A decision by auDA, the body responsible for the .au namespace, to change domains from .com.au to au has riled members of the organisation to such an extent that they are now calling for the chief executive and three board members to resign.

The IT sector has been cast as the “real corporate game changer” for business in Australia, with the latest report on executive demand in the sector showing a 9% increase for March over February, with New South Wales and the ACT the clear leaders.

NBN Co is ramping up its planned Fibre-to-the-Curb (FTTC) footprint, with 440,000 homes and businesses to receive the new technology.

Technology spending in Australia is forecast to grow 2.3% to reach A$84.5 billion in 2018, as the latest forecasts for global technology spending have been revised upwards by 1.8% to 6.2% - or US3.7 trillion for 2018.

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is the first academic institution to work with SAS and Cisco in a global Internet of Things (IoT) partnership, creating a new research and teaching facility, the UTS-SAS-Cisco IoT Innovation Lab.

HP has had a lot of practice with its x360 range of notebooks and ultrabooks that can swivel the screen all the way back to make a tablet over the years, and its latest 1020 G2 model is very smooth and evolved example.

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