The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has asked NBN users who experience slow speeds to check with their providers whether they are eligible for a refund in line with agreements that the watchdog negotiated with providers over the last 15 months.

Judicial oversight of new surveillance powers and clearly defined limits on agencies’ Notices top the list of a raft of changes recommended to the Federal Government for its encryption legislation by a broad coalition of Australia’s telecommunications, IT and internet industries.

The Australian National Audit Office has slammed the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission over the failure of a biometric identity project, contracted out to NEC Australia, that had to be junked after more than two years and expenditure of $34 million.

Indian outsourcing giant Infosys has introduced a series of big data and analytics, artificial intelligence as well as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) based experiences at the Australian open tennis championships.

The Commonwealth Bank has announced that Apple Pay will be available to use with personal debit and credit cards from CBA and Bankwest from today (Wednesday, 23 January).

Business software vendor Infor has announced an agreement that will see its two major shareholders inject another US$1.5 billion into the company ahead of a planned IPO.

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