Independent telecommunications challenger, Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, today commenced commercial operations for its 15,000 km fibre optic deep-sea cable linking Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and United States.

Software giant Microsoft has ended the fiscal year 2018 with a bang, with the final quarter bringing in revenue of US$30.1 billion, an increase of 17% over the corresponding quarter in the previous financial year and pushing annual revenues to more than $100 billion.

A security researcher has asked British Airways to explain why its online check-in page leaks booking references and surnames to a number of third parties, among them Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Doubleclick.

A member of auDA, the Australian organisation that administers the .au namespace, claims that the membership of the organisation is now dominated by foreigners after 900 employees of several registrars were signed up.

Point of sale payments provider Eftpos has appointed former Mastercard Australia and New Zealand chief Leigh Clapham as chairman.

Multinational healthcare diagnostics company Laboratory Corporation of America — better known as LabCorp — suffered a ransomware attack which hit one of its genetic-testing units over the last weekend.

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