"We guarantee to cut your Amazon bill in half" if you move databases from AWS database management services to Oracle Autonomous Database running on Oracle Cloud, Oracle chief technology officer and chairman Larry Ellison has told the company's annual conference, Oracle Open World.

Oracle's second generation cloud features "Star Wars cyber defences with 'impenetrable barriers' and 'autonomous robots'," the company's chief technology officer and chairman Larry Ellison claims. Impenetrable Larry? A bold claim indeed in this day and age.

There are now more than one billion fixed broadband subscribers worldwide the Broadband Forum revealed today at Broadband World Forum 2018, according to the Q2 2018 Point Topic Report,

A new solution launched at Broadband World Forum 2018 promises to "halve blowing costs per fibre for FTTx deployments with rapid installation". Hopefully NBN Co was paying attention!

The first grid scale battery in Victoria has been officially commissioned in Ballarat as part of the Victorian Government’s $50 million energy storage initiative in partnership with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.

Ok, so we don't have a screen above 6-inches, while the processor isn't the most powerful, but Kogan has launched the latest model in its ultra-affordable Android smartphone and for the price of $169, it's impressive!

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