| Today on iTWire | This Afternoon Microsoft finds Asia office workers do not feel empowered Written by Sam Varghese A Microsoft Asia Workplace 2020 study has found that employees do not feel ready for the digital age and want more access to newer and… Read more... NBN: Wooden-faced Cormann turns down free, good advice Written by Sam Varghese Politicians have a big problem when it comes to accepting good advice from people whom they deem to be on the other side of the… Read more... iSelect goes live with Aspect customer engagement platform Written by Peter Dinham Australian-based online comparison website iSelect is claiming a world-first with its newly deployed Aspect customer engagement centre platform going live. Read more... Freestyle Technology wins water metering contract in South Korea Written by Stephen Withers IoT vendor Freestyle Technology is supplying the South Korean Municipality of Gochang with a multimillion dollar water metering and management system. Read more... Intel cancels developer forum, OpenStack funding Written by Sam Varghese Intel has cancelled its Intel Developer Forum tradeshow, including the one scheduled for the US summer this year. Read more... H-1B visa applications down for first time in four years Written by Sam Varghese Changes made by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to the criteria for granting H-1B visas appear to have had an effect, with the… Read more... Toshiba Portégé X20 – a lightweight heavyweight (review) Written by Ray Shaw At 1.1kg, 15.4mm thin, with a 12.5” HD touch screen, Wacom AES pen, and choice of Intel Kaby Lake Core i5 or i7 mobile processors… Read more... Galaxy S8 unlikely to be an iPhone killer: Kantar Written by Sam Varghese The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are unlikely to be iPhone killers if past statistics are any guide, Lauren Guenveur, consumer insight director for… Read more... Android holds position in China, iOS reigns in US Written by Sam Varghese Android's share of the urban China market in the three months ending February 2017 was more than at any time in the previous year, with… Read more... This Morning Whitford joins Superloop from Vocus Written by Peter Dinham Dark fibre connectivity and digital services provider Superloop has drawn former Vocus senior executive Dan Whitford to its management ranks to take up the position… Read more... ICT exec demand increases 30% over two months Written by Peter Dinham The ICT sector has led the way for all other business and industry sectors in March, with executive job demand rising by 4% following a… Read more... Aussies take to online shopping with gusto as Amazon prepares to launch Written by Peter Dinham The conditions couldn’t be riper for the much-vaunted launch of ecommerce giant Amazon in the Australian market, according to new research which shows online shopping… Read more... Inabox weighs in on industry dissatisfaction with data retention laws Written by Peter Dinham Australia’s new data retention laws have been labelled as rubbish, and even anti-competitive, by wholesale telecommunications and IT services group Inabox. Read more... HTC U Ultra – beauty and brains (review) Written by Ray Shaw The beautiful, big HTC U Ultra is part of HTC’s strategy to regain its premium position and it does a good job in a very… Read more... Microsoft claims Shadow Brokers' NSA exploits fixed in March updates Written by Sam Varghese Reacting to the release of Windows exploits by the hacker group Shadow Brokers, Microsoft has issued a statement that its March patches fixed all critical… Read more... Windows users at risk as Shadow Brokers dumps NSA exploits Written by Sam Varghese The hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has released a number of what it says are NSA exploits for Windows systems and details of what… Read more... 20 million unit milestone for Epson's ink tank range Written by Stephen Withers Epson has sold 20 million of its high-capacity ink tank inkjet printers in less than seven years. Read more... Today is National Get a VPN Day Written by Stephen Withers Marking the deadline for telecommunications and Internet service providers to comply with the Commonwealth Government's telecommunications metadata retention requirements, EFA and other online rights organisations… Read more... Microsoft dials up Surface Studio Written by Ray Shaw Microsoft has announced that new applications including CorelDRAW, Autodesk’s SketchBook, Silicon Bender’s Sketchable, and Algoriddim’s djay Pro have added Surface Dial capabilities to their software. Read more... Microsoft starts rollout of Windows 10 Creators Update Written by Ray Shaw The Windows 10 Creators Update has started rolling out in Australia, first to Surface, later third-party devices, and soon to all. Read more... Xbox 'Porsche' more into Forza Written by Ray Shaw Microsoft’s Turn 10 Studios has announced a six-year partnership to collaborate on a suite of co-branded initiatives for Porsche and the Xbox Forza game franchise. Read more... Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital embraces Dynamics 365 Written by Ray Shaw Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital has embraced Microsoft’s cloud-based Dynamics 365 CRM to manage the individual and complex health needs of 1070 children enrolled in Queensland’s… Read more... City Beach goes digital – 1011011101 Written by Ray Shaw Iconic Australian fashion retailer City Beach has completed stage one of its “digital transformation”. Read more... Symantec links use of Vault 7 cyber espionage tools to 'Longhorn' Written by Ray Shaw Cyber security company Symantec has found spying and hacking tools and operational protocols detailed in the recent Vault 7 leak have been used in cyber… Read more... Data retention laws still 'bad law', says IA Written by Peter Dinham Australia’s new data retention laws nominally come into effect tomorrow — Good Friday — but Internet Australia still maintains the scheme is unlikely to fully… Read more... Citizen band radio users get reprieve on equipment upgrades Written by Peter Dinham Citizen band (CB) radio users will not have to upgrade older-style 40 channel equipment following a review by the regulator of a prohibition that was… Read more... Ian Chappell to be ambassador for sports prediction app Written by Sam Varghese A sports prediction network known as SportsHero has added cricket to its app, and recruited former Australian cricket captain Ian Chappell as its first global… Read more... Sponsored Announcements How to avoid that next storage hardware refresh By Greg Wyman, Vice President Asia Pacific, ioFabric Read more... How StorageCraft allows IntegrateIT to give REAL customer service When Michael White and Matthew Dean founded IntegrateIT Australia in 2012 after experiencing IT providers that were sales driven rather than focused on customer care,… Read more... CSA ACHIEVES ISO 27001 CERTIFICATION FOR INFORMATION SECURITY CSA (Computer Systems Australia) has announced that it has achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification, the international standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). Meeting the extensive… Read more... WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO FORMALISE YOUR IT SKILLS In an industry as qualified and competitive as IT, finding a way to remain in demand can seem like a moonshot, but what if we… Read more... 5 STEPS TO SUCCESS: TAKE THE MIGRAINE OUT OF DATA CENTRE MIGRATION By Simon Cooper, Chief Operating Officer, NEXTDC Outsourcing your data centre service to a purpose-built facility offers greater efficiency, reliability and security. It also opens… Read more... Yellowfin recognized as a Challenger in BARC’s 2016 Score Business Intelligence report Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has been identified as a Challenger in the Business Application Research Center’s (BARC) 2016 Score Business… Read more... |
| |
