Australia’s largest startup event StartCon 2019 was held over the weekend, with featured speakers including the legendary security entrepreneur John McAfee. iTWire stalwart Alex Zaharov-Reutt presents two new video interviews of the event.

A degree may no longer be enough in the eyes of an employer as organisations prioritise technical and soft skills to further their business transformation goals, according to new research which reveals that hiring managers forecast it will be more challenging to find qualified professionals in the coming five years - despite 68% of the Australian population holding a qualification.

Credit ratings agency S&P Global Ratings has said it does not expect 5G fixed wireless broadband networks to replace the NBN in the near-to-medium term, due to heavy capital spending and the fact that some players were stretched financially.

Database vendor Oracle's E-Business Suite is at risk due to vulnerabilities discovered in December last year, and which could give attackers full control over a company's enterprise resource planning solution.

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has chosen Dell Technologies to supply the needed technology for boosting its cloud infrastructure, with the US firm to help increase memory by a factor of five and storage by a factor of 25.

Twenty four Australian university students will set off for China this weekend to take part in the Huawei Seeds for the Future program which gives STEM undergraduates an opportunity to learn about China and to experience China telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei’s global business.

Global ratings agency S&P Global Ratings has forecast that IT spending will grow between 2% and 3% in the year ahead, an improvement from 2019.

Tasmanian web developer MyTyreSite says it is expanding its services nationally and internationally through its adoption of the NBN enterprise ethernet solution from communications provider TasmaNet.

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