Retail giant Coles has adopted Cradlepoint's NetCloud with 5G to provide wireless WAN services to all stores and new distribution centres.



Former NSW premier Bob Carr has taken aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over the delay in the US freeing WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, questioning why, if a request has been refused, the PM has not asked the US a second time.

Swedish telecommunications vendor Ericsson has deployed Intel’s 18A process and manufacturing technology for its future next-generation optimised 5G infrastructure.

US energy provider Xcel Energy has tapped Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia to help modernise its grid operations and will deploy Nokia’s private LTE network technology to secure data connectivity and automation.

Saildrone is making a splash in autonomous oceanic monitoring. The startup’s nautical data collection technology has tracked hurricanes up close in the North Atlantic, discovered a 3,200-foot underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean and begun to help map the entirety of the world’s ocean floor.

Hitachi Vantara's Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Azure Stack HCI, launched in collaboration with Microsoft, promises enhanced cloud management of hybrid environments including data centres, branch offices and edge computing.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire