| Today on iTWire | This Morning Valuable, LTE-A friendly 700MHz spectrum up for billion-dollar auction Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Australia’s federal government will auction 2 x 15 MHz of "unallocated 700 MHz" spectrum after previously knocking back Vodafone’s $594 million offer. Read more... Replacement Samsung Note7 phones catching fire in the US Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt The Samsung Note7 Games: Catching Fire is not the name of the latest Hollywood blockbuster but an apparent case of actual reality for replacement Note7s… Read more... Logicalis appoints Chanter to COO role Written by Peter Dinham Logicalis has appointed former Thomas Duryea senior manager, Michael Chanter, as chief operating officer for its Australia business. Read more... HERE app shows the way to go at Melbourne’s Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress Written by Peter Dinham The 7000 delegates to the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress being staged in Melbourne this week will be using an indoor routing and venue mapping… Read more... Verizon bid to get Yahoo! price lowered: report Written by Sam Varghese Verizon is trying to get the price it pays for Yahoo! lowered by US$1 billion following the string of bad news that the latter has… Read more... Yahoo! chief Mayer sued over gender bias claims Written by Sam Varghese Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Mayer has been sued by a former senior executive of the company who has accused her of orchestrating a campaign to… Read more... Skype issues fixed, iTWire editor gets back account Written by Sam Varghese Microsoft has informed iTWire editor-in-chief Stan Beer that it has fixed the problems with his Skype account. Read more... Samba project loses senior developer Written by Sam Varghese The open source Samba project has lost one of its senior contributors with the death of Lars Muller on 1 October. Read more... Bringing DevOps to the mainframe Written by Stephen Withers With the right tools, mainframe developers can be as agile and productive as those on other platforms, according to Compuware. Read more... VIDEO: Wacom wows with own Windows 10 MobileStudio Pro tablets Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Why let Microsoft or Samsung dictate the creative Windows tablet space when the wunderkinds at Wacom can "re-invent" the stylus experience and create their own… Read more... Friday Afternoon Visionstream connects with Chorus NZ contract win Written by Peter Dinham Telecommunications services provider Visionstream has secured a four-year contract with New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, to connect more Chorus’ customers to the country’s… Read more... Selfies not just a form of vanity, study finds Written by Peter Dinham Women are the most prolific posters of selfies on Instagram, way ahead of any other group, but a new research report has knocked on the… Read more... Mobile phone, PC shipments continue decline: Gartner Written by Peter Dinham Worldwide shipments of PCs, mobile phones, tablets and ultramobiles are expected to decline for a second consecutive year, according to the latest devices market report… Read more... Union questions government motives on Triple Zero tender Written by Peter Dinham The federal government’s decision to put the Triple Zero emergency service out to tender signals more cost cutting in telecommunications and health services, according to… Read more... NBN: For pollies, one-upmanship is more important Written by Sam Varghese On Thursday, the NBN Co launched the second of two satellites that will be used to provide broadband access in some regions of Australia where… Read more... Vodafone vrooms in Canberra: major network boost, prepares for 5G Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Canberra’s Vodafone network capacity has had some serious capital applied to give it a major boost, catering for growing data demand. Read more... Google patches 78 Android flaws Written by Sam Varghese Google has released a busload of patches for its Android mobile operating system, with seven of the 78 updates rated as critical. Read more... Lenovo and Fujitsu discuss PC merger Written by Ray Shaw Japanese tech giant Fujitsu’s shares soared on reports that its PC division will merge with Chinese mega-IT giant Lenovo. Read more... Australian firms prioritise data recovery: study Written by Sam Varghese More than four-fifths of Australian organisations surveyed about disaster recovery recently have indicated that they have either implemented or plan to put in place a… Read more... Spotify served malware-laced advertisements Written by Ray Shaw Spotify has become the next hack attack vector as malware-laced advertisements were served to its free users. The issue has since been resolved. Read more... Samsung Galaxy Note 7 - update CPSC and Samsung to investigate Written by Ray Shaw A "replacement" Samsung Galaxy Note7 caught fire on a Southwest Airlines plane in the US on 5 October. iTWire reported that here. Read more... Optus Mobile – not hacked Written by Ray Shaw The Sydney Daily Telegraph reported a hack on Optus Mobile yesterday, allegedly enabling hackers to take over control of at least 170 users phones to… Read more... Microsoft's Skype locks out iTWire editor-in-chief Written by Sam Varghese Login issues at Skype have bitten iTWire, with editor-in-chief Stan Beer being told his account has been suspended. After 16 hours of waiting, he is… Read more... Data loss services: Microsoft leads all the way Written by Sam Varghese When you have data you want to get rid of forever, whom are you going to call? There's one sure place to go: Redmond. You… Read more... Sponsored Announcements BI vendor Yellowfin ramps momentum in Asia Pacific with seven additional channel partners Singapore and Australia, Friday 7th, October, 2016 – Yellowfin, a global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, today announced it has signed agreements with… Read more... MGTS appointed to distribute NX Witness in Australia Network Optix, America’s fastest growing software company, has appointed MGTS as a distributor for Nx Witness in the Australian market. Read more... Focused alliance pays customer loyalty dividends for ICT Networks and Juniper Networks A highly focused, long-term alliance between Sydney-based ICT Networks and Juniper Networks continues to yield dividends in terms of customer loyalty driving business expansion. Read more... Vodafone’s Iñaki Berroeta to look at the ‘future of mobile’ in TelSoc Charles Todd oration Vodafone Australia chief executive Iñaki Berroeta will be the latest of a long-list of high profile ICT industry and business leaders to give the Telecommunications… Read more... Yellowfin’s Business Analytics Workflow a “welcome development” for BI industry says Devlin Yellowfin’s introduction of a unique Business Analytics Workflow within its Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software platform – to facilitate superior collaboration between data analysts… Read more... BI software vendor Yellowfin to host data driven marketing Webinar series Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, is set to host a series of educative Webinars on data-driven marketing best practices throughout Wednesday… Read more... |
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