| Today on iTWire | This Morning ACCC takes MSY Technology to court over consumer rights misrepresentation Written by Peter Dinham The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken court action against computers and electronic goods retailer MSY Technology over allegations the company has misrepresented consumers’… Read more... Uber, DrinkWise giving away $1m worth of rides in drink-driving initiative Written by Peter Dinham Ride-sharing service Uber is partnering with safe drinking campaign DrinkWise to give away $1 million in ride discounts over the Christmas-New Year season as part… Read more... Optus co-invests $36.4 million to help alleviate regional mobile blackspots Written by Peter Dinham Australia’s second largest telco Optus has secured funding to build 114 new mobile sites as part of the federal government’s mobile blackspot programme aimed at… Read more... Telstra expanding rural, regional coverage with mobile blackspot remediation Written by Peter Dinham Telstra says more residents and businesses visitors in rural and regional Australia will soon benefit from its expanded mobile coverage, including superfast mobile broadband, under… Read more... Travel insurance no longer default on Virgin flights Written by Sam Varghese Virgin Australia has stopped making travel insurance a default option on its online booking website after discussions with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Read more... Court allows IRS to obtain details of digital currency users Written by Sam Varghese A federal court in the northern district of California has authorised the US Internal Revenue Service to obtain details of the users of the cryptocurrency… Read more... Thursday Afternoon ANZ launches BladePay mobile payments solution Written by Peter Dinham The ANZ Bank has launched its mobile payments system for business customers — BladePay — and announced that six point-of-sale vendors are now developing customised… Read more... $170 billion boost to economy if ‘entrepreneurship’ also gets a boost: StartupAUS Written by Peter Dinham An improvement in conditions for entrepreneurship in Australia could add up to $170 billion to the economy, but “significant barriers” still remain to Australia having… Read more... Samsung Note7s in Australia to be kicked off telco networks Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt If you STILL have a Samsung Galaxy Note7 and have somehow missed the fact that Note7s are dangerous, Australian telcos will kick you off networks… Read more... SpeedCast releases Sigma Net for shipping industry Written by Peter Dinham Global satellite communications and network service provider, SpeedCast, has released Sigma Net, a new standard for shipping and remote site network management designed specifically for… Read more... Seagate Backup Plus Portable reaches 5TB Written by Ray Shaw In the poker world, there is a saying, “See you and raise you one.” Seagate has taken this literally, taking its external Backup Plus portable… Read more... Apple plans Parkinson's app, cardiac devices Written by Sam Varghese Apple has plans to build an app to diagnose Parkinson's disease and two separate but related cardiac devices, the website MobiHealthNews has reported, based on… Read more... NSW P-Platers – no more mobile use in the car! Written by Ray Shaw December 1 — today — is the day when NSW P-Plate drivers can no longer use a mobile phone, even if it is in a… Read more... Gooligan a hooligan stealing Google Accounts Written by Ray Shaw New malware called Gooligan has breached more than one million Google Accounts and that number increases every day. Read more... Over-leveraged balance sheet behind Avaya's woes: analyst Written by Sam Varghese California-based telecommunications company Avaya's over-leveraged balance sheet has brought it to the restructuring table, according to a legal analyst at the financial intelligence firm Debtwire. Read more... Netflix – offline mobile viewing now available Written by Ray Shaw Netflix members can now download content for offline viewing on a mobile device at no extra cost in addition to its normal streaming service. Read more... SUSE buys OpenStack, Cloud Foundry technology from HPE Written by Sam Varghese Germany-based SUSE Linux has made a deal with HPE to buy technology and staff that will increase its OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution and speed up its… Read more... Sponsored Announcements A Bumper Christmas eClub Event Celebrates 20 Years of Offis Multi-Cloud Services Sydney cloud services company Offis is celebrating its twentieth birthday in the only way it knows how: filling a room with some of the smartest… Read more... Yellowfin, La Trobe University launch partnership with analytics challenge award Australian-based global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has officially launched its industry partnership with La Trobe University with the presentation of the… Read more... The Secrets to True Innovation - Amazon Futurist HB Siegel to Visit Australia Amazon may once have been ‘just’ an online bookseller, but how should anyone describe the company today? Its ever-growing retail operation aside, Amazon has also… Read more... Which JavaScript Framework is Best for You? A JavaScript framework has become one of the preferred backbones in building a website. As it would be nigh on impossible to evaluate all of… Read more... Influential Futurist H.B. Siegel (Pixar/ILM/Amazon) Comes to Sydney H.B. Siegel’s current job title of Principal Investigator might sound rather mundane, like some kind of local school inspector. However, once you learn his employer… Read more... Analytics vendor Yellowfin to enable infographics and beautiful dashboards with 7.3 launch Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has positioned itself as the leading modern BI platform for creating code-free analytical applications, purpose-built analytic… Read more... |
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