While some sceptics still believe that wearable devices will forever remain a limited space, shipments of smartwatches grew globally by 53% in the third quarter year-on-year with Apple and Fitbit leading the way, according to tech analysis firm Counterpoint Research.

International bandwidth provider Southern Cross Cables has deployed network strategy and technology company Ciena's WaveLogic Ai tunable coherent optics and the 6500 T-series to cope with the increased demand for connectivity.

The human genome consists of seven billion DNA base pairs and it takes 100GB to represent the unique sequence for a person. Australian National University researchers have turned to the cloud to enable clinical applications.

Melbourne-based enterprise applications vendor Pronto Software’s managing director Chad Gates talked to iTWire about the latest additions and changes to Pronto Xi, the company's ERP system release 750.

New Zealand’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission says newly published key performance measures for the country’s electricity companies allow for stronger year-on-year comparisons across the sector as a whole and for individual lines companies.

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