Today on iTWire | This Afternoon Optus expands availability of SatSleeve for remote area travel Written by Peter Dinham Travelling around remote and isolated areas of Australia for sightseeing or for work often means no mobile phone network signal and the average Joe doesn’t… Read more... Google’s Gmail takes mantle as Australia's ‘most-used’ email ahead of Microsoft Outlook Written by Peter Dinham The battle for marketshare by the major email providers has seen Google’s Gmail leap ahead of Microsoft’s Outlook to become the most-used email service in… Read more... Could a kettle be the weak link in your network security? Written by Stephen Withers A live hack at the BlackBerry Security Summit provided a graphic demonstration of the perils of allowing unvetted connected devices onto your network. Read more... Giuliani calls for cybersecurity push Written by Stephen Withers Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani made a surprise appearance at the BlackBerry Security Summit, warning of the rapid growth of cybercrime and cyberterrorism. Read more... Acquia speeds up web development with Lightning Written by Sam Varghese The Boston-based open source company Acquia has launched Lightning, an easy-to-use version of its customised content management software which is built with Drupal as the… Read more... Seagate’s Guardians of the storage galaxy Written by Ray Shaw Leading storage solutions provider Seagate Technology has unveiled a range of 10TB high capacity drives dubbed the Guardian Series. Read more... We do have a handset plan: BlackBerry CEO Written by Stephen Withers "We do have a plan" for our handset business, BlackBerry executive chairman and CEO John Chen told customers, analysts and media at the BlackBerry Security… Read more... Microsoft pushes Edge using power-efficiency as bait Written by Sam Varghese Microsoft is trying to push Windows 10 users to do their browsing with its new Edge browser, by sending them so-called Windows Tips that the… Read more... Deception – the best offense against cyber attack Written by Ray Shaw We have all heard is hundreds of times – a network breach is inevitable. Relentlessly persistent and patient cyber criminals – aided by leading-edge machine… Read more... Xbox One S – the better One in every way (video) Written by Ray Shaw Console gaming is far from dead despite Microsoft including high levels of Xbox support in its Windows 10. The new Xbox One S, 4K is… Read more... This Morning VIDEO Interview: Zscaler's CISO Michael Sutton talks cloud security and more Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Zscaler chief information security officer Michael Sutton is in Australia for a CISO Round Table and to meet customers, and he spoke to iTWire about… Read more... SkyBus, Spark NZ partner on Auckland Airbus Wi-Fi service Written by Peter Dinham Melbourne-based bus operator, SkyBus, which acquired Auckland Airbus in October last year, is using New Zealand’s Spark Digital, a subsidiary of telco Spark, to provide… Read more... Netflix and Amazon to see revenues doubling to ‘US$35 billion by 2021’ Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt The gurus at Juniper Research say users are rushing ‘to migrate from linear TV services’ which should see Netflix and Amazon revenues ‘more than double,… Read more... SimpliVity taps Pat Devlin as new regional leader for A/NZ Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Former Ruckus Wireless managing director Pat Devlin has joined SimpliVity in a newly created role of regional leader for A/NZ to "drive enterprise and mid-market… Read more... Alibaba setting up in Australia as it readies for ANZ market push Written by Peter Dinham Giant Chinese online retailer, Alibaba, is to open its first Australian office later this year as part of its global strategy to create opportunities for… Read more... IoTAA to pursue opportunities for industry, economy from the IoT Written by Peter Dinham The Internet of Things Alliance Australia (IoTAA) coalition of industry and government stakeholders has been launched as a not-for-profit group to develop opportunities presented by… Read more... Govt still to reconfirm election promise on NBN FttN Tassie west coast rollout Written by Peter Dinham Residents of Tasmania’s west coast are still expecting the National Broadband Network to be delivered to the region over a fibre-to-the-node network, rather than via… Read more... Nuix unlocks dark data Written by Ray Shaw Dark data is unstructured, untagged and untapped data that is found in data repositories and has not been analysed or processed. It is similar to… Read more... US start-up arrives in Queensland to take up Hot DesQ Written by Ray Shaw QUT’s Creative Enterprise Australia (CEA) has been selected by US virtual reality start-up, TimeLooper, as its debut APAC base. Read more... Aussie students return from NASA Space School Written by Ray Shaw The largest contingent ever of Australian students have returned from the Houston Association for Space and Science Education (HASSE) Space School in the US. Read more... Gotta Klick’em all at Klika: GO Pokéklika?! Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Australian online retailer Klika has been stoked by the poking of Pokémon GO players, not only click-and-collecting their orders but catching all the Pokémon lurking… Read more... Technology hasn't disrupted the truth, it has provided a new coat of paint Written by Sam Varghese There are many evils attributed to the Internet and the rise of publishing on the Web, but none quite so astounding as those claimed by… Read more... Canon brings next-generation multifunction devices to market Written by Peter Dinham Canon has released its next-generation multifunctional devices, the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5500i Series, in the Australian market. Read more... Wishart takes up new CIO role at KPMG Written by Peter Dinham Professional services firm KPMG has appointed former UXC executive Craig Wishart as its new Australian chief information officer. Read more... With Friends like these, LG can defeat all action cameras Written by Ray Shaw Who ever heard of an action camera with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 processor, built-in LTE connectivity, video at up to 120fps, native clients for YouTube,… Read more... Sponsored Announcements Human Centric Innovation in Action: Fujitsu World Tour, Sydney July 21st and Brisbane July 26th Following the great feedback from previous years we will be hosting Fujitsu World Tour 2016 in Australia again this year. Read more... BizData — MAPA 2016 Finalist [MELBOURNE, VICTORIA], — BizData has again been named a finalist in the 2016 MAPA Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for the category of Excellence… Read more... DataCore Parallel Server Rockets Past All Competitors, Setting the New World Record for Storage Performance Measured Results are Faster than the Previous Top Two Leaders Combined, yet Costs Only a Fraction of Their Price in Head-to-head Comparisons Validated by the… Read more... DataCore Up-scales Its Record-Breaking Hyper-converged Performance with Multi-node Highly Available Server SAN Achieving the Fastest Response Time and Best Price-Performance for a Highly Available Software-Defined Hyper-converged Solution, DataCore Proves Its SANsymphony™ Parallel I/O Software on Off-the-Shelf Hardware… Read more... Acresta launches Acresta Digital to offer Digital Experience solutions Enterprise solutions provider Acresta has announced that it has acquired Interactive First, a provider of social media and digital engagement solutions. The newly established Acresta… Read more... Volpara Solutions (ASX:VHT) integrates Yellowfin Business Intelligence into its Cloud-Based Analytic Melbourne-based global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has announced that its platform has been integrated into Volpara Solutions’ world-first cloud-based analytics product,… Read more... |
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