Australian telecoms infrastructure provider Vocus has partnered with Google to build Australia Connect, a 42,500 km high-capacity submarine network linking to Australia’s north, east and west coasts.



New Zealand state-owned bank and financial services provider Kiwibank has been fined $1.5million after pleading guilty to systemic and long-running breaches of the Fair Trading Act that led to 35,000 customers being overcharged a total amount of $6.8 million.

French telecommunications provider Orange will partner with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI Large Language models (LLMs) to understand regional languages in Africa that today are not understood by any GenAI model.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the cusp of transformative growth that will bring innovations in AI agents, edge computing, and sustainable energy solutions by 2025. We present three bold predictions for next year by LogicMonitor.

Despite a broad downturn amongst all automation suppliers, the Australian and New Zealand markets held up well for Rockwell in 2024. iTWire sat down with Scott Wooldridge, President, Asia Pacific, Rockwell Automation to discuss the company’s performance in Asia Pacific and beyond.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire