| Today on iTWire | This Afternoon - ASIC workers join protest against database sale
 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
 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
 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 launch of second NBN satellite
 The launch of NBN Co's second Sky Muster satellite was delayed this morning, the company said today. Read more... - BadKernel affects one in every 16 Android devices – 100m+ affected
 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
 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 …
 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
 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...
This Morning - MUST-SEE KEYNOTE: Google launches Pixel, Pixel XL, Google Assistant, Google Home, Wi-Fi and more
 Once again, Google has thrown down the gauntlet to Apple, and has made the utmost effort to out-Apple Apple as much as it possibly can. Read more... - Major US east coast phone carriers hit by outage
 All major phone carriers on the east coast of the United States experienced outages of up to 45 minutes beginning at 11am local time on… Read more... - Andy Volard VIDEO: Telstra is Google’s exclusive Australian carrier for new Pixel phones
 Google has launched its two new Pixel phones, replacing the Nexus line, with some super high-end features to tempt as many iOS and other Android… Read more... - BI, analytics demand drives Qlik Australian growth
 The Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics market in Australia is growing strongly for BI provider Qlik. Outside the US and European markets, Australia now represents… Read more... - Advertising feeds into ‘unrealistic expectations’ of broadband by consumers: ACCC
 The consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has partially blamed the telecommunications industry’s own advertising for contributing to the unrealistic expectations of Internet… Read more... - Virtual Reality: VR hardware worth US$50+ billion by 2021, driven by gamers
 With gaming console-based VR headsets and technology to account for more than 50% of hardware revenues, they’ll interestingly make up only 27% of shipments as… Read more... - Dyson cuts down noise with latest Airblade hand dryer
 Dyson’s latest Airblade dryer is now 35% quieter, but doesn’t compromise on speed, hygiene or sound. Read more... - ACCC final tick of approval for Telstra SSU compliance
 Four years after signing a Structural Separation Agreement (SSU), Telstra has finally completed a remediation programme which brings its undertakings under the SSU into full… Read more... - Seagate’s new 8TB Backup Plus Hub
 Seagate has upped the personal storage ante to 8TB with the release of its Backup Plus Hub replete with two additional full-size USB 3.0 always on, charging… Read more... - Zenoss signs Optus for performance monitoring
 Optus has joined Telstra, University of South Australia and others in selecting Zenoss to provide end-to-end monitoring, service impact management and predictive analytics for its… Read more... - MNF secures 4G mobile deal wth Telstra Wholesale
 VoIP and cloud telecommunications services provider MNF Group has inked a virtual mobile network deal with Telstra Wholesale to begin offering mobile services across 3G… Read more... - Memory prices at a two-year high
 While memory — DRAM/V-NAND/Flash/SSD/NVMe — is just part of a computing device, it is skyrocketing in price with a 30% increase over the last quarter. Read more... - It is not how much data; it is how much is ROT
 At the recent Veritas information management conference, it was revealed that perhaps as much of 60% of unstructured data was redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT). Read more... - Telstra also trialling V2I and V2X tech with Cohda Wireless, eyes 5G, too
 Telstra and Cohda Wireless have "successfully trialled Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technology over Telstra’s 4G network in South Australia" on the way to V2X tech. Read more... - The Echofied Q&A guide to making better business, lifestyle and finance decisions
 A new Q&A expertise platform has launched to "empower consumers to make better decisions" regarding "home loans, super, legal, real estate, business, cars, insuranc"’ and… Read more...
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