Demand for executives in the ICT sector has remained strong in June, despite the long federal election, the UK vote to exit the EU and a rising Australian dollar all weighing heavily on business confidence, according to the latest EL Consult executive demand index.

A dispute has erupted between rival data centre operators NextDC and Metronode over which company was the first to have one of their Australian data centres certified – and operating – with the highly prized Nabers 4.5 star level energy rating.

Blockchain makes people think of bitcoin, but its distributed ledger nature means its uses are far and wide, and that even includes reducing piracy. On that score, a video distribution start-up is using blockchain to reduce piracy by 80%.

Spirit Telecom, a telecommunications carriage service provider (TCSP) that uses other key carriers infrastructure to market ultra-fast Internet access and telephony services, is re-listing on the ASX. Spirit is focused on supplying fibre-based broadband services to multi-dwelling user locations.

Chat is the next big digital disruption that may reduce traditional telcos' revenue even more – many non-telco companies are jostling to become your sole, universal communications connection.

Australian global cloud­-based recruitment platform JobAdder has placed a dedicated resource in Scotland in a move designed to help the company cope with growing demand for its services in the European and UK markets.

The number of users of openSUSE, the community GNU/Linux distribution supported by the Germany SUSE Linux company, has grown, with an average of 400,000 DVD images being downloaded each month.

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