NBN Co has attempted to defend the higher costs of deploying FTTP in Australia and “set the record straight” on recent media claims about the cost of FTTP compared to other operators around the world.

If the recent Medicare card episode does anything it should make the Australian Government stop and think - and realise that its push to have public data available on the Internet is going to lead to data breaches down the line.

Optus has teamed up with National Geographic to offer its entire suite of content — magazines, TV, photographs, Instagram feed and more — free of charge and at zero data charge to Optus post-paid customers.

The Australian Taxation Office says its systems are back online after a disruption on Wednesday afternoon.

IoT is the future, even if we worry it’s the Internet of hackable and crackable things, but which standard will win - Sigfox, LoRaWAN, NB-IOT or something else? It’s a $40 billion low power IoT arms race.

A partnership between Baidu and Nvidia will see the Chinese web services company applying Nvdia GPUs to provide AI in a range of products and services.

Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky's offer to allow the US government to inspect the source code of his products will not ensure it is free of malicious functions, according to an analysis posted by Rendition Infosec, a security company founded and run by ex-NSA employee Jake William

The EU is contemplating another record fine against Google over how it pays and limits mobile phone providers who use the search company's Android mobile operating system and app store.

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