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The terrific televisual boom that is the OTT revolution is set to get even more entertainingly profitable, set to nearly double from 2017 levels.

Finding ICT contractors continues to be a challenge for recruiters, and hourly rates for both contractors and permanent employees have dipped, according to latest to the Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA).

Digital TV playout, streaming and archiving service company MediaHub has used MapR's Hadoop distribution as the basis of its content archiving system.

Sometime tomorrow someone will flick a switch, and analogue TV transmission in Australia will cease, 57 years after it started. The changeover took place faultlessly.

In December analogue TV transmission will cease in Australia’s two largest cities.

In April Adelaide will become the first state capital to turn off analogue TV signals. By December all Australia will be totally digital.

Bush reckons its new Mini BVR320FV DVR is the smallest on the Australian market.

Governments are fair game for criticism, and those of a right-wing persuasion are understandably keen on bagging the present government. But it behooves them to get their facts right. Ruslan Kogan's ongoing campaign against the digital TV Household Assistance Scheme serves double-duty as a way of gaining free publicity for his company's low prices.

The same old TiVo with a bigger hard drive is an insult to loyal Australian TiVo users.

Discount electronic retailer Ruslan Kogan reckons the Government has been conned into setting aside $308 million in tonight's Budget to provide pensioners with set top boxes so that they can continue to watch TV once the analogue signal is switched off.

The rabble-rousers and outraged tabloid readers/listeners/viewers are getting hot under the collar about a $300 million budget allocation for the Household Assistance Scheme associated with the digital TV switchover. I reckon their concern could be misplaced.

A five year agreement between the government-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation and telco supplier Ericsson will see free-to-air digital TV made available Australia-wide, including rural communities. The agreement will involve the ABC using Ericsson's satellite video compression technology to expand the reach of digital TV.

Optus has been awarded contracts by multiple broadcasters to transmit digital free-to-air services into areas where terrestrial digital TV isn't available.

The Freeview DTV consortium has announced a new EPG for those equipped with Freeview badged devices.  Behind all the bluster and diversionary tactics, this new EPG does add one nice feature that is enticing, but don't rush out and buy a Freeview device.

2000 Mildura households have received Federal Government assistance to switch to digital television.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has warned Sydney viewers that they may need to do a rescan of their digital TVs or other receivers to pick up TVS on channel 44.