Hi John, When the new Federal Government took power in May this year, it promised several new initiatives; it has delivered on some of them and looks set to keep on providing what it promised.
Ecovacs Robotics has delivered a real game-changer with the most advanced robot vacuum cleaner yet in the X1 Omni - a personal cleaning butler that obeys your voice commands, delivers an incredible clean, and then takes itself back to base for its own cleaning, emptying, and charging all ready to run again.
MyDeal, a subsidiary of supermarket giant Woolworths Group, has suffered a data breach, with compromised user credentials being used to gain access to the company's customer relationship management system.
Optus customers, whose passport numbers were exposed in the catastrophic breach suffered by the telco, do not need to get the documents replaced, Optus says in a statement to the Singapore Stock Exchange.
The world's arguably richest man Elon Musk wants the US military to pay for the ongoing costs incurred by the Ukraine's use of the Starlink satellite internet service provided by his company SpaceX.
Scams reported worldwide increased by 10.2%, from 266 in 2020 to 293 million reports in 2021, with the latest study by the Global Anti Scam Alliance revealing the money lost in scams grew by 15,7%, from $47.8 billion in 2020 to $55.3 billion in 2021. The Australian Federal Police was unaware of a huge leak of Colombian government documents, which contained information about their operations to prevent international drug cartels from operating Down Under, until they informed about it by newspapers owned by Nine Entertainment.
Medical insurer Medibank Group says it has isolated some customer-facing systems following the discovery of a breach of its systems.
Virtual machine solutions provider Kalibr8 has launched its Cloud Optimisation Loop to managed service providers in Australia through a partnership with cloud-first technology distributor Cloud Ready.
Australian telco TPG Telecom will offer free calls to Iran and Pakistan for the next seven days to those who are using its main brands: Vodafone, TPG, iiNet, Internode, Lebara, Westnet and Kogan.
Analyst firm Gartner has identified three factors influencing growth in security spending.
Indian IT spending is set to grow by 13.8% year-on-year in 2022, the technology analyst firm IDC says, adding that this was down from 25.3% in 2021. And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com. Stan Beer,, newsletter editor, iTWire
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