National broadband network operator NBN Co has announced the extension of its fibre network rollout, with the second tranche to pass 100,000 premises on the way to the goal of 2 million premises with fibre by the end of 2023.



With 2020 the year from hell, what is the future of data storage post COVID in 2021 and beyond? Where are the wins? Where are the landmines?

Chris Althaus is still CEO of AMTA, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association, and he has put together his top five tips that encourage safe Internet use on the mobile devices we all own and take for granted every day.

The NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, says it has exceeded both revenue and EBITDA for the first half of the current financial year, which could put it in a position to achieve positive full-year results for the first time. Losses fell from $2.817 billion for the first six months of 2019 to $2.113 billion for the first six months of the current financial year.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO has cut a deal with Australian behemoth Harvey Norman to stock its devices across the country.

The Department of Justice under new US President Joe Biden has decided to continue its bid to seek the extradition of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from the UK, according to a report from Kevin Gosztola, a freelance journalist who has his own site on Substack.

Ex-NSA hacker and former owner of security company Immunity, Dave Aitel, has launched a fresh salvo of tweets against a book published by New York Times cyber security reporter Nicole Perlroth, after securing and reading a copy of the tome which was published on Tuesday US time.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission has warned power lines company Horizon Energy for contravening its network quality standards through an excessive level of power outages in the 2017 and 2018 years.

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Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Afternoon Newsletter Editor, iTWire


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