| Today on iTWire | This Morning Adelaide aims to be ‘smart’, Ten Gigabit city Written by Peter Dinham The City of Adelaide has endorsed the development of a business case to build a Ten Gigabit Optical Fibre network to cover the CBD and… Read more... IA wants govt review of ‘essential service’ NBN Written by Peter Dinham A newly published poll showing many Australians regard the Internet as an essential service has prompted Internet Australia chief executive Laurie Patton to call on… Read more... ACMA looks 5 years ahead on spectrum planning Written by Peter Dinham The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released its five-year outlook on priorities for spectrum management and an update on the mobile broadband programme… Read more... ACCAN sets ‘consumer-centred’ Internet, digital policy agenda Written by Peter Dinham Better communications for areas poorly served by the Internet and improved consumer safeguards and better regulation head a list of policy priorities to be pursued… Read more... Messaging app Signal proves its security credentials Written by Sam Varghese The messaging app Signal has been shown to be the best for those who care about their privacy, with the company behind it being unable… Read more... Netgear WAC740 Wi-Fi access point designed for high client densities Written by Stephen Withers Netgear says its new ProSafe WAC740 premium 802.11ac 4x4 Wave 2 wireless access point provides market-leading cost:performance when combined with the ProSAFE M4200 multi-gigabit managed… Read more... Matrox C900: when too many screens are barely enough Written by Stephen Withers The new Matrox C900 graphics card can drive nine, count them, nine screens. Read more... Egencia brings wearables into its travel app realm Written by Ray Shaw With smart watches and mobiles, people now expect to see their content and settings — regardless of the screen size — carry over from the… Read more... Nvidia adds to Pascal family Written by Stephen Withers Nvidia's new Tesla P4 and P40 GPU accelerators are aimed at production AI systems. Read more... Hardware firewall the answer for secure SME Internet access Written by Ray Shaw Many businesses are dependent on fast, reliable, and secure Internet connectivity, but are struggling to find network security solutions that can keep up with their… Read more... CSIRO first in APAC with DGX-1 supercomputers Written by Stephen Withers CSIRO has deployed two Nvidia DGX-1 supercomputers in a Canberra data centre. Read more... iOS and macOS updates can kill a VPN Written by Ray Shaw The Twittersphere has been buzzing with complaints from users unable to use VPNs after an upgrade to iOS 10.x or macOS Sierra. Read more... Windows Hello is coming to iPhone and many more devices Written by Ray Shaw You will soon be able to use an iPhone to log into a Windows PC – and we thought the twain shall never meet. Come… Read more... Samsung's Galaxy Note7 earns it a Shonky Award Written by Sam Varghese Samsung's exploding Galaxy Note7 has earned the company a Shonky Award, the annual awards that are given out by Australian consumer group CHOICE. Read more... Yahoo! hack could have leaked more than 1 billion accounts Written by Ray Shaw ANALYSIS Reports are emerging that Yahoo!'s claimed 500 million record database breach in 2014 may have been much larger — somewhere between one and three… Read more... Microsoft launches new Asia Pacific cybersecurity, ‘transparency’ centre Written by Peter Dinham Microsoft has launched its first combined Transparency Centre and Cybersecurity Centre in Singapore to service the Asia-Pacific region. Read more... Wednesday Afternoon ASIC workers join protest against database sale Written by Sam Varghese Workers at the Australian Securities and Investment Commission have become the latest group to join the protest against the federal government's proposal to sell off… Read more... Bill Ferris hits the warning button on research commercialisation Written by Peter Dinham The chair of Innovation and Science Australia, Bill Ferris, has called for greater collaboration between Australian businesses and publicly funded research institutions, and warned about… Read more... Pixel phone: customer service is Google's Achilles heel Written by Sam Varghese Google has done what many people expected and launched its own phone, along with other devices to aid it in its market tussle with Apple's… Read more... Weather delays second NBN satellite launch by a day Written by Sam Varghese The launch of NBN Co's second Sky Muster satellite was delayed this morning, the company said today. Later, NBN Co informed the media that the… Read more... BadKernel affects one in every 16 Android devices – 100m+ affected Written by Ray Shaw A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Chromium mobile browser dubbed BadKernel allows hackers to gain control of a user’s Android smartphone. Read more... Yahoo! spied on users' email at spy agencies' behest: report Written by Sam Varghese Yahoo! searched all its users' emails using a specially built program in order to try and locate specific information demanded by American intelligence officials, according… Read more... UE Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom … Written by Ray Shaw If ever you wanted to annoy the neighbours just invite oh, say, 50 of your UE Boom owning, close friends over for a party. UE’s… Read more... City of Moscow begins move away from Microsoft Written by Sam Varghese The city of Moscow plans to replace Microsoft software on thousands of computers with domestic programs, according to a report on the Vedomosti website. Read more... Sponsored Announcements MGTS appointed to distribute NX Witness in Australia Network Optix, America’s fastest growing software company, has appointed MGTS as a distributor for Nx Witness in the Australian market. Read more... Focused alliance pays customer loyalty dividends for ICT Networks and Juniper Networks A highly focused, long-term alliance between Sydney-based ICT Networks and Juniper Networks continues to yield dividends in terms of customer loyalty driving business expansion. Read more... Vodafone’s Iñaki Berroeta to look at the ‘future of mobile’ in TelSoc Charles Todd oration Vodafone Australia chief executive Iñaki Berroeta will be the latest of a long-list of high profile ICT industry and business leaders to give the Telecommunications… Read more... Yellowfin’s Business Analytics Workflow a “welcome development” for BI industry says Devlin Yellowfin’s introduction of a unique Business Analytics Workflow within its Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software platform – to facilitate superior collaboration between data analysts… Read more... BI software vendor Yellowfin to host data driven marketing Webinar series Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, is set to host a series of educative Webinars on data-driven marketing best practices throughout Wednesday… Read more... StorageCraft releases VirtualBoot for vSphere Global backup and disaster recovery leader, StorageCraft® Technology Corp., has announced the release of StorageCraft VirtualBoot™ for vSphere, a new technology that makes the recovery… Read more... |
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