About 200,000 homes and businesses which were classed as "ready to connect" in November 2017 by the NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, have gone missing from this category of dwellings according to the company's own figures.

The Federal Government is set to trial a new visa scheme in an attempt to attract highly skilled global talent and deliver innovation to Australia with a pilot program to be launched from 1 July.

Chinese AWS rival Alibaba Cloud opened the doors at its first data centre in Indonesia last week, to meet what it says are the the growing digital transformation in the country.

Optus will offer a free service to all athletes at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games allowing them to speak to family and friends around the world via Wi-Fi and instore tablets at its store in the athletes' village.

Japan's NEC Corporation and the Southeast Asia-Japan 2 consortium (SJC2) have signed an agreement for the former to build a 144Tbps high-performance submarine cable connecting Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Korea and Japan.

The increasing use of "robots" or "chatbots" in the delivery of advertising, online engagement and social media to facilitate sales for SMEs across the country has arrived - how long will it be before you join the robot revolution?

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