The Australian Computer Society, the industry association for Australia’s computer professionals, is in disarray. The organisation is without a President, there are calls for the CEO’s resignation, and serious doubts have emerged over the organisation’s finances and its capacity to properly represent the profession.

Tech giant IBM will sell one of its remaining divisions and disappear into the company it acquired last year — open source firm Red Hat — the veteran technology scribe Robert X. Cringely says in his annual tech predictions.

Mobile industry body GSMA says the MWC Barcelona event scheduled for Barcelona in late February will still go ahead despite concerns about the potential impact on the event of the coronavirus outbreak.

The Victorian Government is funding a trial, to be implemented by NNNCo to test Internet of Things (IoT) technology on farms in four regional areas of the state.

Australian-listed call recording platform provider Dubber has signed an agreement with Telstra to enable Telstra customers to access Dubber’s Call Recording and Data Capture Platform for business telephony and mobile.

Square – originally famous for its compact payment card readers – is steadily expanding into the omnichannel commerce market.

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