The latest expansion for Blizzard Entertainment's collectible card game, Hearthstone, is almost upon us, with Showdown in the Badlands coming out on 14 November 2023.



Finnish telco vendor Nokia claimed it completed the first interoperability tests of 5G Standalone (SA) Packet Core’s User Plane Function (UPF) in the Sylva open-source cloud software environment, which was conducted at the Project Sylva Validation Centre in France, operated by partner Orange.

Workflow provider in film and digital production The Rebel Fleet has deployed digital infrastructure company Equinix’s services in its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Sydney and leveraged its Platform Equinix to get access to fibre, security, and colocation, as well as Equinix Fabric to connect all digital ecosystems such as major cloud service providers.

Subscription video on demand (SVOD) providers spent $324 million on Australian programs in the 2022–23 financial year, down from $335 million in 2021–22, but more Australian shows were available to audiences across streaming services, according to data from the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Australian audio brand BlueAnt has launched the X-3D Max Wireless Bluetooth speaker, featuring four active speaker drivers, each driven by their amplifier channel that delivers clearer sound.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire