| Today on iTWire | This Morning Nokia, Vodafone on track for Melbourne train system telecommunications upgrade Written by Peter Dinham The Victorian government is considering a market-led proposal to upgrade telecommunications on Melbourne’s train system to improve services and provide better information for passengers. Read more... USO Customer Service Guarantees ‘outdated’, says ACCAN Written by Peter Dinham The peak industry body looking after the interests of telecoms consumers, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), has welcomed the Productivity Commission’s report on… Read more... Broadspectrum to build radio network systems for New Zealand utility Powerco Written by Peter Dinham Infrastructure development services company Broadspectrum New Zealand, formerly Transfield, has been selected by electricity utility and gas distribution company Powerco to design and build a… Read more... Government to trial new tool to speed up Netflix content classification Written by Peter Dinham The federal government is piloting a new classification tool designed to streamline the process of classifying Netflix content and to make it easier for programmes… Read more... Finite contributes to Indigenous professional development programme Written by Peter Dinham The Finite Group of companies has completed its participation in a new Indigenous training initiative which delivered a one-week professional development programme in project management… Read more... Nicolas Aidoud – a very French CEO for a very French company Written by Ray Shaw While most of us would like a “month en Provence”, Nicolas Aidoud has packed up his wife and two boys to spend a life in… Read more... Pearcey Awards recognise Australian innovation Written by Ray Shaw The Peacey National Awards recognise outstanding achievement in Australian ICT. The Pearcey Medal was awarded to Stephen Baxter, and the Pearcey Hall of Fame inducted… Read more... Wednesday Afternoon Verizon selected for Government’s inaugural telecoms services panel Written by Peter Dinham US telco and global communications giant Verizon has been included on a new federal government telecommunications services panel with six other services providers. Read more... Corporate VC funding growing, says Telstra report Written by Sam Varghese Investment by the venture capital arms of big corporations is growing and should reach a little more than a third of all total global venture… Read more... ICM and Vedaleon merge to strengthen aviation services business Written by Peter Dinham Australian-based self-service bag drop solutions vendor ICM Airport Technics has merged with Vedaleon Technologies, an aviation software solutions provider. Read more... A new era of cybercrime – Symantec’s predictions for 2017 and beyond Written by Ray Shaw Rogue nations will be financed by cybercrime, the used of undetectable file-less malware (firmware) will grow, IoT devices are fair and easy game, HTTPS/SSL will… Read more... Mobile data traffic soaring to new heights, says Juniper Written by Peter Dinham Mobile data traffic generated by smartphones, tablets, connected cars, and other M2M modules around the world is forecast to reach 129,000 petabytes by 2018, equivalent… Read more... Google caught up in censorship fight in Canada Written by Sam Varghese Google has been caught in an online censorship fight which is going on in Canadian courts even though it was not in any way involved… Read more... BMC innovation suite for AWS in Australia - 'Innovation can no longer only be driven by IT' Written by Ray Shaw BMC’s Innovation Suite enables complex workflow-based app development in the cloud on Amazon Web Services. Read more... Google targeted in phishing attempts: report Written by Sam Varghese A little more than a fifth of phishing threats in the first nine months of this year targeted Google, according to data from the security… Read more... Apple iPhone 6s battery problems much bigger than first thought Written by Ray Shaw Apple iPhone 6s smartphones are shutting down without warning in what is being called the 30% bug. Read more... MacBook Pro with touch bar – serious battery issues confirmed Written by Ray Shaw Apple touts up to 10 hours’ wireless Web, iTunes and movie playback and more on its new MacBook Pro with touch bar. But early adopters… Read more... Israeli firm develops solar tag for smart agriculture Written by Sam Varghese An Internet of Things (IoT) systems and energy harvesting solutions provider has devised an autonomous, wireless solar tag for enabling precision agriculture and smart irrigation. Read more... Samsung scores major blow against Apple in US Supreme Court Written by Ray Shaw Samsung has won a major victory over Apple in the US Supreme Court in the two companies' long running patent dispute over the iPhone design.… Read more... Vocus strikes Alcatel deal to build undersea cable Written by Sam Varghese The Vocus Group has announced a deal with Alcatel Submarine Networks to build the Australia Singapore Cable. Read more... Sponsored Announcements Ballistix improves CPU and GPU performance with top gaming memory Proves fast, easy, and affordable way to up your game SYDNEY, 24 November 2016 – For more than a decade, Ballistix has injected speed and… Read more... If storage were invented today, here’s what it would look like Let us picture the ideal storage platform if the technology were invented today, without limitations, pre-conceived ideas or restrictions. Read more... 2017: SD-WAN advances towards mainstream David Hughes, Founder and CEO of Silver Peak, takes a look at what next year holds for networking technology. Hughes has been awarded more than… Read more... A Bumper Christmas eClub Event Celebrates 20 Years of Offis Multi-Cloud Services Sydney cloud services company Offis is celebrating its twentieth birthday in the only way it knows how: filling a room with some of the smartest… Read more... Yellowfin, La Trobe University launch partnership with analytics challenge award Australian-based global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has officially launched its industry partnership with La Trobe University with the presentation of the… Read more... The Secrets to True Innovation - Amazon Futurist HB Siegel to Visit Australia Amazon may once have been ‘just’ an online bookseller, but how should anyone describe the company today? Its ever-growing retail operation aside, Amazon has also… Read more... |
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