The My Health Record system may well end up as one of the many Australian Government tech wrecks, the former head of the country's Digital Transformation Agency, Paul Shetler, says, adding that if he were Australian he would probably opt out himself.

Two US politicians have written to the heads of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and Amazon asking them to reconsider their decisions to prohibit domain-fronting, something that is used to avoid Internet censorship.

Australia’s second largest telco Optus has installed more than 1,200 Bluetooth beacons inside Perth’s Optus Stadium which will deliver visitors a newly enhanced stadium app.

Interconnection and data centre company Equinix has announced plans for the rollout of its Cloud Exchange Fabric (EXC Fabric) capabilities across the Asia Pacific which it says will help Australian businesses establish interconnection and networking capabilities with the South East Asia region.

Mobile employee engagement solutions provider StaffConnect has released a new version of its engagement platform which it says is designed to improve employee engagement and job satisfaction and access to all of the resources needed to do their jobs.

Rising seas may inundate thousands of kilometres of buried fibre optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the US in as little as 15 years due to climate change, a study has warned.

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