| Hi John, The first employee of Australia's Academic and Research Network, Geoff Huston, played a pivotal role in setting up the Internet in this country 30 years ago. He believes the Internet has become a toxic wasteland with inadequate security.
Telecommunications equipment vendors Nokia and Ericsson may be forced to move a good part of their operations out of China if a proposed move by the US, to make it mandatory that an 5G equipment used within the country be designed and made outside China, comes into force.
When people come to the point where they consider the use of the word "bull***t" as abuse, things have indeed come to a pretty pass. The British tech website, The Register, apparently considers that Linux creator Linus Torvalds must only use honorifics and sees his use of this word as good reason to write 600 words in the hope of clicks.
A lone individual, Robert Elz, managed the domain name system for the .au domain from the time Australia hooked up to the Internet until he was forced to pass it over to a the current organisation, auDA, in 2001.
Controversial American security firm CrowdStrike did not provide an unredacted or final report to the FBI after it was called in to examine the servers at the Democratic National Committee that were hacked in 2016 and which led to claims of Russian interference in the US presidential election of the same year.
Online retailer Kogan is launching a new service under a new brand – Kogan Energy – in partnership with Powershop to offer what it says will be competitive power and gas services to Australian households. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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Stan Beer, Editor, iTWire
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