Tim Connell, a director of auDA, the organisation that looks after the Australian domain namespace, has resigned from the board, citing the approval of 955 foreign-based new members which he said potentially handed over control of the organisation to industry.

DOCSIS 3.1 is billed as "cutting edge cable broadband technology" that will "double downstream capacity on NBN Co Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) network" and it is finally being enabled.

ASD-certified Protected cloud provider Vault Systems has lost its role as cloud host of the Govpass ID system, with the government's Digital Transformation Agency deciding instead that the Australian Taxation Office and the Department of Human Services would assume responsibility for hosting the components of the digital identity system.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has started an inquiry into regulation of wholesale mobile voice and SMS services – and whether to vary or revoke the domestic mobile terminating access service (MTAS) declaration or to make a new declaration.

Nuance has announced the cloud-powered Dragon Anywhere for Android and iOS mobile devices in Australia, delivering the "powerful, professional productivity features of Dragon desktop speech recognition to these devices".

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