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Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel has tapped the capabilities of tech giant Google to offer rich communication services (RCS) with rich business messaging, a move it claimed is a first in Singapore.

Telstra global arm Telstra International has partnered with Trans Pacific Networks (TPN) to build and operate the Echo Cable, a subsea cable to connect the US to Singapore, creating a new route and delivering connectivity in the Trans-Pacific.

Telstra International, the global arm of Telstra, will be partnering with Google and APTelecom to deliver the new central Pacific Connect initiative which it says will significantly uplift connectivity for people and businesses of the Pacific.

GUEST OPINION: 2023 saw a whirlwind of challenges – both old and new – but we also realised many opportunities to become more secure and stay ahead of evolving information security threats. As expected, it was another challenging year for information security as organisations continued looking for ways to stay ahead of hackers. We saw an increasing amount and complexity of phishing attacks overall, driven by a major trend throughout the year making a significant impact: AI-driven phishing. Phishing remains the most prevalent attack method due to its relatively low cost and high success rate, and the implementation of AI now only furthers this problem.

GUEST OPINION:  Should an organisation move to Google Workspace? Maybe. The answer should be based on an evaluation of multiple factors specific to how the organisation does business. It’s not an easy yes or no.

Google, Desarrollo País of Chile, and the Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT), have announced Humboldt, a subsea cable route linking Australia, French Polynesia, and Chile, strengthening the reliability and resilience of digital connectivity across the Pacific.

Google has started testing out the killing of third-party cookies which are used to track users from site to site and build profiles of them for the purpose of targeting advertising.

Google has agreed to pay US$700 million (A$1 billion) to settle an anti-trust case brought against the company by US states and consumers in a San Francisco court.

COMPANY NEWS:  Agency recognised for generating a 55% growth in online annual revenue for a long-standing retail client

Fortnite creator Epic Games has won an anti-trust case against Google which it filed three years ago, claiming that the app store policies of the latter violated anti-trust laws both at the US federal level and in California state.

Australia’s competition watchdog the ACCC has welcomed the Australian Government’s in-principle agreement to new competition and consumer laws recommended by the ACCC to address harms caused by digital platforms, and the potential benefits to consumers and small businesses from the regulatory changes.

ICT services provider NCS and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership designed to accelerate AI-led transformation for public and private sector organisations across Singapore, Australia, and the wider Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

GUEST OPINION: As another holiday shopping season arrives, with sales and special offers everywhere you turn, it is important to remember that the cybercriminals are also out in force, taking advantage of the noise, confusion, impatience, and stress. This is not just a consumer risk, but a business one.

The Canadian government has reached a deal with Google to prevent the search company from blocking online news when the Online News Act comes into force by the end of the year.

The continued expansion of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft into emerging technologies and other markets demonstrates the critical need for regulatory reform, according to Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC.

COMPANY NEWS: With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching, Yubico, the leading provider of passwordless hardware authentication security keys, has announced that during Cyber Week, which runs from 20-27 November, YubiKeys will be available for “buy one key, get 50% off your second key.”

GUEST RESEARCH: Halloween might be the spookiest time of the year, but threat actors are doing frightening things on the internet every day. In the past month we have introduced two terms: Domain Name System (DNS) threat actors and RDGA (registered domain generation algorithm). We also gave a taste of one type of DNS threat actor, the persistent phisher, through an exposé of Open Tangle.

COMPANY NEWS:  n3 Hub, the leader in marketing automation and data analytics, today announced the launch of n3 Hub CDP Orchestrator.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued software vendor SolarWinds and its chief information security officer, Timothy Brown, over fraud and internal control failures relating to allegedly known cyber security risks and vulnerabilities.

Tech giant Google will deploy two new trans-Pacific subsea cables between the United States and Australia via Fiji and French Polynesia with assistance from Australian specialist fibre and network solutions provider Vocus to deliver the new system.