Good afternoon readers, this is the final iTWire UPDATE for 2018. We will be back in the third week of January 2019. In the meantime, we would like to wish all of our readers and supporters all the very best for a happy and safe holidays break.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has fined Primus Telecommunications and iSelect $8400 apiece for telemarketing services to consumers after they had withdrawn their consent. Dodo Services was formally warned for a similar offence.

Australia’s technology sector registered the best result for November for executive employment demand, according to the latest report from recruitment firm EL Consult, with demand rising by 12% to redress losses in the prior two months.

The Australian Labor Party has questioned how the cost of the NBN Co's HFC build has increased by 64% since 2015, despite the fact that the number of premises being served by the technology has fallen by 37.5%.

Digital banking outfit Volt Bank has gone live on Swiss banking software provider Temenos' cloud, using the company's T24 core banking, financial crime mitigation and analytics.

The Commonwealth Bank will offer customers the use of the payment app Alipay on its Albert touchscreen device in-store from today.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University claim to have achieved better security by using human T cells to create encryption keys, and say these keys are extremely difficult to reverse engineer.

Peripherals manufacturer Logitech has released a new application, Logitech Capture, that can be used with three of its webcams — the C920, the C922 and the BRIO 4K Pro — to directly create video content.

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