Australian spending on technology products and services in 2022 will exceed $111 billion, technology analyst firm Gartner has forecast, with this representing an increase of 6.3% from the year that just ended.



German open-source firm Suse has announced it will be releasing Liberty Linux, a distribution that is intended to fill the gap left by CentOS, a business-focused distribution that was killed off by its owner Red Hat in December 2020.

Google has launched a second appeal, this time in the EU's highest court, against a fine of €2.42 billion ($3.79 billion) levied on it and its parent company Alphabet in 2017 for abusing its dominant market position for online general search services in 13 EU countries.

Education software provider Tribal Group has scored two contract wins. It will continue to support and develop the Calista Group of universities' student management system, and the University of Waikato has adopted the Tribal Student Marketing and Recruitment system.

AIOps developer Monq Lab raises $1.5 million seed round led by Veeam co-founder Ratmir Timashev, which will fund marketing and sales expansion in North America and Europe and the Middle East.

Vodafone has switched on the UK’s first 5G OpenRAN. The site in Bath is the first of 2,500 5G and 4G OpenRAN sites that Vodafone has committed to, and a major step in supporting the UK government’s ambition to accelerate the development of the OpenRAN ecosystem.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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