Giant Chinese online retailer, Alibaba, is to open its first Australian office later this year as part of its global strategy to create opportunities for Australia’s merchants to benefit from China’s big spending consumers and the boom in spending throughout the Southeast Asia region.

The Internet of Things Alliance Australia (IoTAA) coalition of industry and government stakeholders has been launched as a not-for-profit group to develop opportunities presented by the IoT for Australian business and industry and the economy.

There are many evils attributed to the Internet and the rise of publishing on the Web, but none quite so astounding as those claimed by the former editor of the Guardian Australia, Katharine Viner.

Residents of Tasmania’s west coast are still expecting the National Broadband Network to be delivered to the region over FttN let alone FttP but are still awaiting final confirmation from the federal government that it will honour its election commitment.

The gurus at Juniper Research say users are rushing ‘to migrate from linear TV services’ which should see Netflix and Amazon revenues ‘more than double, reaching almost US$35 billion by 2021.’

Melbourne-based bus operator, SkyBus, which acquired Auckland Airbus in October last year, is using New Zealand’s Spark Digital, a subsidiary of telco Spark, to provide Wi-Fi to its Auckland Airport bus service.

The largest contingent ever of Australian students have returned from the Houston Association for Space and Science Education (HASSE) Space School in the US.

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