Tech industry trade association CompTIA is offering free training and certification exam vouchers for its CompTIA IT Fundamentals(ITF+) credential to Australian and New Zealand citizens, including “career changers, displaced workers and students” - or anyone interested in learning more about the fundamentals of information communications technology (ICT).
Telco Singtel Optus will acquire Australia's biggest mobile virtual network operator, having signed a deal to buy amaysim for $250 million, the company says, adding that it will also be launching a new digital brand Gomo which is aimed at providing simple plans and budget-friendly services.
The Software Freedom Conservancy, an organisation that helps promote, develop, improve and defend free and open source software, has asked Microsoft to resign from the Recording Industry Association of America after the RIAA forced the takedown of youtube-dl, a popular command-line script that can be used to download videos from YouTube and many other videos from the Internet, from GitHub, a code repository owned by Microsoft.
Ransomware attacks have grown massively in number over the last 12 months and these days most attacks on Windows systems are invariably through the use of this genre of malware.
IT spending across all industry sectors in Australia will grow by 3.6% to reach $95.8 billion in 2021, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that this follows an expected 2.8% decline in 2020.
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