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Hot on the heels of ACCC investigations into the NBN and the market, NBN Co has announced new initiatives for improving customer service for small businesses and the accelerated launch of NBN Co's wholesale enterprise product.

ACT Education Minister Yvette Berry today announced the purchase of 15,000 Acer Chromebook devices, pushing for greater equity in Canberra's public schools.

Australian-listed school communications systems provider MGM Wireless has raised more than a quarter of a million dollars from an issue of new shares to existing shareholders, with the funds to be used to launch Spacetalk, its first hardware device.

Global ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data and Deakin University are partnering in an initiative designed to further build Australia’s cyber security capabilities and boost the stocks of security professionals to meet future demands.

The Xero Lifelong Learning Platform is an interesting move by the cloud accounting company.

Dell Boomi’s integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) is being used by Adelaide’s Flinders University to enable a connected environment as the university begins to execute its five-year digital strategy through to 2021.

Synnex has announced a partnership with artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics company UBTECH Robotics to distribute the latter's Alpha and Jimu range of robots in Australia from this month onwards.

Technology has pipped science by a fair margin as the most important subject Australians believe children should be learning at school, according to a newly published nationwide survey.

A Victorian Government decision on home-schooling, which allows school principals to decide, within 28 days, whether a child should be allowed to be tutored at home, could well end up having ramifications for the tech sector.

Tasmanian school Scotch Oakburn College has selected a Hewlett Packard Enterprise hyperconverged and Pointnext solution designed to boost its performance and improve the user experience, while minimising connectivity disruptions and operational costs.

Accounting software company MYOB has launched an education programme which, it says, is aimed at broadening the profession to people of a variety of ages and cultural backgrounds.

High-achieving students from the Australian Technology Network of Universities are this week taking part in a programme focused on the future of the ICT industry and the opportunities it will provide.

Australian education cyber security provider Family Zone is expanding its operations in the US market after 120 schools in the country deployed its cyber safety platform.

A new report on the global threats posed by cyber attacks has found that the prevalence of mobile malware remained steady from the fourth quarter 2016 to the first quarter of this year, with about 20% of organisations detecting the malware.

Global IT and business process services provider Cognizant has partnered with the University of Newcastle (UON) to develop a virtual reality (VR) solution to transform the way students learn key anatomy and birthing techniques.

Cloud security provider Mimecast and phishing defence solutions vendor PhishMe have collaborated to integrate educational security content to help organisations improve employee awareness of common email-borne attacks.

The Australian Computer Society says the budget falls short in providing sufficient funds to address the ICT skills gap and wants the federal government to allocate more funding to overcome the problem.

Women working in IT in the US are, on average, more likely to have a college degree than their male counterparts, but earn 6% less than men in the industry, according to a new study.

While Surface Pro fans wait for a new Surface Pro 5, and as Google Chromebooks dominate in education for years, Microsoft has finally made a move.

Optus has launched an online cyber education programme for secondary schools, TAFE and universities, including a Cyber Teacher Certification programme for ICT, mathematics and science teachers.