BMD Group and enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) provider TechnologyOne have joined forces in a new seven-year, $17 million partnership that will see the nation’s “largest privately owned civil contractor” invest in a major technology upgrade to transform and power a pipeline of approximately $2bn of projects in Australia every year.



The cyberthreat landscape has reached a new level of commercialisation and convenience for would-be attackers, with nearly all barriers to entry for committing cybercrime removed through the expansion of cybercrime-as-a-service, according to a new report from one cybersecurity company.

Audio and video brand EPOS studied the impact of poor audio quality on the productivity of remote workers. The research found that poor audio quality needs our brains to work harder to process information, and that the brain undergoes significant strain when struggling to process digital audio when compared to sounds in a physical environment.

In a sign that the economy may be weighing on EU countries, a recently completed 5G spectrum auction in the Eastern European nation of Romania yielded what many are seeing as a disappointing result.

Market research, customer experience, and employee experience technology provider Forsta has appointed Henry Pooley to the role of managing director for the Asia Pacific region.

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Stan Beer, newsletter editor, iTWire



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