The Australian Labor Government in 2009 appears to have considered Telstra its main obstacle to setting up a company that would build a national broadband network for the country.

By George, Huawei Australia has a new CEO, Huang Ji, whose anglicised name is George Huang, and whose appointment follows recent anti-Huawei moves by the US and Australian governments.

Ecommerce platform BigCommerce has selected cloud delivery provider Akamai to deliver its Image Manager solution to its 55,000-plus BigCommerce stores around the world.

A new report on innovation is putting pressure on the Australian Government to get on board with a number of sweeping recommendations concerning education and training.

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has commended the breadth of recommendations in support of building Australia’s innovation capability through education and training in the new plan released by Innovation and Science Australia.

In addition, the Australian Computer Society has joined other industry bodies in welcoming the Australia 2030 report on innovation from Innovation and Science Australia and called on Government and Industry to embrace the recommendations.

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