Latest data from Kantar shows consumers are making the most of reduced COVID restrictions, allowing for a more personalised in-store smartphone purchasing experience, although in-store shopping experiences are something many people are finding challenging in Australia due to ongoing COVID lockdowns that either continue or have ended but could start up again at any time.



Researchers from the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science have found that ethnicity and race are factors whether a software project or contributions may be accepted or rejected, with researchers also noting that the majority of contributions were developers perceptible as white.

Storage solutions company Greenliant introduces the ArmourDrive PX and EX series SSDs, which are ideal for write intensive applications that require data retention and endurance. Greenliant says the SSDs are suited for industrial, medical, networking, and transportation applications.

Telstra has announced that it is now offering Disney+ on Telstra TV.

Australian semiconductor start-up Morse Micro says it is sampling its Wi-Fi HaLow chips to product developers to evaluate and test the solution. By making the HaLow chips available, Morse Micro also adds it expects to see Wi-Fi reach billions of devices.

Artificial intelligence solutions provider SenSen Networks recorded cash receipts from customers in the fourth quarter 2021 of $1.6 million, which it says is the highest quarterly cash receipts since listing, and $200,000 more than in Q4 2020.

Uniphore announced its agreement to acquire Jacada, a customer experience pioneer with a low code/no code platform for contact centre automation.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today announced beta availability of the Signal Sciences agent on the Fastly edge cloud platform. This represents a critical milestone toward Fastly's vision of empowering developers to protect apps and APIs in every environment—cloud, on-premise, hybrid and now at the network edge.

COMPANY NEWS: Accounting automation software leader BlackLine and Kyriba, a global leader of cloud-based finance and IT solutions, today announced that they are joining forces to streamline the digitalisation of the office of the CFO and improve collaboration between finance and treasury departments.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire



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