concluded a review of its main science programme, Catalyst, and is considering the recommendations that have been put forward.

The 802.11ad support is just part of Netgear's recipe for what is says is the world's fastest home router.

WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud connects and protects SMBs and distributed enterprises with fully automated wireless threat prevention and enterprise-grade interactive engagement and analytics features.

Nokia says fixed networks will play a key role in achieving network transformation and true convergence with 5G mobile and IoT.

With Australia’s two major airlines, Qantas and Virgin Australia, soon set to offer in-flight Wi-Fi, this is a timely warning to protect yourself with a VPN.

Netgear says its new ProSafe WAC740 premium 802.11ac 4x4 Wave 2 wireless access point provides market-leading cost:performance when combined with the ProSAFE M4200 multi-gigabit managed switch.

Sydney's famous Bondi Beach and the Bondi area is to have free Wi-Fi with Waverley Council deploying guest Wi-Fi provided by Wi-Fi and data analytics services company Skyfii.

The AFL has challenged footy fans at Friday night’s ualifying final between Geelong and Hawthorn at the MCG to set a new Wi-Fi connection record to beat the stadium’s previous mark for the most people connected to the Wi-Fi network at any one time.

D-Link's new DWR-921 4G LTE router is essentially a conventional small office router that includes a built-in 4G modem.