Australia's second largest telecommunications company, Optus, will have to take a second-row seat behind Telstra for a while in the ad claims race for being the best mobile network in the country, with a judge yesterday telling the telco it would have to hold off on ads pushing this claim.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency is set to spend $7 million on testing how solar parks, wind farms or enabling technologies such as batteries, can provide grid stability and security services.

On-demand employment marketplaces seem all the rage, with A/NZ-based Sidekicker stating it's "leading the way in developing and implementing a benefits program called ‘Unleash’ for its 11,000+ casual employees known as 'Sidekicks'".

Australian tech start-up Teleportivity has launched its updated comm-tech platform at CeBIT 2018, which "captures the effectiveness of face-to-face communication by connecting users to a human operator through digital screens" so businesses can redistribute staff to any location instantaneously.

Australian consumers and their counterparts throughout Asia Pacific are flocking to the Internet to shop online in increasing numbers, despite the risks of suffering attacks by fraudsters.

Shellharbour City Council in New South Wales has gone live with a new technology platform from IT solutions provider Thomas Duryea Logicalis specifically designed for the Shellhabour Civic Centre.

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