| Today on iTWire | This Afternoon Google announces Android Wear 2.0 Written by Ray Shaw Android Wear is to wearables like smartwatches, as Android is to smartphones -- it underpins both form and functionality. Google has announced Android Wear 2.0… Read more... Startups accepted into latest muru-D cohort Written by Peter Dinham Telstra’s startup accelerator program muru-D has accepted new startups into its fourth Sydney cohort including Nano satellites that monitor crop health, cameras that map the… Read more... Confusion over broadband speeds rife among consumers Written by Peter Dinham Australian consumers believe they are getting a raw deal from their Internet service providers over the speed of their broadband services, with most of them… Read more... Galaxy S8 to have smaller battery than Note7: report Written by Sam Varghese The Samsung Galaxy S8 will have a smaller capacity battery than the ill-fated Note7 which literally went down in flames. Read more... Toshiba expands battery recall Written by Ray Shaw Toshiba Australia has announced an extension of its global voluntary recall to replace the lithium-ion battery packs for some of its notebooks sold between June… Read more... Microsoft, Google and Amazon gave cash for Trump inauguration Written by Sam Varghese Big US technology companies Amazon, Google and Microsoft donated both cash and services to the ceremonies around the swearing-in of US President Donald Trump on… Read more... US may demand social media details from some Muslims Written by Sam Varghese Citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, who were subject to US travel bans last month, may have to provide their social media passwords if they wish… Read more... openSUSE news website compromised Written by Sam Varghese One of the websites belonging to the openSUSE project, a SUSE Linux-supported organisation that develops a community Linux distribution, was defaced earlier this week. Read more... IoT devices set to cross 8b mark this year: Gartner Written by Doron Beer New research forecasts that 8.4 billion connected devices will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31% from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by… Read more... New undersea cable to deliver ‘highest capacity’ Internet between US and Australia Written by Peter Dinham Surveying of the seafloor between the Sydney beachside suburb of Clovelly to Los Angeles is about to get underway in preparation for laying of the… Read more... Tyro, Afterpay team up on ‘buy now pay later’ deal for consumers Written by Peter Dinham Payments provider Tyro is partnering with digital payment solutions company Afterpay in a deal which will see Afterpay’s deferred payment plans spread across thousands of… Read more... Inmarsat, Actility partner to deliver global IoT network Written by Peter Dinham Global mobile satellite communications services company Inmarsat has partnered with Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWA) provider Actility to develop what it claims is the… Read more... MyNetFone lures SMBs with communications ‘health check’ Written by Peter Dinham In the increasingly competitive telecommunications and broader communications market, VoIP provider MyNetFone is enticing customers with the offer to SMBs of a free service to… Read more... This Morning Ex-NSA contractor indicted over theft of documents Written by Sam Varghese An NSA contractor, who was arrested in August last year on charges of illegally copying and removing confidential documents from the agency, has been indicted… Read more... US firms may be free to buy 'conflict minerals' from warlords Written by Sam Varghese A leaked draft of a memorandum that US President Donald Trump is expected to sign in coming days will temporarily block a rule that prevents… Read more... Intel announces US$7b factory from Oval Office, credits Trump Written by Doron Beer Dominant PC chip manufacturer Intel today announced a US$7 billion investment in a new semiconductor plant. The announcement was made from the White House Oval… Read more... Samsung Galaxy A series (2017) – an affordable Galaxy not so far, far away Written by Ray Shaw Samsung has released a mid-range Galaxy A series that has inherited much of what made the Galaxy S6 and S7 the best-selling Android flagship phones… Read more... NBN Co cops a whacking from Fiber Corp officials Written by Sam Varghese Two officials of the Sydney-based Fiber Corp have put the boot into NBN Co following the announcement of the latter company's second-quarter results today. Read more... Valentine’s scams – watch out on 14 February Written by Ray Shaw If you are desperate and dateless (D&D) have cyber criminals got a deal for you, particularly if you are feeling lonely this Valentine’s day, Tuesday… Read more... ‘Last nail in coffin’ for NBN and FttN rollout, claims Patton Written by Peter Dinham Internet Australia chief executive Laurie Patton says the latest report on the National Broadband Network, showing losses of $1.8 billion, heralds the “last nail in… Read more... Sponsored Announcements ‘Realising business value’ from IT a key for leading IT executive Sean Elwick, St Vincent's Health group IT Director of Transformation, is a man who, by his own admission, is passionate about realising business value from… Read more... Next Telecom wins Australian Gold Customer Service Award again Sydney Monday 6th February 2017: Next Telecom Pty Ltd, one of Australia’s premier (IP) Voice and Data service providers for businesses, today announced it has… Read more... BizData announces natural language collaboration with Narrative Science At BizData, we pride ourselves in selecting only the most innovative technology vendors that will help our customers unlock the total value of Power BI.… Read more... Border security, key IT industry issues under the microscope at the 7th annual CIO Leaders Australian Summit 2017 The international perspective, and the issue of border security for countries like Australia, will be front and centre at this year’s 7th annual CIO Leaders… Read more... Cyber security takes centre stage at the CISO Leaders Summit 2017 in Melbourne Australia’s private and government sectors, like their counterparts around the world, are under constant threat from cyber security attacks. Read more... Yellowfin Connectors enable businesses to view and share data from third-party applications to make better data-driven decisions Easy plug-In connectors end data silos and eliminate the need to log-in and query multiple applications Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor Yellowfin,… Read more... |
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