The introduction of driverless vehicles onto Australian roads is predicted to be a major game-changer for the insurance industry.

Banking and investment services CIOs are increasingly convinced that their old business models and existing value propositions will not be sustainable in the future, according to a new global survey.

Companies developing new ways to diagnose cancer, next generation WiFi chips and quantum computing firmware are among the first to receive investment from Main Sequence Ventures, manager of the $200 million CSIRO Innovation Fund.

Although Exetel is the first Optus Wholesale customer to offer the "Home Wireless Broadband" router, the company clearly expects more of its MVNOs to offer such a service.

A reader wrote in with a curiously amusing reply from the NBN regarding the availability for NBN for that reader's home, with the NBN available for a neighbour, but not available for our reader.

Telco Vodafone Australia and big-data aggregator Splunk have entered a multi-year Enterprise Software and Services Agreement which the telco says will improve user experience.

The telecommunications industry has widely endorsed a new market study released yesterday by the ACCC, with some describing it as a milestone in shaping future telecoms regulation.

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