| Today on iTWire | This Morning Report: iPhone 7 burns in car at Australian beach Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Last week, Channel 7 News reported an iPhone 7 burst into flames in a car under clothes at a beach in Australia. Read more... Ericsson’s US$26 million quarterly loss in post-4G, pre-5G environment Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Although 5G is what many are banking on, tough competition from Huawei and Nokia and a post-4G and pre-5G world sees Ericsson making a loss… Read more... VIDEOS: AT&T to acquire Time Warner for US$85 billion in major media/comms shakeup Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Remember when AT&T was broken up in the US? Whether you do, or don’t, AT&T is on the verge of becoming the most powerful telco… Read more... Fairfax sends Melbourne Cup Web traffic to Sydney Written by Sam Varghese Horse racing fans who follow links on Google looking for Melbourne Cup news on Fairfax websites this year will be directed to the site of… Read more... Collaboration will boost Australian research with $5 million in new funds Written by Peter Dinham Over $5 million in new investment funding will be used to develop services for Australian researchers in fields including climate, medical, terrestrial and marine environments,… Read more... Conservation SA conserving energy with ZCell battery installation Written by Peter Dinham South Australia’s peak environmental organisation, Conservation SA, has installed two ZCell batteries to charge an electric car and to provide energy for emergency lighting and… Read more... Aussie businesses 'fall short' behind international counterparts as innovators Written by Peter Dinham Australian businesses are lagging behind their international counterparts as innovators, according to new research which shows that many Aussie firms are just making improvements to… Read more... Canonical announces live kernel patching for Ubuntu Written by Sam Varghese Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has announced that it will provide a live kernel patching services for version 16.04 which was released… Read more... Spectrum up for grabs at ACMA auction Written by Peter Dinham The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released a consultation paper on its proposal to auction off spectrum that remained unsold after the 700… Read more... IBM official says Macs much cheaper to own than Windows PCs Written by Sam Varghese One of IBM's vice-presidents, Fletcher Previn, has made the claim that Macs are three times cheaper to own than Windows PCs. Read more... DVRs, security cams used in massive DDoS attack Written by Sam Varghese Digital video recorders and security cameras in the main have been used in a distributed denial of service to disrupt a number of high-profile websites,… Read more... Bioshock: The Collection – a remastered return to classic game-play Written by Mike Bantick Unabashedly we are fans of games with the Bioshock brand, and now we get the opportunity to play through the nightmarish worlds unleashed by 2K… Read more... Linux kernel bug being exploited in the wild Written by Sam Varghese A privilege-escalation bug in the Linux kernel, that could allow any application to gain root-level access and take over a device, has been present in… Read more... Telstra digital chief now Tyro top man Written by Peter Dinham Former Telstra digital chief Gerd Schenkel is the new boss of payments processing company Tyro, taking over from founder and largest shareholder Jost Stollmann. Read more... Union says Note7 returns danger to postal workers Written by Sam Varghese The union that represents postal workers has asked Australia Post what steps it has taken to ensure that workers who handle packages containing returned Samsung… Read more... Friday Afternoon NBN Co tells world broadband forum of need for faster rollout to meet deadlines Written by Peter Dinham NBN Co chief network and operations officer JB Rousselot has told the Broadband World Forum in London that the company needs to move faster in… Read more... US claims Booz Allen employee stole 50TB of data Written by Sam Varghese An NSA contractor will be charged with violating the US Espionage Act on Friday US time, with federal prosecutors in Baltimore saying he carried away… Read more... ITCRA, APSco Global merge to form new recruitment industry group Written by Peter Dinham The Information Technology Contract & Recruitment Association (ITCRA) has merged with the Association of Professional Staffing Companies Global (APSCo Global) to form a new organisation… Read more... Samsung resists paying for Note7 fire damages Written by Sam Varghese Some owners of faulty Samsung Galaxy Note7s are furious that the South Korean electronics giant has refused to cover the costs of fire damage, caused… Read more... Optus Satellite secures deal with Aeeris Written by Peter Dinham Optus Satellite has inked an agreement with Aeeris, the developer, operator and provider of the Early Warning Network (EWN) that will support remote worker solutions… Read more... Video: Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement trailer Written by Mike Bantick Time for re-redemption, Rockstar Games releases the trailer for a sequel (or for those actually counting, the fourth in the franchise) to one of its… Read more... Census 2016: Vocus lays blame on IBM employees Written by Sam Varghese Vocus Communications has hit back at IBM's claims that it was complicit in the 2016 census debacle, saying that the site went down because IBM… Read more... Census 2016: Nextgen hits back at IBM claims Written by Sam Varghese Nextgen Networks has hit back at IBM's claims that it was to blame for the census stuff-up, saying that its offer of protection against distributed… Read more... Census 2016: IBM blames Nextgen, Vocus for stuff-up Written by Sam Varghese IBM has laid the blame on Nextgen Networks, and, through it, Vocus Communications, for the collapse of the census website on 9 August, claiming that… Read more... Game Review: WRC 6 Written by Mike Bantick You don’t play a World Rally Championship game to relax. This iteration of the officially sanctioned WRC video game is a white-knuckle concentration fest that… Read more... Sponsored Announcements Yellowfin top ranked for Usability in Ventana Research’s 2016 Mobile BI Value Index Yellowfin ranked first for product Usability and customer Validation, and third overall, in the 2016 Ventana Research Mobile BI Value Index Global Business Intelligence (BI)… Read more... Yellowfin named a Leader in fourth consecutive Nucleus Research Value Matrix for Business Intelligence & Analytics Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has been identified as a ‘Leader’ in Nucleus Research’s 2016 Technology Value Matrix for Business Intelligence… Read more... Yellowfin “consistently top-ranked” for Innovation, Collaborative BI and ease-of-use: BARC’s The BI Survey 16 Yellowfin’s Business Intelligence solution has ranked first – in its assigned Peer Groups – for ‘Innovation’ five years in a row, ‘Collaboration’ four years in… Read more... BI vendor Yellowfin ramps momentum in Asia Pacific with seven additional channel partners Singapore and Australia, Friday 7th, October, 2016 – Yellowfin, a global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, today announced it has signed agreements with… Read more... MGTS appointed to distribute NX Witness in Australia Network Optix, America’s fastest growing software company, has appointed MGTS as a distributor for Nx Witness in the Australian market. Read more... Focused alliance pays customer loyalty dividends for ICT Networks and Juniper Networks A highly focused, long-term alliance between Sydney-based ICT Networks and Juniper Networks continues to yield dividends in terms of customer loyalty driving business expansion. Read more... |
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