| Today on iTWire | This Morning Uber and competitors aside, Cabcharge sees ‘substantial' opportunities ahead for growth Written by Peter Dinham Taxi payments company Cabcharge sees substantial opportunities for growth in taxi, rideshare and hire car trips in the current Australian market for these services, markets… Read more... Productivity Commission recommends emergency services use commercial networks Written by Peter Dinham The federal government has accepted the Productivity Commission’s recommendations on public safety mobile broadband (PSMB) requiring emergency services to use commercial mobile networks. Read more... Activ8me hits 20,000 mark with NBN skymuster satellite connections Written by Peter Dinham Activ8me, the largest services provider to the National Broadband Network Sky Muster satellite, has now connected 20,000 customers to the satellite, doubling the number of… Read more... Panel seeks changes in ABS' privacy impact assessments Written by Sam Varghese The Senate Economics Reference Committee has recommended that any privacy impact assessment into the census should be handled by an external party and the outcome… Read more... 13CABS launches new app, booking system Written by Sam Varghese Taxi service provider 13CABS has launched a new mobile app and an improved booking system that will allow a driver to see a passenger's destination… Read more... ‘Sop to Telstra’ says CCC in angry reaction to proposed changes to anti-competitive telecoms laws Written by Peter Dinham Telecommunications competition law changes proposed by the federal government would "gut protections" from anti-competitive conduct by Telstra, and “fly in the face of almost universal… Read more... Government to do away with telecoms anti-competitive laws Written by Peter Dinham The federal government is repealing telecommunications anti-competitive laws originally imposed nearly 20 years ago to support the development of competition in the telecommunications sector. Read more... Govt slammed over 'intimidation' on Medicare website Written by Sam Varghese The activist group GetUp has slammed the federal government over its threat to an elderly man who runs a website called Save Medicare where he… Read more... ACCC says property group misled over online reviews Written by Sam Varghese The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken Meriton Property Services to the Federal Court over what it claims is misleading or deceptive conduct in… Read more... Thursday Afternoon ShoreTel beefs up ANZ management with restructure of business Written by Peter Dinham Communications solutions provider ShoreTel has announced a raft of new management appointments for its Australian and New Zealand business. Read more... Melbourne man’s infringement of copyright, IP costs him $196,000 Written by Peter Dinham GlobalX, a provider of IT services and solutions to the legal industry, has applauded the business ethics of rival firm, SAI Global, who successfully sued… Read more... Will our iPhone prices get Trumped? Written by Stephen Withers One analyst has suggested that the rest of the world may have to pay for the additional cost of manufacturing iPhones in the US triggered… Read more... Ericsson releases NFV infrastructure solution Written by Peter Dinham Global communications services provider Ericsson has launched its verified Network Functions Virtualisation infrastructure (NFVi) solution with multivendor capabilities and a transformation service offering. Read more... Another 21 CSPs join Equinix Cloud Exchange Written by Stephen Withers The range of services available via Equinix Cloud Exchange has increased substantially, thanks to the addition of 21 more CSPs. Read more... Sponsored Announcements Yellowfin, La Trobe University launch partnership with analytics challenge award Australian-based global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has officially launched its industry partnership with La Trobe University with the presentation of the… Read more... The Secrets to True Innovation - Amazon Futurist HB Siegel to Visit Australia Amazon may once have been ‘just’ an online bookseller, but how should anyone describe the company today? Its ever-growing retail operation aside, Amazon has also… Read more... Which JavaScript Framework is Best for You? A JavaScript framework has become one of the preferred backbones in building a website. As it would be nigh on impossible to evaluate all of… Read more... Influential Futurist H.B. Siegel (Pixar/ILM/Amazon) Comes to Sydney H.B. Siegel’s current job title of Principal Investigator might sound rather mundane, like some kind of local school inspector. However, once you learn his employer… Read more... Analytics vendor Yellowfin to enable infographics and beautiful dashboards with 7.3 launch Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has positioned itself as the leading modern BI platform for creating code-free analytical applications, purpose-built analytic… Read more... Mobileum acquired by Audax Private Equity Leading telco and big data analytics company Mobileum has been acquired by Boston Massachusetts-based private equity firm Audax in a deal which Mobileium says will… Read more... |
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